Re: What's the best math software if price is not a factor?

Greetings,

1) While there is a free version of MuPAD for private use (which was
nice of Sciface to provide, but not so nice of them to hide :-), in
general MuPAD is NOT free, and I don't think they would appreciate
your spreading the myth that it is. One of the reasons I chose MuPAD
rather than sticking with MathCAD was due to MuPAD's lack of intrusive
copy protection. Let us not repay their trust by encourage
(unintentional) pilfering of their software!

2) Although I'm sure it could do whatever the OP needed doing -- Why
am I sure? Because it's easy to be sure when you don't bother to
verify! <g> -- MuPAD is hardly intuitive. One wonders if there might
not be a more user friendly solution to the OP's request. Perhaps
MathCAD or Derive (which is NOT identical to the CAS built into TI
products).

N.B. If our OP friend finds Derive too cheap for him, he may feel free
to purchase a copy for me, stuff a few C-notes into the package, and
send it to me. I'll do anything to help a newsgroup buddy; even taking
his money!

Cordially,
Richard Kanarek

Helpful Links:
Sciface (Publisher of MuPAD) Website in English:
www.mupad.com
Info on Free versions of MuPad:
www.mupad.org/download/ (towards bottom of page)
USA Distributor of MuPAD (Commercial/Educational Versions):
www.mackichan.com
TI Software (Derive, TI InterActive, etc.):
http://education.ti.com/us/product/software.html



On 20 Sep 2005 15:27:19 -0700, amca01@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I suggest you try the following free software:
>
>MuPAD (http://www.mupad.de)
>
>which is a symbolic algebra system, similar to Maple, and
>
>Scilab (http://www.scilab.org)
>
>which is computational matrix-oriented software similar to Matlab.
>
>Then you can decide if a symbolic or a computational package will best
>suit your needs. Of course, if price is no object, you could get both
>Maple and Matlab. The virtue of this is that each of Maple and Matlab
>will allow you to use the other: the "Symbolic" toolbox of Matlab is a
>Matlab front-end to the Maple kernel, and you can also use Matlab from
>within Maple.
>
>Both are very mature products.
>
>-Alasdair

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