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"PhotoMath, "the world's first camera calculator" which launched on the App Store earlier this month, has received an update making a number of significant improvements to the application. First, iOS device owners should find that the speed of both math recognition and calculation has been boosted as of PhotoMath 1.1.0. You'll find that using PhotoMath on your iPhone or iPod touch is a more efficient process as of the app's most recent update. Second, PhotoMath 1.1.0 now also allows users to delete their scanning history. If you've been using the application to snap and calculate countless number problems, you'll surely appreciate this change (nobody wants a clogged-up history page in an iOS app, right?)."

"PhotoMath is a new iPhone and Windows phone app that will provide users with the solution to math problems. PhotoMath users can take a picture of a math problem in a book and have the problem completed for them. The "steps" button on the app will show users the steps needed to successfully solve the math problem."

"You may have already heard about PhotoMath, the new iPhone app that lets you point it at a math problem on a textbook and then solves it while showing all the work involved. Some are immediately reacting by citing it's potential use in "cheating," while others cheer that it might force math teachers and textbook publishers to be more creative in how they teach math. In some ways, it may force them to do what some of us in other subjects have been looking at - creating unGoogleable questions. Here are some useful posts about the app, along with a video. "