{"id":8658,"date":"2010-06-24T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/wolfram-alpha-genealogical-calculations\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:20:52","slug":"wolfram-alpha-genealogical-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/wolfram-alpha-genealogical-calculations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfram|Alpha Genealogical &#8220;Calculations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=my+cousin%27s+son'>Wolfram|Alpha Genealogical &#8220;Calculations&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><em>Wolfram|Alpha<\/em> has always been known as a powerful &ldquo;computational  knowledge engine,&rdquo; but I came across a &ldquo;calculation&rdquo; that I didn&rsquo;t know  it could perform.\u00a0 Check out the result for the search term &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=my+cousin%27s+son\" target=\"_blank\">my  cousin&rsquo;s son<\/a>:&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wolfram|Alpha genealogical chart\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wolframalpha.com\/data\/uploads\/2010\/06\/genealogy_1.gif\" align=\"middle\" height=\"631\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pretty slick, huh?\u00a0 It seems as if by default it assumes that you are the starting point, though, and I haven&rsquo;t yet figured out any search parameter that lets you change that.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5571712\/use-wolfram-alpha-to-figure-out-confusing-family-relationships?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lifehacker<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfram|Alpha Genealogical &#8220;Calculations&#8221; Wolfram|Alpha has always been known as a powerful &ldquo;computational knowledge engine,&rdquo; but I came across a &ldquo;calculation&rdquo; that I didn&rsquo;t know it could perform.\u00a0 Check out the result for the search term &ldquo;my cousin&rsquo;s son:&rdquo; Pretty slick, huh?\u00a0 It seems as if by default it assumes that you are the starting point, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/wolfram-alpha-genealogical-calculations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wolfram|Alpha Genealogical &#8220;Calculations&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}