Mathematica 5.2

[tbullet]

Anyone a fan of this software, notably Derivatives III?

Worth the cash?

[lightw1thoutheat]

very good program, kinda difficult to use. its extremely well programmed from a mathematical perspective. i get a free license at school, so im not sure how price factors into it. whats the price?

[DanK]

I use this for analysing all my labs and for various other calculational work required. The program does petty much everything Iv ever needed, though it has a somewhat steep learning curve. If you are a student you can get it for like 300 bucks

[Slagar]

I took a class on Mathematica, there are also some pretty good books out there, though the latest one is for v4. I love Mathematica, it's a great tool. I get it free through my school.

[cts]

Definitely the best mathematics software out there.

[Hobbs.]

I'm a huge fan of mathematica, but if what you are doing requires writing a lot of loops it can be kind of a pain.

[spanshcastlemagc]

mathematica is awesome, im not nearly smart enough to use it extensively though

[gasoltub]

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Definitely the best mathematics software out there.

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Now that definitely depends.
Matlab rocks for numerical math.
Mathematica rocks for symbolic math.

[Nottom]

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Definitely the best mathematics software out there.

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Now that definitely depends.
Matlab rocks for numerical math.
Mathematica rocks for symbolic math.

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From what I understand Matlab has a problem with dealing with extremely large integers.

[gasoltub]

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Definitely the best mathematics software out there.

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Now that definitely depends.
Matlab rocks for numerical math.
Mathematica rocks for symbolic math.

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From what I understand Matlab has a problem with dealing with extremely large integers.

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If by extremely large you mean larger than 64 bit integers then I guess you're right.

[Nottom]

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Definitely the best mathematics software out there.

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Now that definitely depends.
Matlab rocks for numerical math.
Mathematica rocks for symbolic math.

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From what I understand Matlab has a problem with dealing with extremely large integers.

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If by extremely large you mean larger than 64 bit integers then I guess you're right.

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That is indeed what I mean. Mathematica on the other hand will happily compute (342! + 7^123)^2 for me.

It happens to be:
35387390571897599113367673308668068031528181483800 9689877000445907821939196950\
31991634577537409448448609688000255693971856293451 2170121351657721199347449870\
66357643897936608150885668524864976926655802668848 9906092071457974780874167567\
39020182158242053476471769432656775672418997460133 4921090437341998890082212338\
34285562610760878237022150474628115021717619848872 0285145183145413308931667474\
47097906813967385141055536107396798755981497901673 1821487723248312026322701813\
29805792917752895727119964745025990330817792455777 7124654800675797714340924109\
10147831269674978851186405477146342792080288042690 7960627500454673923805083654\
43336706521692420373560955055467029147704660136121 9296129490756111522653767833\
96892481437603293175088351187922744185172948657061 9817397184913908551572494571\
60368351416958561744836768714884765429147093024384 5967687346831616821002067863\
23870559032777632510692457919887502196505588802417 0313907080621877295603253264\
95176917905105116503908207727995344449230872499029 5284936026419605231608316384\
39846303821411702457856626855585745490558829368521 0736080627219251863292925462\
28315858203912730993140144663448036423823714421896 9003685551179097864001053121\
58829713953438095057011583514181952615509554540751 5865816790043316005096224102\
75405949323864952912049124654975905036608306859033 8833774856696454226378102715\
38250264531741242434891635947270056908016041736820 5829537817166243849695231586\
374009167555454321313879950746373649

[gasoltub]

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Definitely the best mathematics software out there.

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Now that definitely depends.
Matlab rocks for numerical math.
Mathematica rocks for symbolic math.

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From what I understand Matlab has a problem with dealing with extremely large integers.

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If by extremely large you mean larger than 64 bit integers then I guess you're right.

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That is indeed what I mean. Mathematica on the other hand will happily compute (342! + 7^123)^2 for me.

It happens to be:
35387390571897599113367673308668068031528181483800 9689877000445907821939196950\
31991634577537409448448609688000255693971856293451 2170121351657721199347449870\
66357643897936608150885668524864976926655802668848 9906092071457974780874167567\
39020182158242053476471769432656775672418997460133 4921090437341998890082212338\
34285562610760878237022150474628115021717619848872 0285145183145413308931667474\
47097906813967385141055536107396798755981497901673 1821487723248312026322701813\
29805792917752895727119964745025990330817792455777 7124654800675797714340924109\
10147831269674978851186405477146342792080288042690 7960627500454673923805083654\
43336706521692420373560955055467029147704660136121 9296129490756111522653767833\
96892481437603293175088351187922744185172948657061 9817397184913908551572494571\
60368351416958561744836768714884765429147093024384 5967687346831616821002067863\
23870559032777632510692457919887502196505588802417 0313907080621877295603253264\
95176917905105116503908207727995344449230872499029 5284936026419605231608316384\
39846303821411702457856626855585745490558829368521 0736080627219251863292925462\
28315858203912730993140144663448036423823714421896 9003685551179097864001053121\
58829713953438095057011583514181952615509554540751 5865816790043316005096224102\
75405949323864952912049124654975905036608306859033 8833774856696454226378102715\
38250264531741242434891635947270056908016041736820 5829537817166243849695231586\
374009167555454321313879950746373649

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meh. matlab fails at 171! already.
Well, it's all about what you need to do of course.

[Nottom]

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meh. matlab fails at 171! already.
Well, it's all about what you need to do of course.

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Indeed. I've never used matlab but hear good things about it.

FWIW I think Mathematica maxes out at around 1.92*10^646456887

[wmspringer]

I've never really used it, but my adviser when I was working on my MSCS did everything with it. (Including her presentations....I'm happy just using powerpoint! :-p)

[Hobbs.]

Rigth now I'm using a combination of
mathematica
idl
and some matlab
depending on which ones are the easiest to program for a given problem.