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- From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
- Subject: Re: Math Progs for the 8-bit
- References: <1992Aug13.051009.29841@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <800015@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> <9208120111.AA20305@nettlerash.berkeley.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:38:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.051009.29841@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin) writes:
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- >I too have written programs that find the DEFINITE integral and/or NUMERIC
- >derivative of a function at a certain point. But, from what I have seen
- >of Derive/Mathematica type programs (which the original post refered to),
- >they are able to find the INDEFINITE integral and/or the indefinite (is
- >that the right term?) derivitive, that is, the function that expresses the
- >int. or der., not just the answer...
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- Anybody remember ALGICALC (I believe that was the name)? It was a
- program written in Atari BASIC which could do various mathematical
- stuff, including differentiation. You could give it x^2 and it would
- come back with a derivative of 2x. The user interface sucked major goat
- eggs, but it predated programs like Mathematica, TK Solver, MathCAD, et.
- al. by MANY years, and ran in BASIC on a "lowly" 8-bit machine.
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