Re: Mathematica 8 "natural language" capabilities
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- Subject: [mg114016] Re: Mathematica 8 "natural language" capabilities
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:25:25 -0500 (EST)
No, an expression created with a single leading equal sign also invokes a call over the Internet to WolframAlpha. On 11/19/2010 5:11 AM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > Jason: > > A single introductory equals sign (without Ctrl) allows natural > language queries of the kernel. Two introductory equals signs allow > natural language queries of Wolfram Alpha. Ctrl+== is used to modify > previously-entered queries. > > Best, > > Harvey > > -----Original Message----- > From: J. McKenzie Alexander [mailto:jalex at lse.ac.uk] > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 7:09 AM > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg113965] Mathematica 8 "natural language" capabilities > > 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 > > ==09WolframAlpha["plot sin x and cos x"] > > I get the output I would expect. > > Many thanks, > > Jason > > -- > Dr J. McKenzie Alexander > Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method > London School of Economics and Political Science > Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE > > > > > Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic > communications disclaimer: > http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/planningAndCorporatePolicy/legalandComp > lianceTeam/legal/disclaimer.htm > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305