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Robert D Loss <Rlossrd@cc.curtin.edu.au> writes:
> 
> Finemore wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a cheaper alternative to Mathematica and Derive.  We
> > have been quoted $1500 to put Mathematica on 10 machines, and as a
> > school, we cannot afford the $5000 for 30 machines, (and that is only one
> > room out of three!).  We need a program that has similar functions to the
> > above programs, but either a shareware version, or something cheaper.
> > 
> > Many thanks
> > 
> 
> There is absolutely nothing in the class of Mathematica or similar in 
> cheaper or shareware. These are very sophisticated products that have 
> taken many years to develope so I don't believe people are going to give 
> them away as sharware.
> 

This really depends on your motivation, doesn't it?
Very many shareware products are highly sophisticated, are in
constant development over many years and often all they need to
convince people to use them over a commercial product is a high
price tag of their own :)

The program you want is called MuPAD - it should do a lot of what 
you need, and it's free to educational users. I forget it's location
but any of the standard search engines should tell you where to
get it.

Hope this helps.



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Rupert Littlewood                         Graduate Student in Maths 
rupert@maths.usyd.edu.au                          Sydney University