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Sharon Foster writes: > I wanted to find out how much my house would be worth today in a > "normal" situation (if there is such a thing in the housing market). > WolframAlpha helped me to formulate the query > > $96900 (1985 dollars) > > and then gave me the answer, adjusted for an average inflation of > about 2.8% per year. > > Google gave me a bunch of irrelevant links, which is odd, since Google > understand all kinds of conversions and other factual queries. Maybe > it just wasn't phrased correctly, but Google didn't help me to find > the correct phrasing. Funny. I test-drove Wolfram Alpha with a dozen queries off the top of my head, and EVERY SINGLE ONE of them gave "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input". So I was less impressed than you. _/|_ ___________________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "Have you killed anyone?" / "Yes, but they were all bad" -- Arnold Schwartzenegger, "True Lies".