Subject: Greetings, and a question about sequences.
From: Miquel Cabanas
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:01:50 +0200
hi,
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 06:37:49AM -0400, Ben Logan wrote:
>
> There is a document called "Matlab Basics" which I downloaded as part
> of my calc course, and I was looking through it trying to find the
> Maxima equivalents.
Maxima is a great tool, but if Matlab compatibility is a must then
I'd suggest to go for Octave (http://www.octave.org). Nonetheless,
note that Octave is meant for numerical computations rather than for
symbolic work, though it has an interface to Gina which allows for
some symbolic calculus (http://octave.sf.net). Probably, the best
advise is to combine the use of both Maxima and Octave.
> x=2:4
>
> yields
>
> x = 2 3 4
>
> Or you can give a step value:
>
> x=2:.5:4
>
> yields
>
> x = 2.0000 2.5000 3.0000 3.5000 4.0000
that code will run on Octave.
Miquel
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