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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:58:13 -0600
Subject: Re: what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> this will be of interest to those bleeding-edge pythoners.
>
> =93what=85 is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?=94
>
> xahlee.org/funny/unladen_swallow.html

More interesting to me is not the ad but that Wolfram Alpha will
actually answer the question.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3Dairspeed+velocity+of+an+unladen+swal=
low

It even gives you an option to switch between an African or European swallo=
w.