The official iPhone and iPod touch application for Wolfram Alpha, an answer engine from Wolfram Research,
debuted on the App Store Monday with a $50 price tag. The math-oriented company's extensive search offers the ability to comb through curated, structured data, and aims to eventually "compute whatever can be computed about anything."
The application allows users to get expert answers to freeform questions, complete with visualizations, tables, and a wide range of data and information.
"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 company said."
The application, built with the Wolfram Alpha API, features a native iPhone interface with a special notation keyboard, customized iPhone output, editable history, and integration with iPhone services such as maps.
Topics: App Store, iPod touch, iPhone
