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by mathteacher1729 4262 days ago
A colleague at my office gave it a test drive.

* http://youtu.be/jDbTKgWoufw

Results: As of now, it can only solve some linear equations. It did successfully solve one quadratic but it couldn't decide if the variable was r or e (the variable was x). It was largely unable to solve handwritten problems, even simple arithmetic.

note: This is a copy/paste of a comment I left on reddit /r/math and /r/windowsphone.

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I don't know why you'd expect it to solve hand-written problems. Handwriting recognition of text is barely solved, let alone maths.
Truthfully I did not know what to expect with regards to hand written problems. Out of curiosity, I wrote my very neatest and gave it a try and it solved one of them.