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Wolfram Alpha API error code 1010: sequences of 1's divided by <=3 digits

Posted 10 months ago

G'day,

I found a rather peculiar behaviour with Wolfram API under very specific conditions, pertaining to division of two numbers. Here are the conditions:

  1. The numerator must consist of only 1's, greater than or equal to nine digits;
  2. The denominator is an integer ranging 2 ~ 249;
  3. Division can be represented in multiple ways, such as "/", "divided by".

Doing so yields an error, along the lines of:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<queryresult success='false'
    error='true'
    xml:space='preserve'
    numpods='0'
    datatypes=''
    timedout=''
    timedoutpods=''
    timing='1.256'
    parsetiming='0.'
    parsetimedout='false'
    recalculate=''
    id=''
    parseidserver='13'
    host='https://www6b3.wolframalpha.com'
    server='13'
    related=''
    version='2.6'>
 <error>
  <code>1010</code>
  <msg>Computation error</msg>
 </error>
</queryresult>

You can quickly test this out at https://products.wolframalpha.com/api/explorer/.

Further discussion on why this happens is appreciated.

POSTED BY: Jae H.
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