At 11:08 PM Tuesday 4/19/2005, Dan Minette wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Ockrassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:04 PM Subject: Re: One more!
> On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > > At 09:23 PM Tuesday 4/19/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: > > >> If you can get me a program to run it, > > > > <<http://store.wolfram.com/catalog/>> > > US$900! (Won't bother trying to calculate that.) Ouch! I hadn't > realized Mathematica was that significantly priced. > > Humm. Humm. Googlicious ... OK, here's an interesting package called > HartMath, which appears to do symbolic calculations, is Java based (!) > and is free:
What was Microsoft FORTRAN and then became Compaq FORTRAN and may be HP FORTRAN now has IMSL installed. It is a wondrous callable library of mathematical functions....and I got it with FORTRAN for a few hundred dollars for the package. If you want to throw fits at numbers, that's the way to go....as well as do a zillion other things. Mathamatica is a toy in comparison.
Which one is best depends on what you are trying to do atm. (I have both, tho I haven't gotten around to reinstalling the FORTRAN on this machine yet.) In this particular case, doing it in FORTRAN would be a little more complicated than typing "Factorial [1000000]" and pressing Shift+Enter . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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