SMath Studio - symbolic mathematics workpad software
SMath Studio - symbolic mathematics workpad software
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I came across what appears to be a very promising mathematics software application, especially for engineers: SMath Studio. This is a symbolic mathematics package with a WYSIWYG workpad interface similar to MathCAD, which I really like. The software appears to be in the development stages, but has been stable for me. Try it out and - if you like it - please let the developers know you appreciate it!
http://en.smath.info
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It seems to handle exponentiation overflows rather too gracefully, leastways it had no problem reporting an answer for the factorial of 200.
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Greg - I was just about to say that it seems to give the correct result for exp(200), then I read what you actualy said.
For 200! I get "Result is above max allowed positive number"
(version 0.82, build 3477)
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a:=1
for i:1,i<173,i:=i+1
a:=a*i
a=
gives a remarkably small answer
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The bad news is that for anything iterated it is very slow - a 32 element DFT is more than 2 hours of processing (admittedly not necessarily via an efficient algorithm, but Mathcad solves the same problem with the same approach , for 1024 elements, in about 10 seconds). DFT is an n^2 problem in this approach.
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how are you writting your example
"a:=1
for i:1,i<173,i:=i+1
a:=a*i"
in Mathcad?
I'm sure it's a stupid question, but I'm not able to "programm" that "for" loop in that form (and at all)...
Thanks in advance.
RE: SMath Studio - symbolic mathematics workpad software
i:2;173
x[1:1
x[i:x[(i-1)*i
for the factorial example.
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Greg Locock
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I have a new copy of MathCad, but I still don't know how to use the "for" loop in this case...
I've made it "the old way", like you described, but... shame on me, I still have to practice MathCad...
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see http://
40 minutes from bug report to new build!
Admittedly it desperately needs a manual and help and so on. i've suggested a wiki but that fell on deaf ears.
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Greg Locock
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--Scott
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I'll ask the devs if they are happy with me kicking one off.
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Greg Locock
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Cheers
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Originally I was thinking some form of Mathematica, but now I have options!
--Scott
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The symbolic stuff is better than nothing but way short of Mathcad. The current plan is to use it as a front end to Maxima for symbolics (which rather begs the question why he didn't just use it as a front end to Octave for the matrix stuff?).
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Greg Locock
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Is this program a good place to start?
Or is there any good reason why I should start using this type of software instead of Excel? The macros (VBA) that I use in Excel are only very simple ones. Otherwise, I seem to do alright with the functions in Excel.
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Additionally, SMath, and Mathcad, allow you to define variables, so your calculations can be somewhat self-documenting, so that returning to a calculation 6 months later, you can still read it and figure out what you did.
As discussed above, the visibility of the equations may be important for project documentation, while Excel's equations, even when using named ranges and using formulat display is still difficult to read, and Excel cannot simultaneously display the formulas and their results.
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Greg Locock
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Big thanks to y'all for looking into SMath Studio and running with the investigation!
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management, landscape design, ecosystem
rehabilitation, mathematical simulation
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Thanks.
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Excellent program. Thanks for the link.
Dik
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Dik