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From: brad@bcars241.bnr.ca (Brad Shapcott)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Symbolic math program for novice ST user
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.135316.7514@bigsur.uucp>
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 13:53:16 GMT

In article <1991Apr26.194927.14861@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> yegerleh@vivaldi.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Yegerlehner) writes:
>
>Wait a minute: I thought that El Cal (and therefore Sub Cal) is
>purely a numerical tool.  The original poster asked for a symbolic
>math package.  The only ones I know of are form, available for free on
>atari.archive, and Maple.  Form is very general, but ha a steep learning
>curve, and requires that you program (recursively) in its own language.
>I saw a post a while ago that mentioned that Maple has been ported to
>the ST (~$400?), but I don't know anything beyond that.
>
>Jim

The version I was offered, which was a disk set without manuals (I was told
that the Mac version of the manuals was sufficiently close as to be useable)
was $80.  Now, that was through the University of Waterloo's computer store,
and I am a FT student there, so there must be some discounting.

But $400?  That does seem a little steep (not for Maple, which is an excellent
program, but in comparison to the price I was quoted).

brad@bnr