[Swordmaker]

This is what WolframAlpha reported for the input "Freerepublic"

All you iPad owners, apparently there is a WolframAlpha app for iPad... I am going to go take a look at it...

[Swordmaker]

WolframAlpha Computations Knowledge Engine... for your computer or iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. This has got to be the ultimate search tool... PING!

It is available as an app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch for a measly $1.99!

Oh, and the online version works well on both Macs and PCs as well.

Apple/Mac/iPhone/iPad Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Ayn And Milton]

Thanks for posting. Since I work in science, I do have all kinds of programs at my disposal. But this one’s soooooo nice and handy, sort of a First Aid tool kit.

[Talisker]

Wow.

This. Is. Great!

THANKS for posting!

[2aberro]

Wow.... just what I need,,, another excuse to spend even MORE time plugged into the internet..... I may just give up eating and start an IV drip.

Breaks for sex and work only....

[lowflyn]

Extremely intelligent in its range of knowledge, but if you try and get out side that range then it gets dumb very quick.

I used this two days ago to convert psi to kg/cm2 and it gave me an answer very quickly - it is a great resource.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Wolfram story is quite interesting . . . apparently Mr. W. is quite the smart cookie in math. And business; he's a billionaire.

Jobs was bundling Wolfram Mathematica with some computers (forget now whether it was the nEXT or, I think, the Mac) for a while there.

The interesting thing is that they claim to have solved integral calculus, in the sense that if a solution exists their software will produce it. So you can ask for the integral of x² and it will tell you x³/3. No need to ever do trig substitutions in order to get your integral. (And if no closed-form solution exists, they will do a numerical integration, anyway . . .).

They claim to have checked their program against the math tables - and found differences to be typos in the math tables . . .

Knowledge of that fact should IMHO affect the way mathematics is taught. It would seem to make it possible to become effectively expert in stuff that I had to work hard at in school, quite easily in comparison. That certainly shouldn't break a homeschooler's heart . . .

[dayglored]

Obligatory Slashdot reference:

"Wow, imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!"

Yeah, I know it's an app, not a machine; details...

[ShadowAce]

[martin_fierro]

Betcha Google acquires them.

[martin_fierro]

[BreitbartSentMe]

Ping 4 later

[GOPJ]

Ping (You’ll want to bookmark this one...)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

http://www.wolframalpha.com/.

[GOPJ]

430,000 daily visitors? Is that possible?

[zeugma]

BFL...

I did a search for "appl msft". Interesting