On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
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> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Paul Myers wrote:
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> > Does the "screen" layout of the input and output, as shown in other
> > threads actually look that way on a Maxima screen or does it appear more
> > like that on a Maple screen? That is, is it just the migration of the
> > example to an ASCII emailer that makes equations difficult to read?
> Have a look at the screen shots on maxima.sf.net .
> All in all maxima looks and works very much like maple.
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> >
> > As a university student, at the University of Canberra, doing a Bachelor
> > of Education in Maths/Science, we are using Maple 8 Student Edition for
> > our Maths 1 & 2 computer "labs" and for basic "stuff" I find this a good
> > program and last semester bought myself a copy.
> So you should keep to maple, since you have been tought how to use it and
> your collegues use it, too.
> I introduced maxima to my students (yesterday), because it is free and our
> school can't afford to buy 30 network licenses of Maple for our computers.
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> Although I guess Maxima can do mathmatics as well as Maple, it is not as
> well documented and it lacks Maple's features for presentation of your
> work. For an experienced user there exist enough workarounds, but for a
> student these are useless complications.
> You will have enough to do attending your courses.
Oops, I forgot:
Of course, if you are interested in programing, if you want to find out
how a CAS works, or if you want to develop your own code, an OpenSource
application like Maxima should be you choice.
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> Regards,
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> Uli.
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> >
> > I hope the above is taken in the positive way intended and would be
> > interested in any comments.
> >
> > Thank you for your assistance in these matters.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paul Myers
>
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