• white_nrdy@programming.dev
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    9 hours ago

    I’m curious if the Wolfram Alpha of 10 years ago could have answered this properly. I remember fucking around with weird math related word questions in Wolfram back in school, like “how many calories are in a cubic lightyear of butter” and it given a reasonable sounding answer (and backed it up).

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      5 hours ago

      did it assume nuclear or burning?

      like if you asked about 1cm^3 of butter, it would be reasonable to assume that you did the experiment on Earth in our atmosphere, but scaling up the size significantly changes the expected surrounding environment