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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
>
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