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Has anyone actually used wolfram alpha regularly? What did you use it for? Not that I think its dumb (well... maybe I'm a little skeptical), but I just haven't thought of any way to use it.


I don't use it as much as Google or anything, but I find myself there once or twice a week. Usually it's things like geographic info (population, size), currency or timezone conversion, or various other sort of small things like that.

I enjoy it quite a bit, and I should probably use it for many more things.


Do you ever use google calculator? It does all of that only better. When I first tried duckduckgo I kept going back to google for the calculator. Then ddg added(or at least I discovered) !wa to search alpha directly, so now all the stuff I used to use google calculator goes to alpha.




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