home.swipnet.se— Ump is a program in which all sorts of calculations can be done, from the simplest to the more advanced. It handles complex numbers and matrices of those.
Jul 10, 2006View in Crawl 4
He was dugg down ONCE. I think the argument comes in by the fact that the ARTICLE in question address graphing equations and computing complex formulas/numbers, which is probably close to the purpose of Mathematica as opposed to MATLABs "data manipulation" centric purpose.
wow...to think at some point I too programmed mainly on a TI-86...oh for the good ol days when math consisted of polynomials and systems of 3 or perhaps 4 equations. When a proof consisted of 4 or five lines and used the SAS properties of a triangle. Now its thousands of lines of code with my good friend Matlab...and problems that rarely have a right or wrong answer, without checking it for a month or two, and even then when you are pretty sure you have it, the possible misplacement of a few key semi-colons or miscalculated indices keeps you awake at night...sigh (from a graduate student in Computational Mathematics).
The people here reminiscing about "graphical calculators" mostly used them in classes where they were required. So in addition to having to understand the underlying math, we had to spend our time applying it to higher level problems instead of just writing crap out by hand. In addition, for many people these were the first things they used to really write software. Great little machines.Yes there was that time where you could abuse these things for clueless teachers, but they pretty much caught on by 1995. Maybe your backwards little country needs to catch up with the times ;)
melophobia07Jul 10, 2006
Sure would be nice if someone did
stesunJul 10, 2006
I think i stick with matlab for now!
obsidian743Jul 10, 2006
Ask yourself: can MATLAB graph, in full color 3D, a 6-brane Calabi-Yau manifold?
obsidian743Jul 10, 2006
He was dugg down ONCE. I think the argument comes in by the fact that the ARTICLE in question address graphing equations and computing complex formulas/numbers, which is probably close to the purpose of Mathematica as opposed to MATLABs "data manipulation" centric purpose.
candiruJul 10, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://home.swipnet.se/ump/images/splash1.png">http://home.swipnet.se/ump/images/splash1.png</a>^^ ew.
munkey906Jul 10, 2006
wow...to think at some point I too programmed mainly on a TI-86...oh for the good ol days when math consisted of polynomials and systems of 3 or perhaps 4 equations. When a proof consisted of 4 or five lines and used the SAS properties of a triangle. Now its thousands of lines of code with my good friend Matlab...and problems that rarely have a right or wrong answer, without checking it for a month or two, and even then when you are pretty sure you have it, the possible misplacement of a few key semi-colons or miscalculated indices keeps you awake at night...sigh (from a graduate student in Computational Mathematics).
wizghaJul 10, 2006
You Americans have it way too easy. Exams in here, up to college level, explicitely ban "graphical calculators" from being used in exams.
eatmorgnomeJul 11, 2006
The people here reminiscing about "graphical calculators" mostly used them in classes where they were required. So in addition to having to understand the underlying math, we had to spend our time applying it to higher level problems instead of just writing crap out by hand. In addition, for many people these were the first things they used to really write software. Great little machines.Yes there was that time where you could abuse these things for clueless teachers, but they pretty much caught on by 1995. Maybe your backwards little country needs to catch up with the times ;)
karchJul 11, 2006
Ahahaha crilen - PWND.