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Earlier this year in the summer, we were talking about WolframAlpha as if it were the best thing to come about since, well, the internet — and hype about the computation engine soon died down. Now, WolframAlpha rises from the dead and proudly presents an iPhone app, and it costs a whopping $50.

Before you flip your chips though, the WolframAlpha is more than the mediocre iPhone web-based version we’ve all come to know. Included in the application are features not seen on the online version.

According to social media blog Mashable, “It’s a high end graphing calculator (that supports discrete number theory, Calculus derivative and plotting of functions), an almanac, a currency/unit converter and a pretty sophisticated stock analysis tool.” In which I thought the online version did all of this, but I may surely be mistaken.

Of course, someone out there’s got to have some use for the application, but many others are being critical about the price point to which the application has been set. While we do have $50 dollars to spend, we’re probably thinking this won’t be the most beneficial purchase we’ve ever made, so if you’re brave — let us know how it is.