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- From: fc03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Frederick W. Chapman)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: What about MathCad...?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.162350.84938@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:23:50 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- In article <9610001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, wayne@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Wayne
- Covington) writes:
-
- >digennar@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov (Frank S. DiGennaro) asked for opinions
- >on MathCad. So in a further effort to provoke a response from any MathCad
- >users out there ...
- >
- >The advertisement with the $79 offer tells a person very little about what
- >it can and cannot do. So I visited some computer bookstores yesterday in
- >hopes of learning more, but none of them had any books on MathCad. Nor do I
- >recall many MathCad postings in this group, even after Frank posted his
- >inquiry. If they are on version 3.1, it must have been around long enough
- >to acquire a following. Perhaps MathCad is shunned because its capabilities
- >fall short of those of Maple, Mathematica, and other commonly mentioned
- >computer algebra systems?
-
- MathCAD was originally a NUMERIC computation package rather than a
- SYMBOLIC computation package. Although MathCAD for MS-Windows now
- includes parts of Maple, the orientation is still very heavily on
- NUMERICS rather than SYMBOLICS. That is probably why you don't see it
- mentioned often in sci.math.symbolic. Try sci.math.num-analysis --
- you might have better luck there.
-
- Fred Chapman
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