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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

WolframAlpha A5

I have been asked to post information about this "knowledge engine on my blog enjoy!

Spend some time looking at wolfram|alpha. Check out the examples to get an idea of what it can do.
Use both wolfram|alpha and google to try and determine the answer to the following questions. For each one, state the answer, and say which tool was the most useful or fastest in finding the answer.

1. All english words containing the letters "eue"
2. How much potassium in 4.7 oz of banana?
3. How old was Barack Obama on the day you were born?
4. Date and time of the next total solar eclipse in Eugene?
5. What is the minimum and maximum price of google stock since it went public?
6. Link an image of the barcode for UPC 01234567890
7. How many vertices does an icosahedron have?
8. Distance from Eugene to Tokyo?
9. Average Oregon income per capita?
10. What is the Morse code for your first name?

1. Wolfram: queue, queued, queues.
Google: found: feued, queue, queued, queueing, queuers, queues

2. Wolfram: A 4.70 oz banana’s potassium content is 477mg and constitutes 14% of daily value.
Google: numerous references to potassium but no specific answer.

3. Wolfram: May 28, 1957 is before Barrack Obama was born.
Google: numerous references but no specific answer.

4. Wolfram: Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 4:52 pm-duration 5 minutes 46 seconds, path width 147 miles.
Google: August 21, 2017

5. Wolfram: Minimum is $306.57 maximum is $629.51
Google: numerous editorial sites
6. Wolfram: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=UPC+01234567890
Google: nothing in the way of specific fact.
7. Wolfram: 12
Google: wikipedia had a quick accurate result.

8. Wolfram: 4886 miles
Google: nothing specific

9. Wolfram: $40,040 per yr
Google: provided a link that reported yearly averages but no aggregate.

10. Wolfram: Leslie in morse code = *-**|*|***|*-**|**|*
Google: found a really cool site called poke my name http://www.pokemyname.com/firstname_843_leslie.htm

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