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		amohr on July 9, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces Actually, with unit conversions, the solution is often parenthesis. http://www07.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+attoparsec+%2F+%28m... totally works

fhars on July 9, 2009 [–]

This was the point of the article. The natural language query interface doesn't work, the user has to divine the interpretation the system will ascribe to his query.

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