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Re: Mathematica 8 "natural language" capabilities

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• Subject: [mg113966] Re: Mathematica 8 "natural language" capabilities
• From: "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu>
• Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:11:22 -0500 (EST)
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Type just "=" with not control! You should see the orange equals, then 
you are good to go. Try plot sin xy (shift return, and no space between 
x and y in the xy).

Kevin
On 11/18/2010 7:08 AM, J. McKenzie Alexander wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone been able to get the "natural language" capabilities of Mathematica 8 to work as described? If I type Ctrl+= followed by
>
> =09plot sin x and cos x
>
> as listed in the examples, I get an error message saying that no Mathematica translations exist. Yet if I evaluate
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> =09WolframAlpha["plot sin x and cos x"]
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> I get the output I would expect.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jason
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