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		mangamadaiyan on April 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who Was Ramanujan? The name Wolfram (for the metal) is of German origin, IIRC. Indonesia having been a Dutch colony probably got it from the Dutch language, if I might hazard a guess.

eggy on April 29, 2016 [–]

Thanks for the source. I was just using Mathematica and seeing the 'Wolfram' in the Indonesian text just popped for me. Having a Wolf as a PL mascot for Wolfram Language is pretty cool too!

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