Monday, February 14, 2011

Questions That Only Wolfram|Alpha Can Answer…

1 You meet a distant relative, and discover they are your great-grandfather's sister's grandson's cousin. If you input "great-grandfather's sister's grandson's cousin", it will show you the family tree, tell you the relative is a second cousin once removed and you have a "blood relationship fraction" of 1/128.
2 You want to find the share price of a certain stock on a certain day, so you type: "Price of Nike stock on the day Wayne Rooney was born." The answer is $0.86, and the site also gives you the graph of the stock's performance a year before and a year after 24 October 1985.
3 You wonder how big Walmart is compared with UK GDP. Type "What is Walmart revenue as a fraction of UK GDP?" The answer is 0.186, plus a graph showing the change from 1985 to 2010.
4 You're arguing with friends about last year's blockbuster movies. Type in "Social Network, Inception, Harry Potter And Deathly Hallows box office". You get a timeline of earnings and a list of comparative data on total receipts, rank, screens and average take per screen.
5 What's interesting about the number 76577655163 – randomly plucked from your brain? The website tells you it is a prime number, that it is roughly 0.26 x the number of stars in our galaxy, 0.72 x the number of people who have ever lived and 12 x the number of people alive today."

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