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Old 10-29-2007, 07:17 PM
thedustbustr thedustbustr is offline
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Default Re: Mathematica= the nuts

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Actually there is very little that Matlab can do that Mathematica can't do.

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perhaps in your discipline. mathematica is for theorists and academics. matlab is for engineers.

you ain't gonna prototype signal processing algorithms in mathematica. I'm sure you could to prove a point, but mathematica is not designed for that. You don't do much algebra in engineering, so what use is a computer algebra suite?

Maybe I'm wrong, I've barely used mathematica, but my physics II professor loved it. My theoretical math classes were Maple intensive. And every upper level engineering class I've ever taken uses matlab.
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