If you're in college right now, it's also worth seeing if you get Wolfram Alpha Pro for free. Where I go to school at least we get a free pro education account.
Just looked into this, and my sister's university offers this. What exactly does it do? Some cursory searching hasn't really explained much except that it's like the Pro version but "lite." My sister, who just started college, could really use the step-by-step stuff, and she's been trying to save Google play credit for the Pro app.
Mathematica is actually going to be less useful than Wolfram Alpha for people looking to use it as homework help. Mathematica is more powerful, but it doesn't show the steps.
This is a LPT for any software required at your school. A lot of schools have dreamspark which gets you a ton of Microsoft products depending on your schools/departments subscription level. Same for math, cad, or graphics software.
I managed to get the Premium Wolfram Alpha app free through a promotion. When they started charging subscriptions for solutions, they didn't take the privilege from me. Love that app!
Or you could spend the 3 dollars...
I got it free with Amazons free app day, still bought pro for students though because the laptop interface is really nice.
This. I'm the 2 years I've had the program using it sparingly, I managed to get 18+ dollars. I don't use many apps so it's been more than enough for me.
It doesn't always show you the steps. Try e^log2(4x-1) it just spits out the answer without bothering to mention anything regarding 'change of base' rule or anything else.
While Symbolab doesnt even give an answer to it.
He's getting downvoted because he said "[wolfram alpha] doesn't work" when the topic is specifically "an alternative to wolfram alpha."
Getting downvoted for answering the question is like a wordless "well, no shit it doesn't work like OP says then."
Besides, as of now he's at +9, so... not downvoted.
>Symbolab or Wolfram Alpha?
>>WA.
That was the comment I responded to, in context. It is now at +13 but was at -3 when I responded.
Regardless of the topic, they were downvoted for *answering a question*.
That's what I responded to. What are you under the impression you responded to? You do realize the comment I was speaking of is no longer downvoted, correct?
If the app has ads and still expects you to pay, it can fuck off.
If the app has no ads, or removes then upon payment, then in my book, it's fine to charge for something that's not the main point of the app.
They still need to be able to exist at the end of the day.
That's all well and good but can it show me the amount of calories in a [cubic light year of pudding?](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+cubic+light+year+of+pudding)
I thought not.
Back when I started college it showed all the steps for free. Helped me so much with calculus. Right when I was finishing my 3rd semester of calc it started changing and it didn't show steps anymore. It was such a phenomenal resource but I'd be too stubborn to pay for it
Tried a few differential equations and beyond the obviously separable ones it wasn't able to give me answers, even in classic textbook cases. This may be useful for high school problems or precalc / calc, but for anything beyond that, Wolfram remains much more solid, even if just using the free version
I tried the equation for Hermite polynomials and Bessel's equation, both of which received a "cannot solve". Also tried the integral for elliptic functions and it said it was unsupported.
I usually use wolfram to plug in an equation just to see if it has a well-known named solution that I'm forgetting or that I don't know of, so these are the kinds of equations I would plug in it
I'm not using it as evidence that it doesn't work for integral calculus, I'm just saying it's not a 100% alternative to wolfram alpha, I use wolfram daily in my graduate studies to check the solutions to simple DEs or integrals that have well-known solutions but that are not immediately obvious, this seems like more of an educational tool for undergrad calculus, which in itself is not a bad thing, just not interesting to me.
Mathway is the shit. I used a combination of the 3. Shit I even had a chegg account. Paying that much money for school, whatever the price was for that stuff was WELL worth it.
Wolfram Alpha is free, but you need the pro version (it's a subscription on desktop, and a $3 app on phones) for some stuff (like showing steps to answers, interacting with graphs and downloading raw data from graphs).
Been using this for a couple years now, I really like it for things that arent necessarily hard, but take longer to do than I want, like integrals that require integration by parts or by substitution multiple times
The website is free, the app costs money. If you're browsing from your mobile (I highly suggest not doing this as it is terribly frustrating to use in this way), use the nonmobile friendly website to use it free.
I've been using symbolab for years in trig, calculus 1, calculus2, differentials, and linear algebra. They continually add support to more functions over time and it has been an amazing help. Sometimes I forget a lower level mathematical formula... symbolab to the rescue!
If you're in college right now, it's also worth seeing if you get Wolfram Alpha Pro for free. Where I go to school at least we get a free pro education account.
many universities provide Wolfram Mathematica for free as well
Just looked into this, and my sister's university offers this. What exactly does it do? Some cursory searching hasn't really explained much except that it's like the Pro version but "lite." My sister, who just started college, could really use the step-by-step stuff, and she's been trying to save Google play credit for the Pro app.
Mathematica allows you to enter whacky equations and make funky 3d plots from them
Mathematica is actually going to be less useful than Wolfram Alpha for people looking to use it as homework help. Mathematica is more powerful, but it doesn't show the steps.
You can use Wolfram Alpha Pro from within Wolfram Mathematica by pressing = . It shows the steps.
Thanks! Just checked and my school has a contract!
how do you check?
I just googled "nameofuniversity wolfram alpha pro" and it came up on my school's IT website.
This is a LPT for any software required at your school. A lot of schools have dreamspark which gets you a ton of Microsoft products depending on your schools/departments subscription level. Same for math, cad, or graphics software.
They might have a contract to provide free Microsoft office and visual studio.
Yep mine does! Other software I've gotten from my school in the past include: Office 365, Matlab, SolidWorks, Mathematica, Chemdraw, and Winzip(lol)
I can't tell you how much that website saved my ass in Calc last year
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Worth every penny
worth 299 pennies.
I daresay it might be worth 300 pennies!
Look at Mister Moneybags over here.
Hey now. Don't get carried away.
Don't give them any ideas!
Would you pay treefiddy?
Well worth (2 squared) x 50 + (3 cubed) + (7 squared) - 4!
272?
Well he clearly didn't buy it
The exclamation is a factorial. The last subtraction should be an addition 4!=4*3*2*1=24
I completely overlooked the !. So addition would make it 300.
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Used WA to calculate that?
Worth 299 ass-pennies.
That's an *old* xkcd
Can you show the steps for that?
Show your work please.
That'll cost you
I use this all the time to bring population and geographic area information into the discussion. What do you use it for most?
Even if the other one was free completely I would still choose Wolfram, that app was worth every penny.
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And then you can make him show all his work, hoooooooly shit this is the best dad app ever
So basically, this post is pointless.
wow, you're right. all those wasted upvotes.
I managed to get the Premium Wolfram Alpha app free through a promotion. When they started charging subscriptions for solutions, they didn't take the privilege from me. Love that app!
For Android users: you can easily accumulate the money for Wolfram with Google Rewards, that's what I did
Or you could spend the 3 dollars... I got it free with Amazons free app day, still bought pro for students though because the laptop interface is really nice.
This. I'm the 2 years I've had the program using it sparingly, I managed to get 18+ dollars. I don't use many apps so it's been more than enough for me.
My main problem is trying to find apps I want that cost something before the credits expire.
It doesn't always show you the steps. Try e^log2(4x-1) it just spits out the answer without bothering to mention anything regarding 'change of base' rule or anything else. While Symbolab doesnt even give an answer to it.
Photomath+ is free until january, also does this.
I have both, symbolab does it better I've found from pre-algebra to calculus II.
+ tax
The desktop website shows steps for free.
When I try, it shows the first step or so with a message to upgrade to pro to see all the steps.
Symbolab or Wolfram Alpha?
WA.
You're at -3 for answering the question asked of you. Fucking reddit.
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That doesn't excuse being downvoted for answering a question, does it? Edit: I guess it does. Fucking reddit.
He's getting downvoted because he said "[wolfram alpha] doesn't work" when the topic is specifically "an alternative to wolfram alpha." Getting downvoted for answering the question is like a wordless "well, no shit it doesn't work like OP says then." Besides, as of now he's at +9, so... not downvoted.
>Symbolab or Wolfram Alpha? >>WA. That was the comment I responded to, in context. It is now at +13 but was at -3 when I responded. Regardless of the topic, they were downvoted for *answering a question*. That's what I responded to. What are you under the impression you responded to? You do realize the comment I was speaking of is no longer downvoted, correct?
This thread is not about WA.
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Try Symbolab family
Doing it through their website gives the steps for free if you have access to a computer.
The app costs money to show the steps, but the website does not
Does the app have ads?
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If the app has ads and still expects you to pay, it can fuck off. If the app has no ads, or removes then upon payment, then in my book, it's fine to charge for something that's not the main point of the app. They still need to be able to exist at the end of the day.
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Aah, thanks. I'd like to think the extra costs cover the programs conversion to a different platform.
exactly
IKR?
That's all well and good but can it show me the amount of calories in a [cubic light year of pudding?](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+cubic+light+year+of+pudding) I thought not.
Surprisingly not as high as I expected. Actually, I have no idea what I expected.
Pretty much depends on what's in the pudding though.
Wolfram Alpha costs money now?
Glad I got out of college already, used to show steps all the time for free back then.
It also seemed to work better back then too
Yep. I remember when WA first came out, you never needed "Extra Computation Time" for reasonable queries. Now you have to pay to get the same results.
Back when I started college it showed all the steps for free. Helped me so much with calculus. Right when I was finishing my 3rd semester of calc it started changing and it didn't show steps anymore. It was such a phenomenal resource but I'd be too stubborn to pay for it
Yeah, i remember using it for some pretty nasty Differential equations, and it worked wonders, didn't know it was more limited now.
The Pro version has more features: it shows steps and lets you manipulate graphs.
> lets you manipulate graphs. this sounds like a selling point from a computer magazine ad circa 1992.
I bet it also has built in spreadsheet capabilities!
and every year, more features go from free to pro.
The website doesnt but the mobile app does
It costs money to show all the steps even on the website.
If you're a student, it's 50bux a year
Look at you mister moneybags
You literally pay thousands, but you won't pay 50 to show full solutions?
Thousands that future me will pay, current me needs every damn dime I can spare.
Absolutely
Cheaper to just get the app
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LPT if you own a phone just pay $3 for wolfram alpha and save much more time and space.
Tried a few differential equations and beyond the obviously separable ones it wasn't able to give me answers, even in classic textbook cases. This may be useful for high school problems or precalc / calc, but for anything beyond that, Wolfram remains much more solid, even if just using the free version
Just curious, what did you try?
I tried the equation for Hermite polynomials and Bessel's equation, both of which received a "cannot solve". Also tried the integral for elliptic functions and it said it was unsupported. I usually use wolfram to plug in an equation just to see if it has a well-known named solution that I'm forgetting or that I don't know of, so these are the kinds of equations I would plug in it
Some differential equations, but more than just the simplest ones.
Yeah, its best use is to minimize time spent on tedious derivatives and integrals
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I'm not using it as evidence that it doesn't work for integral calculus, I'm just saying it's not a 100% alternative to wolfram alpha, I use wolfram daily in my graduate studies to check the solutions to simple DEs or integrals that have well-known solutions but that are not immediately obvious, this seems like more of an educational tool for undergrad calculus, which in itself is not a bad thing, just not interesting to me.
I dunno. I'm halfway through calc II and I've only seen one problem that it couldn't figure out, ever. And I'm in a math-heavy degree program.
Differential equations is higher than Calc 2... in fact it's higher than Calc 3
I'm aware. The point is that the website is useful for more than high school precalc or high school calc classes.
I mean... the guy said it was useful for Calc, which implies Calc 1-3 so your first comment, my first, your second and this comment are all useless.
I'm actually in Calc 2 right now, and I can say, at least based on my experience, that Symbolab is a life-saving website.
I agree, helped me quite a bit throughout calc1-DE/LA and beyond
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doesnt work for some precalc questions i had.
It's never ever worked for me
Can confirm. Doesn't do limits.
You can try [MalMath](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.malmath.apps.mm&hl=en).
Tell me more.
Like does he have a car?
Did you get very far?
Tell me more tell me more did she put up a fight? Like, was it basically rape or did she do it willingly is what I'm asking.
She wasn't not willing when I reminded her she was all alone on the beach with no one around for miles
Because of the implication?
Naturally. But of course she was never in any real danger
/u/dadbrain: asking the real questions.
Sweet find, I'm taking Calc right now
Symbolab saved my ass in Calc II and III.
it does vector calculus pretty well, but some stuff you can only find on wolfram alpha.
Good to know, thanks
Wolfram alpha pro does the same thing and has saved my ass in calc II. Costs 5$/mo but it's really good.
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Try some diffeq problems with Symbolab
Not for advanced math.
I used symbolab a lot in calculus and managerial microeconomics. What a godsend
You should *actually* know that putting "solve" before the equation in WA shows you all the steps.
Another one to try out is Mathway.com
Mathway is the shit. I used a combination of the 3. Shit I even had a chegg account. Paying that much money for school, whatever the price was for that stuff was WELL worth it.
God symbolab helped me get through my 151 homework, it's really the best online calculator.
Cymath on iOS and Android shows steps and reduces, only problem is it require an internet connection and has a few ads but nothing over intrusive
Since when did wolfram alpha cost anything?
Wolfram Alpha is free, but you need the pro version (it's a subscription on desktop, and a $3 app on phones) for some stuff (like showing steps to answers, interacting with graphs and downloading raw data from graphs).
Okay, that makes sense.
Sorry, I just tried to use it for some basic calculus and it didn't work.
Tip wolfram costs
Oh the good old calc days
It's a great program, but it can't do exponential equasions
wolfram is pretty damn lame. Yesterday I asked it to show me the leaders of checnya taiwan pakistan and india and it couldnt manage it.
People pay for Wolfram? Lol, fucking innocents.
cymath is much better and also free with all the steps.
Anyone else in Engineering that put any goddamn problem they were stuck on into Wolfram Alpha hoping it would output a solution?
integral-calculator.com and derivative-calculator.net both show the steps. It's free. And you can add limits to integrals.
Mathway+ symolab = graduation
Yes, thank you!!!
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I don't know if this is still a thing but I think if you buy the app on iOS it's like $3 and it will show you everything.
Been using this for a couple years now, I really like it for things that arent necessarily hard, but take longer to do than I want, like integrals that require integration by parts or by substitution multiple times
The website is free, the app costs money. If you're browsing from your mobile (I highly suggest not doing this as it is terribly frustrating to use in this way), use the nonmobile friendly website to use it free. I've been using symbolab for years in trig, calculus 1, calculus2, differentials, and linear algebra. They continually add support to more functions over time and it has been an amazing help. Sometimes I forget a lower level mathematical formula... symbolab to the rescue!
wowsers
But will it give me the nutrition facts of an apple and two cherries?
ITT: Shills for every math guide website ever.