May 27, 2009

Wolfram Alpha

Finally, a replacement for my Excel-as-a-calculator habit: http://www.wolframalpha.com

It does all sorts of fun math!

There's quite some potential here. It's definitely an alpha product, with kinks and large gaps. But it's nice getting straight answers instead of links. I'm especially impressed by the music and demography portions. With a single click, I can hear a C minor scale while reading the notation, or find out how many people in the US have "Kim" as a last name (194,067 per the 2000 US Census).

1 comment:

Stupid Cupid Commandant said...

I agree with you on the alpha part...the syntax is kind of killing me, but I imagine that will improve