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Wolfram|Alpha



Making the World's Knowledge Computable


Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing..
A few things to try
  • enter any date (e.g. a birth date): june 23, 1988
  • enter any city (e.g. a home town): new york
  • enter any two stocks: IBM Apple
  • enter any calculation: $250 + 15%
  • enter any math formula: x^2sin(x)