Autarchy of the Private Cave » resource https://bogdan.org.ua Tiny bits of bioinformatics, [web-]programming etc Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:09:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 WolframAlpha: sophisticated online calculations resourcehttps://bogdan.org.ua/2009/06/29/wolframalpha-sophisticated-online-calculations-resource.html https://bogdan.org.ua/2009/06/29/wolframalpha-sophisticated-online-calculations-resource.html#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:59:27 +0000 http://bogdan.org.ua/?p=800 If you ever need to glimpse at the properties of the Poisson distribution with lambda=0.16, or find the factorial of 6163338 (as a gamma function), then Wolfram|Alpha is a perfect tool for you (unless you have some math package at hand).

The motto of Wolfram|Alpha is Making the world’s knowledge computable. Basically, it is like Mathematica plus a growing corpus of factual numeric data, plus a system to interpret user’s input. This is a nice online reference and computation platform.

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