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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Did you say 2000? Their data or their years are way off.
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I'm not doubting you. I have used WolframAlpha for quite a few years and have seen no reason to think that their results are inaccurate, however. I like them because you can get the answers to certain kinds of questions fast, the answers are easy to locate, and you often (like with the population figures that you will get from the searches below), get the information in a graphical way which makes the information quick to grasp. Google is great, but it doesn't have those advantages.
Take it on a test drive.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i...+midland+texas.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i...n+odessa+texas.
Hmmm . . . I just noticed this interesting factoid about odessa: it has 1.1x the population of the Virgin Islands. You know, I had always wondered how they compared in population . . . .
