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		Aardwolf on March 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apply dog vision to photo of Robert S. McNamara I tried replacing dog by cat, and it doesn't work. Why? Also, for the inverse gamma function of complex numbers: gamma^-1(1+10i) works. gamma^-1(1-10i) confuses its parser (doesn't know how to interpret input, even though the previous and next one work). gamma^-1(1-10.0i) works again. Why?

eternalban on March 21, 2014 [–]

Cat worked for me.

Aardwolf on March 21, 2014 | [–]

I tried again, and still doesn't work, it says: Using closest Wolfram|Alpha interpretation: photo of Robert S. McNamara (so it ignores the "cat" part. the fact that the image it shows has a strange yellow color is a coincidence)

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