Wolfram Alpha Android app review
I have been a fan of Wolfram for a while. The impresario is Stephen Wolfram a physicist who turned business bloke to sell and develop his maths software. Maths software is not all that hard to come across on the web. A lot of it is free - from Sage for general maths to R for statistical work the field is well populated. Mathematica though seems to be in a different league. I am not working in maths, but did a degree in it while in college. I think I have an idea of what I am talking about and this has pushed me to want a copy of Mathematica. I have not taken the plunge yet as the full version for home use is €175. This is a bit beyond my budget at the moment, but soon I reckon I will take the plunge. Their computation engine is called Wolfram Alpha. Although a bit clunky (return values of the I did not understand that input sort, spring to mind) the idea behind it is solid. There are a lot of sources of data on the web, but standard queries just pass the data back to you. If you ar...