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- From: abbasi@star.enet.dec.com (My name is Nasser ABBASI)
- Subject: New Class of functions found, impact of CAS on math
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.204630.2957@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:32:56 GMT
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- there is an interesting article about how using computer algebra
- systems (MAPLE), it helped in finding a new class of function, called
- terminal summations.
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- look it up, it is on page 35 of July 20,1992 Electronics Engineering
- Times magazine.
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- it is too long to type, so here are some psudo-random quotes from the
- article :(printed with no permission)
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- "Terminal summation is more comprehensive than any other convergence-
- forcing method, and a lot of them have been developed over the years"
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- "the ability to automate symbolic algebra now allows us to explore
- this obscure are. we can extract approximate values for these functions
- and characterize their values"
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- "Phipps expects computer algebra systems to bring other hypothetical
- mathematical objects into the light of day. The results could be
- revolutionary because automated algebra applies computational power
- at a higher level, automating the symbolic language of science in much
- the same way that AI languages such as LISP automated mathematical logic.
- Terminal summation has a potentially wide area of applications because
- it can speed the convergence of virtually any algorithm, according to Phipps."
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- /Nasser
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