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Wolfram Alpha, on [[TV Tropes]] }}
 
[http://www.wolframalpha.com Wolfram Alpha] is a "computational knowledge engine", which in [[Layman's Terms|layman's terms]] means it's a computer you ask things and it tells you.
 
Yes, [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|it knows the answer]].
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** What does [[Pulp Fiction|Marcellus Wallace]] look like?
** [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|African or European swallow?]]
* [[Hiroshima Asas 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]]