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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: programming for math credit - rational
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Date: 7 Dec 90 16:31:16 GMT
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In article <1076@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, schiebel@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Darrell Schiebel) writes:

> In agreement with "Dr Richard Enbody", a package like Mathematica should
> be introduced into the math classes as early as possible.

I also agree with this.  If you don't have the budget for mathematica
($800 - $1000 plus 386 machine with megs of memory), an alternative
might be "Derive", the decendent of MuMath.  It is $139, and runs
on XT's with 512K of memory and at least one 360K floppy drive.

It has saved my neck since returning to school.
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