April 2012
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Apr 30th
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A submitted WolframFunFact from one of our Twitter followers: The US and China have almost the same total area.  They also have about a billion more people than the United States: Thanks to @BerkeleyBrett for the submission!
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 18th
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Overcoming Artificial Stupidity
Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha, just wrote a great blog post about how Wolfram|Alpha is “on average giving complete, successful responses to more than 90% of the queries entered on its website”. Along the way we saw some great examples of “artificial stupidity: places where Wolfram|Alpha gets the wrong idea, and applies its version of ‘artificial...
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 10th
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To compute, or not to compute?
Wolfram|Alpha can now analyze the plays of Shakespeare!  Learn more on our blog.
Apr 10th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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Wolfram|Alpha can now calculate arc lengths!
Learn more on our blog. 
Apr 4th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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