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Friday, March 19, 2010

Wolfram/Alpha

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, queues, queued
    Google: queue, queues, queued, found
2. Wolfram: 477 mg
3. 24 years, 1 month, 28 days
4. 11:25 Monday, August 21st, 2017
5. Wolfram: minimum is $306.57, maximum is $629.51
6.
7. 12 (Wolfram)
8. 4,886 miles
9. $40,040/ year
10. 

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