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Evaluating CSC TEDDS "The Calculation Pad for the Professional Enginee

Evaluating CSC TEDDS "The Calculation Pad for the Professional Enginee

Evaluating CSC TEDDS "The Calculation Pad for the Professional Enginee

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Evaluating CSC TEDDS "The Calculation Pad for the Professional Engineer" - any comments on this software.

RE: Evaluating CSC TEDDS "The Calculation Pad for the Professional Enginee

MarkRPflow,

A similar software is MATHSERV. This is a server engine that lets you write an advanced form of BASIC code in any Windows word processor. Expressions can be as simple as =3.5*4.5, where the answer replaces the expression, or commented command lines, for example:

angles in degrees, A = {10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45}
convert to radians, A = A*_pi/180
print A, sin(A), cos(A)

The language includes powerful commands for matrix manipulation, graphics generation, statistical calculations and numerical analysis. Type casting is automatic, array generation is dynamic. A really handy tool which I use daily in my work because it eliminates transcription errors, lets you see mis-fingered values, and presents a neat design audit trail with graphics in Wordpad or any other word processor.

RE: Evaluating CSC TEDDS "The Calculation Pad for the Professional Enginee

Where does one get Mathserv from?


ttracewicz@atsspartec.on.ca

RE: Evaluating CSC TEDDS "The Calculation Pad for the Professional Enginee

You might also try MathCad.  It bills itself as an electronic chalkboard.  It uses straight mathematic notation instead of programming and it does units.  It would look like the following using guests example:

A := (15,30,45,60,75,90} deg
sin(A) = (0.259, 0.5, 0.707, 0.866, 0.966, 1)

Additionally, square roots and other math symbols are displayed as square roots not a sqrt() function.

For very serious symbolic calculation, it has the MAPLE engine built in.

Imagineer


RE: Evaluating CSC TEDDS "The Calculation Pad for the Professional Enginee

You remember the old MS Word version 4.0? It had a feature where you could type an arithmetic expression, highlight it and click "Calculate". In its ultimate wisdom, MS dropped this feature from later versions.

I used the feature a lot, therefore, I wrote my own little routine to add it to any word processor.

Like other engineers, I also solved many problems by writing a few simple lines of BASIC code. The only nuisance was that this had to be run in a separate interpreter. So I extended the "Calculate" routine to interpret BASIC code directly in any word processor and store the variables in a document-related data base.

This was the genesis of MATHSERV. If you email me on engcomp@hinet.net.au, I shall be happy to send you more information and a FREE copy for your evaluation.

Of course, there are numerous other tools like MathCAD, MATLAB, CSC TEDDS and some very powerful spreadsheets. I often use the latter, but for comprehensive design audit trails MATHSERV is my favourite.

Regards, Helmut Schmidhofer
engcomp@hinet.net.au

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