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kind of sad really that they have hard coded all these kind of silly 'questions' - I showed it to a friend today, he asked it about the photographer Robert Frank and it did a name frequency comparison. n-grams are your friend Mr Wolfram.

10 more: http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/better-wolfram-easter-eggs/

"Are you self-aware?" is a pretty good one.

Q: how much wood could a woodchuck chuck?

(WA) A: a woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

http://www63.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=SHA1+collision only comes up with the SHA1 digest of "1 collision", except that I can't re-produce the digest it gives: 260b ad88 a9bf 718b e7ac 56ab 10db 8368 2e04 3f5e

I could. Is your filesize 11? Maybe your editor added a newline character.

    C:\>ls -l blah2.txt
    -rwx------+ 1 shrughes ???????? 11 May 18 06:39 blah2.txt
    C:\>cat blah2.txt
    1 collision
    C:\>openssl dgst -sha1 blah2.txt
    SHA1(../blah2.txt)= 260bad88a9bf718be7ac56ab10db83682e043f5e

Thanks. That's odd. Maybe I kept glancing back at the decimal one they give first. I even ended up doing stuff like

    for n in '' -n; do for a in '' ' '; do for b in '' ' '; do echo $n "${a}ABC$b" | sha1sum; done; done; done

to try and get the output they give for http://www63.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=SHA+ABC and thought I hadn't managed it.

For some reason, though, 'who was Ozymandias?' goes unanswered.

From my experience trying to get various Asian fonts working under it, I believe he invented Latex.

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