New Calculator App Solves Math Problems By Simply Taking a Photo of the Problem!

[LegendKillerRG]

I used this on my trig book and guess what, gave me trash answers lol. I used it on an example of a fraction problem where it uses the unit circle and it have me .033 or something like that...

[Ebinlaw]

Repost.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/236809-photomath-app-which-solves-equations-using-your-smart-phones-camera/

[mr moose]

I didn't read the article or watch the video, in fact I didn't even read the thread. Can someone tell me if this thing knows the difference between x and x and X and X?

[Mauri]

In what backwards world are we living in that the app is available in windows phone before android?

[Kingofpants]

Android users are math whizzes by nature

I wouldn't be suprised if the Skill in maths Has a > 1% Gap between Apple and Android.

But I would be surprised if it had a >2% Gap since Android has such a large market share and seeing how android is easier and easier for the not a logical genius to understand.

[StingBull]

This was my dream as a child in math classes.

[LukeTim]

I would guess it just does OCR, processes it a bit to identfy individual problems, and then generates links to Wolfram-Alpha?

That seems like the easiest way to do it.

[Thorium19]

Just installed it on my windows phone. Looks like it could be useful, but it is very tempramental with choosing questions and sometimes gives a wrong answer.

[ZacDaMan72]

It's crap... Barely recognises anything.

[Vedge]

learn math period. This wont solve higher level math anyway so you're shooting yourself in the foot

 

Looks like Wolfram Alpha with a text recognition feature

[juretrn]

Why do americans feel the need for 9001 math related separate subjects?

[Octagoncow]

It's awesome if this actually works properly, but until then I'll just stick with wolframalpha.

[Bsmith]

time to try this out on scientific calculations and things with 2 pi rad as answer, gonna throw everything against it.

 

edit:

it has problems to define X in calculations containing sin, cos and tan.

 

example used: 3-sin(2-x)=3.014

 

answer output: sin(2-x)=-0.014

 

official(right) output:X1= 2.014

                               X2= 1.156

so if we made the sin(2-x)=-0.014 into sinx

then we had -0.014-2x-1=2.014 it's pretty close to X1, not bad.

[LePawel]

what if my handwriting is total fucking chicken scratch?

Switch profession to a doctor/GP.

[Tonylu1595]

Saw this on Engadget. Looks pretty nice. Now i don't need to use the calculator to check my problems.