Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax! From: VM03D4%WVNVM.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Newsgroups: net.math.symbolic Subject: Re: Wanted: info. on "affordable" symbolic math systems Message-ID: <86@randvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 10:58:51 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.86 Posted: Thu Mar 6 10:58:51 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 00:27:40 EST References: <538@kontron.UUCP> <78@randvax.UUCP> Sender: lseward@randvax.UUCP Distribution: net Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 29 ============== From: Received: from WISCVM.WISC.EDU by rand-unix.ARPA; Mon, 3 Mar 86 11:50:18 pst Message-Id: <8603031950.AA03521@rand-unix.ARPA> Received: from (MAILER)WVNVM.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 03/03/86 at 13:47:04 CST Received: by WVNVM (Mailer X1.23) id 7016; Mon, 03 Mar 86 14:44:51 EST Date: 3 March 1986 14:24:53 EST Subject: Re: affordable symbolic math systems muMATH-muSIMP 83 is available from SOFT WAREHOUSE and from MICROSOFT. Cost is $300 for MS DOS version and $250 for CPM version. It provides a TRACE capability for showing what the system does, but documentation on this is rather skimpy. I am publishing a series of short articles in ACCESS ( Journal of Microcomputer Applications ) describing the system. I have gone through differentiation. Dave Stoutmeyer of the SOFT WAREHOUSE has also written PICOMATH, a very small systemwhich is in BASIC and does trigonometric and polynomial manipulations. It is probably of more interest in showing how a Computer Algebra system works than for serious work. William Squire Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering West Virginia University