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Article #63289Re: Mathematica
From: Brian Gough
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:27
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:27
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In article <niles-1202951949020001@18.162.0.110> niles@axp745.gsfc.nasa.gov (Frederick (Rick) A Niles) writes:
Why not make a GNU Mathematica-like program,
like Octave has done for Matlab?
It's a nice idea, especially since it could use (free) documented
routines, unlike some of Mathematica's black box algorithms.
But the amount of work involved is enormous. And the people who are
capable of implementing it tend not to be symbolic math users, so it's
a project that will probably not happen soon.
However, I would be happy to be proved wrong on this.
bjg
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,bb1bb8cd2f2873d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-13 08:27:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!ub!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!fnnews!bjg From: bjg@fnth010.fnal.gov (Brian Gough) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Mathematica Date: 13 Feb 1995 16:27:01 GMT Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL Lines: 21 Message-ID: <BJG.95Feb13102702@fnth010.fnal.gov> References: <niles-1202951949020001@18.162.0.110> NNTP-Posting-Host: fnth010.fnal.gov In-reply-to: niles@axp745.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of 13 Feb 1995 00:48:21 GMT