Here is a link http://www.wolframalpha.com/ to a "computational knowledge engine", shared by Catherine Lee from EGGS on the school library list serv who said "A very useful mathematical computational engine that can also be good for trivia, eg what phase the moon was in when you were born, & it gives the right answer for ”what is the meaning of life” LOL."
From the site : WolframAlpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
Tell maths teachers about it in secondary schools, and for fun, look up your birthdate !
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