I seem to have inadvertently discovered a way to make Wolfram Alpha unavailable to me, at least for a little while.
At first I input a typical divide by zero, 1/0, it returned quickly enough with the expected response.
Then through the miracle of copy-and-paste I input the following into the search box:
1/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0
In response, I eventually got this back:
I guess as far as Wolfram Alpha goes, if you can't dazzle it with brilliance...
7 comments:
lol great find! http://wolfa.com/input/?i=1/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0 i had to try it and same thing! i guess dividing by "infinity" takes too long and is incomputable... poor little wolf, you messed with its brain
Jaja, i´ve tried it too!!!! we are evil!!! go tell google!!!! hahaha
You may be wondering, "why doesn't it just detect that it won't be able to finish the problem and tell you that?"
That, my friend, is the Halting Problem.
That should be fascinatingly easy for a computer to solve.
Multiple fractions should always be reduced out in pairs to a multiply before they are resolved.
What fail.
Someone posted this to reddit. then the link 404'd
does wolfram alpha had a partnership with conde naste?
Don't use wolfa.com as the domain name. It is fake and not registered to WolframAlpha.com. There is a good change it will be redirected to some malware server at some point in the future.
wolfa.com isn't wolframalpha.com. It's an illegal mirror site.
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