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- From: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
- Subject: Re: FREEWARE symbolic math.package??
- Message-ID: <BxM0Kv.86I@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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- References: <92311.174110WOESTE@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE> <1do8f4INNln1@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> <1doctmINNknt@csc2.anu.edu.au> <1992Nov11.035606.20405@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:34:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.035606.20405@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
- > There are several PD and shareware symbolic manipulators available
- >under MS DOS. Which is best for you depends on what type of calculations
- >you are likely to do. Here are a few that I know about (in no particular
- >order):
- .......................
- > 5) Mercury: This program has extremely limited symbolic
- > capabilities, but is extremely adept at numerically
- > solving equations and produces publication-quality
- > graphical output. (This is the only package in this
- > list of which I would say this.) This used to be
- > Borland's Eureka!, but when Borland abandoned it, its
- > original author started selling it as shareware under
- > the name Mercury. (Filename of latest known version:
- > mrcry206.zip)
-
- I have not tried Mercury, but few years ago when I was evaluating Eureka!
- I ran into a strange problem with a set of three nonlinear equations, which
- made me mistrustful of the program's results.
-
- >
- > Marc R. Roussel
- > mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-
- Andrzej Pindor
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- Andrzej Pindor
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