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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Subject: Re: Calculus and Mathematica
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.174230.21555@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- References: <347@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> <1992Aug19.163805.3972@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:42:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.163805.3972@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart Goddard) writes:
- >Last year, I gave the
- >new class roughly the same list (but longer) and had them integrate
- >them on the machine. (I had to check that the maching could do all of
- >them before I made the assignment. If the machine can't, the problem
- >isn't a good example for this exercise.)
-
- Did you eventually show your students examples the computers
- screwed up badly? Integration is the one thing which computer algebra
- systems all claim to do, but can't handle reliably. If you use one of these
- systems in your classes, you have to show the students just how
- dangerously stupid these things are.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-