Questions tagged [wolfram-alpha-queries]
Use this for questions about calling Wolfram Alpha from Mathematica. Questions about Wolfram Alpha itself are off-topic.
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How to create a new "person curve"?
Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collection¹ of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha["person curve"] into a Mathematica ...
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Roughly how many times per day may WolframAlpha[] be used?
The integration of Wolfram|Alpha seems to be one of the (many!) major features of Mathematica 8. Earlier I was reading this Wolfram Blog archive and noticed quite a few articles talking about the use ...
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Can Mathematica solve functional equations with nested variable?
First, inline free form input can solve these equations:
But it seems no native Mathematica function can solve these, there is even an error page for equations of this form (nestdv).
Now my ...
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Getting all physical units with prefixes
How we can get the list with all physical units and prefixes from WolframAlpha and make symbols from the result to be equal their corresponding quantities like described in this post?
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How can I get all the results from a Wolfram | Alpha query?
When I query Wolfram | Alpha with "city in orange county, california", it returns the first four results with a note that there are "42 total". I can then hit the "more" button until all 42 are ...
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Why doesn't Mathematica provide an answer while Wolfram|Alpha does, concerning a series convergence?
Among other series I've been working on, I was asked to find whether
$$\sum_n 1-\cos(\frac{\pi}{n})$$
converged, and Mathematica's output to ...
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Showing steps for TrigExpand
If I enter a double equal sign and the following in Mathematica 10:
== integrate 1/(1+x^4)
Then wolfram alpha allows me to select a Step-by-step solution, which ...
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How can one expand an arbitrary boolean combination into the $2^n$ atoms of the associated boolean algebra of size $2^{2^n}$?
The answer of user250938 to Can one usefully apply the Boolean functions of Mathematica to measurable Boolean sets? and the second comment of
Monroe Eskew to the answer to https://mathoverflow.net/...
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Calculating double integral bounded by domain in Wolfram Alpha Notebook [closed]
If I want to compute Double Integral on a given region(See attached Picture)
How can I input this on Wolfram Alpha Notebook
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Mathematica gives wrong result while Wolfram|Alpha is correct
Why does Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha give different results based upon the same code?
I know Wolfram|Alpha's 7.85 is correct.
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How can I disable system updates only?
Suppose I'm quite happy with my current Mathematica installation and wish to keep the system in its current form just reliably working.
Since there were already at least two cases[1,2] when a lot of ...
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W|A or Mathematica for CountryData?
Sometimes W|A gives you something ...
WolframAlpha["electricity production of the United States in 2007", "Result"]
... not available in the WDF
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How to make a picture grid of all Nobel Laureates in physics?
I want to make a picture grid of all Nobel Laureates in physics using mathematica. Later I wanna print this picture grid on a big wall!
The first thought I came up with is to exploit the powerful ...
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Interactive steam tables and phase diagrams in Mathematica
I teach an undergraduate course in Thermodynamics and I would love to use Mathematica to demonstrate the various engineering processes that involve the expansions and compressions of steam and common ...
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Wolfram says sum diverges, but Mathematica gives a numerical value for infinite sum [closed]
Take this sum for example:
$$\sum_{n=2}^\infty\frac1{\log(n!)}$$
Wolfram says that this does not converge by the comparison test. However, when I use Mathematica's ...
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Problems getting clean sunrise, sunset, civil, nautical and astronomical twilight data
If in a notebook you enter:
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Is the Wolfram | Alpha output in Mathematica not Alpha Pro?
Mathematica 8 includes "Wolfram | Alpha integration", but the features of Alpha available in Mathematica seem not to include many of those available in the "Pro" version of Alpha.
Does Mathematica 8 ...
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In finding a logarithmic fit for some data (of the form a*Log[b*x]), WolframAlpha succeeds where Mathematica 7.0 fails, why?
I would like to fit a function of the form: $a \log(b x)$ to a set of data:
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How to change the Wolfram Alpha query timeout for Ctrl+=?
Sometimes retrieving results from Wolfram Alpha takes time and the default query timeout is not sufficient.
For engagement with Wolfram Alpha implicitly for expr ...
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Permanently set options such as metric units for W|A queries
Mathematica lets me be so lazy that I don't even have to switch to a browser to check the weather report:
The only problem is that it will automatically display the temperature and wind speed in ...
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What is the current WolframAlpha server capacity?
Considering the increasing workload WolframAlpha is now receiving as it is getting more tightly integrated into the Wolfram language. With things like Entities even ...
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CloudDeploy fails when using WolframAlpha as APIFunction
I am trying to create a Wolfram API that returns, for an input expression, how Wolfram Alpha interprets that input.
For example, given the string "1 plus 2", the API should return "1 + 2".
Locally, ...
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Obtaining Historical Financial Data
I'm trying to get the historical P/E ratio for a number of securities.
WolframAlpha makes this seem easy:
However, when I try to obtain a subset (or even just a single value) of this information in ...
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How do I use FinancialData to obtain company revenue and income?
I'd like to make a plot of a company's revenue and income over time. I can do this via Wolfram Alpha pretty easily, just by searching "Ford revenue and earnings from 2000 to 2012". As such I can, if ...
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Force expression in certain form
Is there a function in Mathematica to force an expression to be transformed into a given form. For example f[x] is a function of ...
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Find optimal integer solution to linear equation (Wolfram Alpha)
I'm sorry if this is potentially off topic, but I posted this question at the Math SE and they pointed me here. Both SE sites have a tag for Wolfram Alpha, but maybe you guys are better equipped to ...
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Second derivative implicit differentiation using Wolfram Alpha input?
How would you perform second derivative implicit differentiation using Wolfram Alpha input? The reason that I'm using WA input is that it gives you step-by-step solutions and I'm a first year ...
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