I own a few apps priced higher then this, so my complaint isn't that an apps cost this much - it is that this specific app cost far too much for what you get. I assumed that you would get more functionality then the FREE website - dead wrong. For th...
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As a long-time fan of Mathematica, I was excited to see a product for the iPhone/iPod Touch from Wolfram. Unless you are doing lots of math stuff, the exisiting search engines and free utilities are way cheaper than the $50 for this app. I do lots...
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I, like many others, was hesitant to buy this even though I use the web-based application frequently. However, once I made the decision to go for it I am happy I did. I have been using this app all weekend for various answers to both the practical a...
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- Time Magazine declared Wolfram|Alpha one of the "50 Best Websites of 2009."
- WIRED said Wolfram|Alpha is "like having a squad of Cambridge mathematicians and CIA analysts inside your browser."
The Wolfram|Alpha app gives you immediate access to the vast resources of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine.
Drawing on 20+ years of development, 50,000+ built-in algorithms and 10+ trillion pieces of continually updated and curated data, the Wolfram|Alpha app is the ultimate replacement for almost any kind of calculator or reference book---and much more.
The breakthrough technology of Wolfram|Alpha for the first time lets you get expert-level answers to your specific free-form questions---complete with stunning dynamically generated visualizations and tables, and richer and deeper information than you imagined possible.
The Wolfram|Alpha app plugs directly into Wolfram|Alpha’s supercomputing cloud to deliver the unrivaled power of the Wolfram|Alpha knowledge engine to the mobile environment.
With the Wolfram|Alpha app you can instantly compute answers to questions across thousands of domains---from finance and food, to math and medicine, to stocks and spacecraft, to wordplay and weather.
The Wolfram|Alpha app brings all this to the iPhone, with an elegant native iPhone interface that includes a special notation keyboard, customized iPhone output, editable history and integration with maps and other iPhone services.
Type your questions however you want; here are a few examples:
* integrate x sin x log x
* gdp USA / (france + italy)
* pentane + O2 -> CO2 + water
* Big Mac + fries + coke
* sunrise tomorrow in Hong Kong
* $200k mortgage at 5% for 40 yrs
* words containing letters mpg
* london sydney tokyo
* 6/17/92 to Aug. 4, 1998
* 100 euro to USD
* weather in Honolulu when Obama was born
* growth chart age 7 male 4'1"
* 4th largest female population in Europe
* y'' + sin y = cos x
* MSFT vs. apple vs. IBM
* A# major 7th chord
* mother's sister's uncle
* sky chart Timbuktu next Tuesday
* NACA 4012 airfoil
* 140.177.20.10
* height of mt. everest / eiffel tower
* 1 MT nuclear explosion
Wolfram|Alpha is an indispensable tool for almost any iPhone user, including:
financial analysts * physicians * scientists * engineers * students * teachers * journalists * parents * economists * nutritionists * systems analysts * marketing managers * pilots * sportsmen * and many many others ...
Domains covered in the current version include:
Mathematics * Statistics & Data Analysis * Physics * Chemistry * Materials * Engineering * Astronomy * Earth Sciences * Life Sciences * Technological World * Transportation * Computational Sciences * Web & Computer Systems * Units & Measures * Money & Finance * Dates & Times * Places & Geography * Socioeconomic Data * Weather * Health & Medicine * Food & Nutrition * Words & Linguistics * Culture & Media * People & History * Education * Organizations * Sports & Games * Music * Colors * and many many more ...
Wolfram|Alpha has been featured in:
ABC News, Boston Globe, CNET, CNN, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, NPR's All Things Considered and Science Friday, The New York Times, Newsweek, Search Engine Land, MIT Technology Review, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and WIRED.
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION:
Resolves a number of reported issues
LANGUAGES:
English
REQUIREMENTS:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch.
Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
