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+This is a Slack bot based on [slack-ruby-bot](https://github.com/dblock/slack-ruby-bot) and inspired by [slack-mathbot](https://github.com/dblock/slack-mathbot).
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+It uses the Wolfram Alpha API, via [wolfram](https://github.com/cldwalker/wolfram).
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