[neltnerb]

What do you mean? I used it to solve a nasty impedance network for the real and imaginary components yesterday and the solutions were accurate.

Edit: Maybe it's just good enough that people treat it as a tool and see no need to market it. It consistently has worked fine-ish for years and is useful at what it does.

[zandorg]

My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since.

I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.

[pvg]

You should search comments, rather than stories. It's very regularly referenced in HN comments, often for calculations, sometimes in other contexts.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[asxd]

I appreciate the conversation around WA this Ask HN has started, but yeah you've basically completely answered the original question by pointing this out.

[zandorg]

Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.

[xeeeeeeeeeeenu]

Sorting by popularity has been broken for years because comment scores aren't public any more.

[dylan604]

They're just serving up answers which is boring to HN readers. Where's the drama in collecting data privately? Where's the drama from censoring results? No drama == No interest? Gawd, I have become cynical.

[GeorgeTirebiter]

Could please share your query / code to do this? Seems like it would make a good Example. Thanks!

[neltnerb]

This is for two pairs of R/C in series ( R||C + R||C ).

Real:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Real%28+%281%2F%281%2F...

Imaginary:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Imaginary%28+%281%2F%2...

Edit: Sorry, I don't know how to make the search query text show up since it has special characters, probably best to just use the links to see the query.