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From: bill@hao.UUCP (Bill Roberts)
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Subject: Algebraic manipulators for the Mac
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 15:30:47 EDT
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Has anyone in netland heard of any algebraic manipulator systems for the 
MacIntosh?  I recently saw were a company called Industrial Computations Inc.
of Wellesley, MA is marketing a program called "PowerMath".  The ad reads

		Type in your problem, using conventional math notation, and
		PowerMath will solve your calculus, algebra and matrix
		problems.  PowerMath does factorials, summations, simultaneous
		equations, plots, Taylor series, trigonometry and allows 
		unlimited number size.  

That last statement ("...unlimited number size.") hints at PowerMath being a 
symbolic computation engine as opposed to an equation solver like TKSolver.
Thanks in advance for any input.

								Bill Roberts
								NCAR/HAO
								Boulder, CO
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