Debuts tomorrow at USD 2.5 per month.
Awesome!
:smack:
It is USD 2.99 for students and USD 4.99 for full version.
I had a go at Wolfram Alpha for the first time the other day, for what I thought would be a pretty simple query:
List of world countries by population
It gave me the top 10 and the bottom 10 but not any of the others. In the end I resorted to Google/Wikipedia.
Am I doing something wrong or would the full results be in the pro edition?
There’s usually a more or less button in the upper right corner of each box that will let you increase/decrease the results.
The initial results were the top ten. When I clicked the ‘more’ button it gave me the bottom ten!
Clicking on more for me continues to give me a growing list:
So now can I call out “computer! Zoom in and enhance”?
Sure you can.
That, and clicking on more, may help. 
I’ve been pleasantly impressed by how well it works, most of the times I’ve played with it.
-D/a
Interesting, that isn’t how it worked for me a few weeks ago: I got “more” or “less” and the PDF only gave me top and bottom 10 as well. That said it’s a pain having to click it repeatedly - I’d love an “all” button too.
Still, smooth product.
I think they do weekly updates so things are usually being updated/improved. You should send a suggestion on the “all” button. It seems like an obvious oversight.
It loks to me like Alpha has been cut off at the knees to encourage pro take up. Used to be that you were presented with a choice of options to narrow down a search but yesterday I tried an old search as a test, which was the name of the village i grew up in and the only option I got was a film with a similarish name. In the past I got scads of info. The place has its own wiki page for starters.
I don’t think that’s the case. From what I read the pro adds certain features that were not available before. The free site will remain the same. What it sounds like to me is that it’s returning multiple hits for the search term and returning what it thinks is the most relevant. For instance, if you search for “chicago” you’ll get the city but if you look near the top of the results you’ll see options with links to other terms:
Assuming “chicago” is a city | Use as a movie or a periodical or referring to NFL teams instead
That was what I used to get.
Now all I got was the film. Nothing else. No options, nothing.
The film being the same worth but a different first letter.
Maybe your city doesn’t it exist anymore 
What’s the name of it?
Oh, I had forgotten about Wolfram. Hadn’t tried it for ages. Haha, just asked for my old university - it says “assuming it’s an astronomical observatory or a city” I suppose there must be a whole lot of astronomer types using Wolfram. 
And it helpfully gives the nearest airport (well, no, as it’s not an airport for anyone except the air force). And tells me the nearest sea. 
Ooh, that’s cute, somehow. I mean, the sea is something a bit hard to miss, isn’t it? Still, wouldn’t want to get wet 'cos of not being forewarned. 
I love you. I have a picture in my mind of you leaning back in your Herman Miller Aeron, feet perched on the edge of your Cole Office Winnfield Executive Desk (just so, mind you), vodka martini clutched lightly in hand whilst waving it in the general direction of your computer demanding, “Computer, Zoom in and enhance”… while surfing porn.
Just signed up for the trial, and I’ll probably buy it. I admit, I mostly just use Wolfram as a really fancy calculator (the graphs are nice once you get used to the syntax too), but in concept there’s a lot of data I COULD use it to process if I ever get around to it.
That said, I’m saddened that they don’t have any support at the moment for anything in automata theory less complex than a Turing Machine (no Finite State Automata, Pushdown Automata, Mealy Machines, no info on pumping lemma etc). If I could use Wolfram Alpha to construct a Mealy Machine (and especially if I could simulate on input) through some syntax, Wolfram would be my favorite anything ever.