Subject: Greetings, and a question about sequences.
From: Andrei Zorine
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:56:25 +0400
Hello!
yes, there are many beautiful programs out there. But this man was
interested in Maxima, and in using special (possibly, user-defined)
operators in particular. From this point on view, your message was
totally useless! Responses like this don't attract new users of Maxima!.
--
Andrei Zorine
steve@horne.homelinux.net wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 06:37:49AM -0400, Ben Logan wrote:
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>>Hello, everyone.
>>
>>I am new to the list and relatively new to Maxima, though I am not a
>>total newbie. I have just started a technical calculus course, which
>>requires the use of Matlab, at a local college.
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> ...skip...
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> There are very large differences betrween matlab & maxima.
> Using matlab for a calculus course seems a bit odd.
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> Matlab does numerical linear algebra, not calculus. As far as I know (and I
> haven't used it in years) it can't symbolically integrate or differentiate,
> take limits, ...
> It can solve ODE's but only numerically, not symbolically.
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> You may succeed with Maxima but you'll probably spend an unacceptable amount of
> time on issues that don't further your knowledge of calculus.
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> I'd suggest you look at Octave too.
> It uses exactly the same syntax as Matlab -- attempts to be a clone.
> http://www.octave.org/
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> I personally use scilab
> http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/
> which does everything Matlab does, but the syntax is slightly different.
>
> If you use both Octave and Maxima for what they excel at,
> you should ace the course.
>
> Steve
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