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Wolfram Alpha

de rlsinclair, 2009-majo-19

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rlsinclair (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 12:26:19

I have just looked up “Esperanto” in the new “Wolfram Alpha”.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

It says “place of Origin - France”

I am not impressed.

tommjames (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 12:29:29

rlsinclair:I have just looked up “Esperanto” in the new “Wolfram Alpha”.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

It says “place of Origin - France”

I am not impressed.
It also says 2000 speakers and 0 native speakers. Even less impressive!

jan aleksan (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 12:43:03

No source provided. how can it be trusted?... it seems like a kind of propaganda...

nshepperd (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 13:08:06

Hmmm a bit of an error there. I'm pretty sure Zamenhof wasn't French! But it's pretty cool seeing the character frequencies and average translation length...

Hmmm, estas ero de misaĵo tie! Mi pensas ke Zamenhof'o ne estis franca! Sed vidi la literajn frekvencojn kaj longecoj de tradukaĵojn estas iomete bone(?)...

ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 13:52:54

Mi pensas ke la aŭtoro de tion estis TRE laca kiam li/ŝi skribis ĝin - I think the author of that was VERY tired when he wrote it.

jan aleksan (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 14:24:35

well, if you type "ido", it find nothing, and "interlingua" is dead. So 2000 people is not so bad ... okulumo.gif

Ironchef (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 14:32:25

rlsinclair:I have just looked up “Esperanto” in the new “Wolfram Alpha”.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

It says “place of Origin - France”

I am not impressed.
I had exactly the same reaction last night when I entered it. Just proves again that you cannot believe everything you read online. I constantly remind my kids that Wikipedia is a great tool but should be used carefully. I've found errors in printed books too so nothing is perfect ridulo.gif I think this new tool has value though; so we'll see how it works out.

Rogir (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 15:04:26

Native speakers of Dutch: 12.36 million in the Netherlands (2000 estimate). And we had a population of 16 million then, with less than a million immigrants. I don't think Wolfram should have released these figures if they are so cleary incorrect.

Matthieu (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 16:16:20

Funny, the first thing I searched when I found out this site was Esperanto. lango.gif I sent a message to report the mistakes…

By the way, I'm pretty sure they're wrong about French too: 64.86 million speakers? There are 65 million people in France, and French is spoken in many more countries. (And according to them, 79% of France population speak it… This would be very surprising.)

andogigi (Montri la profilon) 2009-majo-19 18:45:34

Consider the source. Stephen Wolfram is known for having invented Mathematica, but he is a bit of an exhibitionist along the lines of P.T. Barnum. His book, "A New Kind of Science" was billed as being so revolutionary that it would rival Newton's Principia. When most mathematicians read it, they yawned. From what little I've seen of his search engine, it looks like another yawn.

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