Re: Introducing CAS To Engineers (was Mathamatica vs MATLAB)

JohnCreighton_@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> [...]
> So in MATLAB 7 it does something intelligent a reasonable amount of the
> time. It is not able to recognize every commonly used irrational
> number. For instance it was not able to get back the symbolic
> expression 1+e from the its associated double value.

As an aside: if that's what you expect, you're probably better off with
Maple and its 'identify' command, available from Maple 9 on.

--
Thomas Richard
Maple Support
Scientific Computers GmbH
http://www.scientific.de
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