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Is there some kind of limit on the complexity of equations for W|A "solve"

Posted 10 years ago
POSTED BY: Dylan Williams
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POSTED BY: Marco Thiel

Hi,

Interestingly, a Wolfram|Alpha request from within Mathematica works just fine:

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Cheers,

M.

POSTED BY: Marco Thiel
Posted 10 years ago

what about 25 or 30? i should have mentioned earlier, i did get inconstant results, sometimes it would accept 24, but not 25, sometimes it would accept 23 but not 24 etc

POSTED BY: Dylan Williams

Hi,

can confirm that. As you say sometimes 24 works sometimes it does not. I would not have expected this to give different outputs. It does not appear to be related to some server time to parse the input either.

Cheers,

M.

POSTED BY: Marco Thiel

multiple things could be the reason, I can only speculate:

Depending on the length of the input there might be different heuristics of what to do with it. e.g. if it is short, it is more probably to be (say) an animal name, then when it is a very long input. Perhaps a similar construct is in place for equations.

Also, there might be a construct in place that makes sure that (very long) input does not crash or unnecessarily overloads the system.

Perhaps you can run it in the Wolfram Cloud or (if available) on your own computer using Mathematica.

POSTED BY: Sander Huisman
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