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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Unit Discovery: Is this some sort of a sick joke?
Alright, let's have some fun here. I am essentially following the documentation by Wolfram, just looking at different quantities.
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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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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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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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How to get Company Logo or Image
I can see that companies have a logo in Wolfram|Alpha when I type in their name but I can't get them in Mathematica.
For example searching for Apple, Inc. in W|A one of the outputs is the Apple logo. ...
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Proteins, ProteinData, WolframAlpha
Apologies in advance, this is the first I've messed with ProteinData and access through WolframAlpha, so clearly I may not know ...
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Is it a bug in Limit?
Bug introduced in 9.0 and fixed in 10.0.0 and reintroduced in 11.2
Mathematica 9 on Windows and WolframAlpha says
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All the food WolframAlpha knows about
I want to plot some nutritional values and do some computation with it.
Is there an analogue of CountryData[] to get a list of all the foods for which WA has ...
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Flying to Australia
I want to compare different flight routes to Australia and their lengths. So far I have written:
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I use WolframAlpha within Mathematica; would there be any advantage to buy Wolfram|Alpha PRO?
Our mathematics department provides us with the student edition of Mathematica $10.3.1.0$ and I often use the WolframAlpha["query"] command to use Wolfram|Alpha ...
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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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A femme is a wife is a Frau
As can be seen from
LanguageData["Properties"] // Multicolumn
Mathematica's translation capabilities seem to be very limited. It can translate month names, ...
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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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Check remaining Wolfram|Alpha calls
As Wolfram|Alpha calls are limited, and on the other side increasingly frequent, I'd like to be able to check how many calls am I able to make at a given time. Is there a function or system variable ...
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Why does Mathematica's date for the battle Agincourt differ from the US Navy's?
If I ask Mathematica for the Julian Date for the battle of Agincourt with
WolframAlpha["battle of agincourt date"]
it reports ...
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Differing answers when comparing Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica v.10.2
Out of curiousity, please consider following expression:
Sum[(-1)^(n + 1)/n, {n, 1, 100000}]
When evaluated using Wolfram Alpha:
Result: ...
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Suppress connection to Wolfram|Alpha when making unit conversions
I want to speed up calculations with unit conversions. I suspect primarily that some units evaluate from Wolfram|Alpha. Any way to prevent this automatically, so that Mathematica throws errors/...
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Automatically grouping words into categories
Say I have a comma-separated list of words. For example sake, let it be things I have seen during my trip to a safari zone. It would look something like that:
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How to extract a possible closed form from WolframAlpha[] output
To find a possible closed form of a number, I can use the function
WolframAlpha["6.38905609893065", IncludePods -> "PossibleClosedForm"]
It returns a result ...
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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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Getting FTSE indices in Mathematica
I'm not sure if this is the best StackExchange to post this question, but I figured it had more to do with the specifics of Mathematica than Quantitative Analysis so I've posted it here.
Basically, I ...
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Need a generalization of RootApproximant to recognize linear combinations over algebraic numbers
RootApproximant does a very good job when I need to recognize an algebraic number and when enough of its digits are known (or even when an unlimited number of ...
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Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha - Long data series [duplicate]
Let's say I want a long series of data with the Mexican peso / US dollar exchange rate. The old code I used back in the day was
FinancialData["USD/MXN", All]
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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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Returning computable numbers from WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha["Apple company revenue", {{"Result", 1}, "Plaintext"}]
Desired output
182800000000
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Convert WolframAlpha output to $\LaTeX$
I am using WolframAlpha app on my iPad and would like to confirm that there is no way to convert its output to $\LaTeX$ form?
It would be nice to have this feature so as to copy it to Stack Exchange ...
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Exporting results containing Entities to JSON?
I am looking for a straightforward way to export results from functions like ImageContents, FacialFeatures, and WolframAlpha - symbols that return stuff containing knowledgebase content.
Aside from ...
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How can I find the source of data of a wolfram alpha query?
If in Mathematica I type, for example:
==Sun mass
Wolfram Alpha gives me lots of data (mass in kg, lb, sun radius, temperature...):
but where do they come from? ...
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Problem to plot GDP data coming from Wolfram Alpha
I'm working with economic data and realized that I could extract it directly from WolframAlpha using _Mathematica.
So I did it. I extracted the GDP data of the country I'm studying.
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Recreating map from Wolfram|Alpha with GeoGraphics
I have tried to create a map using GeoGraphics, and I have not been able to get one with the same quality as the result Wolfram|Alpha gave me.
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How to ask WolframAlpha to find 'x such that p=32*x+1 is prime'
I want to find prime $p$ in form of $p=32 x+1$
How can I ask WolframAlpha for such $x$ that will fulfil this equation?
EDIT: let's say that $100$ or $n$ solutions is enough for me
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Step by Step for Generalized Eigenvectors?
When I do
WolframAlpha["Eigensystem[{{1,-3},{3,-5}}]", PodStates -> {"Step-by-step solution"}]
It only shows steps for non-generalized ...
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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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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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Nonsense Data with Wolfram Alpha + Mathematica?
I am trying to learn how to interface with WolframAlpha. When I try using the Mathematica interface I get nonsensical data. I don't know if this is a bug or if I'm doing it wrong.
My goal is to ...
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Confusion in finding the definite integral
So, I'm new to Mathematica. I tried evaluating the following definite integral. However the answer i get from wolfram alpha & mathematica are different.
Can someone please point out what I'm ...
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Is it possible to simulate a solved example in Wolfram for free, How?
How we can write the following Formula in Wolfram:
The Fourier Series
$$ f(x)=f(x+2\pi), f(x) =\left\{
\begin{array}{rcr}
1 & & -\pi <x<0 \\
\sin x & & 0<x<...
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WolframAlpha function does not return structure diagram for chemicals
Neither one of
WolframAlpha["Caffeine"]
WolframAlpha["Caffeine","FullOutput"]
returns a structure diagram for the molecule. It's consistent since ...
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Strange message appearing when using Wolfram Alpha in Mathematica
I have Mathematica 9.0.1.0 and I've recently noticed that whenever I press the equals sign and type something like Sech[x]^2, I get the message:
I then tried other search queries, such as p^2, ...
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How can I analyse Mathematica data using Wolfram|Alpha?
How can I analyse data stored in Mathematica using Wolfram | Alpha? Here is an example:
I have a list: a = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
I can plot it in Mathematica, like ...
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WolframAlpha Selective SubPod Content
I am sending queries to Wolfram | Alpha from Mathematica V9 and and importing the results back into Mathematica, but I am running into a challenge in formatting the request. Specifically, I would like ...
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Adding Entities to AirportData[]
Mathematica's AirportData[] is hopelessly outdated.
I'm trying to manually add entries for some common ICAO airport codes, such as OTHH (Doha) or FAOR (Johannesburg)...
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Why some alpha + Evaluate return Pod, some return only return an Entity?
Why some alpha + Evaluate return Pod, some return only return an Entity?
Here is an example
One guess is some direct match/index will return a Entity, if with some NLP of Input, then will return Pod
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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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