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- From: scastill@nmsu.edu (Steve Castillo)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
- Subject: symbolic math package
- Message-ID: <SCASTILL.93Jan26091011@tesla.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:10:11 GMT
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- I am currently looking for a good symbolic math package for my 486 pc.
- It appears that both Mathematica and Maple are very powerful and
- verstatile packages that might serve my needs. The heaviest use for
- such a package is in the derivation in going from the governing
- integral or differential equations for a fields problem to the finite
- difference, finite element or boundary element code. This includes
- all the analytical work in defining basis functions, test functions,
- integrations, etc. Most of the work is for Cartesian, cylindrical and
- spherical coordinate systems. I would like to hear from other users
- about the following:
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- 1. The adequacy of the package for integration and differentiation
- of functions involving
- algebraic functions and combinations of algebraic functions with other
- special functions such as trigonemetric, bessel, Legendre and Hermite
- polynomials.
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- 2. What is the kind of performance I can expect for such a package
- running on a 50 MHz 486 under windows and/or OS/2.
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- 3. Realistic memory and disk requirements for the package.
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- 4. Adequacy of the package for generating fortran 77 code.
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- Please email me to save bandwidth. Thanks in advance for your
- opinions.
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- Steve Castillo
- New Mexico State University
- Las Cruces, NM
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- scastill@nmsu.edu
- (505)646-3214
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