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[[File:wolframalpha-2010052316151708_8935.gif|frame|What TV Tropes looks like to Wolfram Alpha.]] |
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{{quote| ''tvtropes.org (domain)''<br /> |
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''name | designbygus''<br /> |
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''location | Rice Lake, Wisconsin, United States''<br /> |
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''daily page views | ~~ 3.8 million ''<br /> |
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''daily visitors | ~~ 460000''<br /> |
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''site rank | ~~ 4063rd''<br /> |
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''domain online | April 1, 2005 (~~6 years ago)''<br /> |
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''(based on Alexa estimates, as of March 20, 2011)''<br /> |
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''page title | Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms''<br /> |
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''page size | 36.54 kB (excluding images, stylesheets, etc.)''<br /> |
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''links from page | 148 (in HTML)''<br /> |
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''images on page | 16''<br /> |
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''forms on page | 3 (10 input fields)''<br /> |
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Wolfram Alpha, on [[TV Tropes]] }} |
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[http://www.wolframalpha.com Wolfram Alpha] is a "computational knowledge engine", which in [[Layman's Terms]] means it's a computer you ask things and it tells you. |
[http://www.wolframalpha.com Wolfram Alpha] is a "computational knowledge engine", which in [[Layman's Terms]] means it's a computer you ask things and it tells you. |
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Yes, [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|it knows the answer]]. |
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No, it is (probably) not run by [[Angel|demonic lawyers.]] |
No, it is (probably) not run by [[Angel|demonic lawyers.]] |
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* [[A God Am I]]: As evidenced [http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=are+you+God here]. |
* [[A God Am I]]: As evidenced [http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=are+you+God here]. |
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* [[Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure]]: Wolfram Alpha's designed to give units such as these for any answer involving measurements. It doesn't always seem to get the part where such units are supposed to be "well known", though, instead doing things like comparing lengths of time to equinox procession periods. |
* [[Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure]]: Wolfram Alpha's designed to give units such as these for any answer involving measurements. It doesn't always seem to get the part where such units are supposed to be "well known", though, instead doing things like comparing lengths of time to equinox procession periods. |
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* [[Logic Bomb]]: Put in "x iff !x" (x is true if and only if x is false) and it throws out stock numbers for IFF, because that is better than the alternative. |
* [[Logic Bomb]]: Put in "x iff !x" (x is true if and only if x is false) and it throws out stock numbers for IFF, because that is better than the alternative. |
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Latest revision as of 16:54, 3 April 2023
Wolfram Alpha is a "computational knowledge engine", which in Layman's Terms means it's a computer you ask things and it tells you.
Yes, it knows the answer.
No, it is (probably) not run by demonic lawyers.
Wolfram Alpha provides examples of the following tropes:
- Easter Egg/The Dev Team Thinks of Everything: If it is a well-known question from pop culture, it's probably programmed into Wolfram Alpha.
- The aforementioned The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy answer.
- What does Marcellus Wallace look like?
- African or European swallow?
- A God Am I: As evidenced here.
- Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: Wolfram Alpha's designed to give units such as these for any answer involving measurements. It doesn't always seem to get the part where such units are supposed to be "well known", though, instead doing things like comparing lengths of time to equinox procession periods.
- Logic Bomb: Put in "x iff !x" (x is true if and only if x is false) and it throws out stock numbers for IFF, because that is better than the alternative.
- Shown Their Work