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		tsally on May 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wolfram Alpha: The Wikipedia Killer A lot of the mathematical proofs and descriptions of algorithms on Wikipedia are surprisingly well written. You're telling me Wolfram Alpha can replace that? In fact, Wikipedia is a completely different type of service.

nx on May 17, 2009 [–]

I really want to believe that, but we'll have to check later on. I'd like to see the OS community triumphing over commercial solutions.

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