Published May 17, 2009 | https://doi.org/10.59350/cs2s8-mcn57

Can Wolfram Alpha Beat OPSIN?

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The chemical blogosphere has started to have fun with Wolfram Alpha (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/adams/?p=269 and links from it), so here's my contribution. Is the following picture a (bad) lookup? Is this an attempt to parse the name? After all a single character "m" shouldn't matter to the greatest brain ever.

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(For non-chemists it's got the structure of dibromoMethane instead of dibromoEthane).

I think we could bet on OPSIN beating WA in a contest.

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The chemical blogosphere has started to have fun with Wolfram Alpha (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/adams/?p=269 and links from it), so here's my contribution. Is the following picture a (bad) lookup? Is this an attempt to parse the name? After all a single character "m" shouldn't matter to the greatest brain ever.

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2009-05-17T15:50:00Z
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2009-05-17T15:50:00Z