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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Always mount a scratch monkey.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Symbolic Derivatives (48-SX)
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Date: 13 Feb 91 02:44:51 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.221409.644@ecl.psu.edu>, jmr@ecl.psu.edu writes...
>Anyone out there know how to force the 48sx to return a symbolic derivative?
>What I want to do is take the derivative of an algebraic with respect to
>'X' (for example), however, 'X' is defined in the current subdirectory
>with a numeric value.

PATH -> p << HOME d p EVAL >>, where "d" is the derivative operator.  You'll
need to keep the troublesome variables out of your home directory for this to
work.


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