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You can do the same thing for satellites and stars (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead)

You can answer a lot of cool questions with Alpha. Nutritional information for 1/2 an avacado? It can do that. Number of kilobytes in a petabyte? Yup.

Overall, very cool tool.

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I use it occasionally for word finding, like a friend who wanted a clever .me domain I pointed to: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=words+ending+in+me

Also, you can use that same idea to cheat at Scrabble (or any variant), though I would never condone such a thing ;)

If you like that, try http://morewords.com.

  grep me$ /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
  1699

(WolframAlpha: 210)

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