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Wolfram Alpha

de rlsinclair, 19 mai 2009

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Langue: English

rlsinclair (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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 (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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 (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 12:43:03

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

nshepperd (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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 (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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 (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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 (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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 (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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 (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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 (Voir le profil) 19 mai 2009 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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