Re: What about MathCad...?

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From: Harald Geiger
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:06

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In <9610001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> wayne@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Wayne Covington) writes:

>digennar@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov (Frank S. DiGennaro) asked for opinions
>on MathCad.  So in a further effort to provoke a response from any MathCad
>users out there ...

I guess that's me ...

>Perhaps MathCad is shunned because its capabilities
>fall short of those of Maple, Mathematica, and other commonly mentioned
>computer algebra systems?

>Wayne

I don't think you quite get the point. Yes, its symbolic capabilities
fall short of nearly anything else I have seen (incl Maple,
Mathematica, Derive etc). I have been using MathCAD as an
engineering tool since 88 - obviously for numerical applications. And
I always have been impressed about its abilities to solve and display
a solution. I have never liked the speed, though.

Symbolic algebra as such is a useful add-on to a program which is
really meant for something else. It saves me looking up all the
integration formulas and computing the determinant of a matrix.
And it still looks like I would write it on a scrap paper.

And thats where my maths capability stop anyhow. As you guessed, I am
an engineer rather that a mathematician. So I suggest you post above
letter in sci.engr. and you might find MathCAD users out there. You
might even find some in sci.maths.num-analysis.

Yours truly

Harald

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