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May 15, 2009

Please post your funniest Wolfram Alpha Fail...

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about 3 years ago Mikal Leiws responded:

History of Man:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=history+of+man

Shows closing price of man.

about 3 years ago ERIC ROSTON responded:

Search on "Wolfram Alpha" shows release date of "Wolfram Alfa."

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wolfram+alpha

about 3 years ago Michael Arcand responded:

Michael Arcand

Hmmm ... apparently God is in Hungary. Didn't know that, did you?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31271817@N00/3537750124/

about 3 years ago nodster (Twitter) responded:

Gravatar_icon_normal

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gb+gdp+%2F+1

about 3 years ago Sparky McMuttons responded:

Maybe they are correct?...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=studmuffin

about 3 years ago Mark Jeffrey responded:

Mark Jeffrey

I'm pretty sure the phrase "Won't Get Fooled Again" is not applicable :) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=The+Who

about 3 years ago Ted Tschopp responded:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=airspeed+of+an+unladen+African+swallow

about 3 years ago Ted Tschopp responded:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=airspeed+of+an+unladen+European+swallow

about 3 years ago Ted Tschopp responded:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=meaning+of+life

about 3 years ago Adrian responded:

Adrian

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=WALES&a=*DPClash.CityE.WALES-_**Wales.UnitedKingdom.UnitedKingdom--

about 3 years ago demo responded:

how old are you? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+old+are+you

about 3 years ago Michael Arcand responded:

Michael Arcand

Some of these are actually pretty good! It picked up on the European swallow from Monty Python as well as the answer of 42 from Douglas Adams' works! It might not be useful for researching real data, but so far this is quite entertaining.

about 3 years ago Russell responded:

how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll lollipop? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+licks+does+it+take+to+get+to+the+center+of+a+tootsie+roll+lollipop%3F

about 3 years ago Andre responded:

for n=1 to 10 do PrimeQ[n]
(http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=for+n%3D1+to+10+do+PrimeQ[n])

result:
Wolfram|Alpha nie obsługuje jeszcze języka polskiego.
Wolfram|Alpha does not yet support Polish.

uh oh?

about 3 years ago digital mindshare responded:

Search for any baseball pitcher's ERA or "earned run average". Does not compute. Yikes.

about 3 years ago (Facebook) responded:

Inputting "Lost" gave me "mustard gas". I was searching for the TV show.

To be fair to Wolfie, it returned a message "Assuming 'lost' is a chemical compound | Use as a word instead"

When I selected the "word" option, the first definition it gave for "lost" was "people who are destined to die soon." Kind of religious don't you think?

about 3 years ago Kevin responded:

not too shabby so far.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck+chuck+if+a+woodchuck+could+chuck+wood%3F

about 3 years ago adash66 (Twitter) responded:

1721839134_2191ce08c5_s_normal

indeterminate

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=divide+0+by+0

about 3 years ago Al responded:

Apparently Satan is in the Philippines. Wonder if that is the other side of the world from Hungary.

http://www69.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=where+is+satan%3F

about 3 years ago Bob responded:

I hope you realize Wolfram Alpha is not meant to be a web search engine!

about 3 years ago justin webb responded:

here is the link to the launch event.

http://www.justin.tv/clip/2dd6b9f07e7f8a4e

almost 3 years ago introspective responded:

Wolfram Alpha is a good news in the area of search engines. It has some advantages compared to the other search engines. Still, it is not the competition to Google or other search engines, since it uses totally different approach. It is more like dictionary or encyclopedia than search engine.

almost 3 years ago biz responded:

I like Wolfram Alpha. It offers a completely new way of searching for information.

over 2 years ago Jim responded:

@Wolfram_Alpha Equation Fail http://tinyurl.com/y9cusmv

almost 2 years ago Din Freebies responded:

Din Freebies

I like Wolfram Alpha. It offers a completely new way of searching for information.