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It was only so long ago somebody asked "[Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131931)". As somebody who didn't have Mathematica installed at the time, cheesing a problem with Wolfram Alpha was for sure one of the best applications I've had with it.

this year I guess I should probably have mathematica installed

Why bother installing Mathematica? You get all the functionality for free in their cloud notebooks.

If you just want access to the language and are fine with Jupyter as a front end you can just use https://www.wolfram.com/engine/ no need to buy anything then.

In what way did you cheese the problem?

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