>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Lemire <lemire@ondelette.com> writes:
Daniel> What gives? Is Maxima really useless? (And I don't want that to be
Daniel> true! I've read somewhere that someone spent 15 years on this piece of
Daniel> software!!!)
15 years of part time work by one person versus the hundreds
(thousands?) for the commercial systems.
Daniel> Sure, you can draw plots, but so can gnuplot. Sure you can do some
Daniel> calculations, but then so can gnuplot... So far, I haven't found
Daniel> anything that gnuplot couldn't do better.
Gnuplot can't tell me that for p > 0
2
INF t
/ - --- - p t
[ 3/4 2 b
I t %E dt
]
/
0
is
2 2
b p b p
---- 8 SQRT(%PI) %M (----)
3 7/8 4 - 5/8, - 1/4 2
3 GAMMA(-) b %E (--------------------------------
4 5/8 3 1/4
3 2 GAMMA(-) b SQRT(p)
8
2
3/8 b p
2 SQRT(%PI) %M (----)
- 5/8, 1/4 2
- ---------------------------------)/4
7 1/4
GAMMA(-) b SQRT(p)
8
(Actually, I'm not sure I could do that either, expect by looking in a
table of integrals.)
Daniel> I really wish I could throw away Maple, Mathcad and all that... but it
Daniel> seems like it is nowhere near happening!
Then don't throw them away. You have something that works. Why
switch?
Ray