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by troyastorino 5192 days ago
If you just type in the expression as Mathematica code, doesn't Wolfram Alpha evaluate it just as Mathematica would?
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JoachimSchipper 5191 days ago
Yes, but it times out rather quickly. Mathematica is much more powerful.

(For those interested: the relevant syntax is

    Integrate[x^2, x]
or

    Integrate[x^2, {x, 0, 1}]
You can find more Mathematica at http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.h...; searching the Mathematica docs is often easier than figuring out which textual query Wolfram|Alpha understands.)
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lemen 5191 days ago
No not always. I've tried several times, but W|A pipes the input first trough the natural language processor. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=DateListPlot[++WeatherD...]
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