I'm doubtful that anyone cares, but it seems scilab can't do indefinite integrals, so I would have been better off using the TI 89 anyway.
-Eric Hattemer On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 23:14, Eric Hattemer wrote: > So I'm sitting here doing math homework and I want to make sure that > integral(cos(nx)) is equal to sin(nx)/n, as I believe it to be. Now I > could use my incredibly expensive calculator (and probably should), but > I'm sitting in front of a computer, so I decide to look for a program > like matlab that'd do the job. So I run a search and run into some > university page that says what they have installed on their unix > system. Matlab, Mathematica, and Scilab, which it lists as open > source. I figured it might be something that I'd have to find, > download, compile, find I have missing packages, mess around for a few > hours, then give up. But just in case, I go to my terminal and type > "urpmi scilab<tab>" and sure enough, it gives me the choice to download > scilab-2.6xx. I was really amazed at how easy that was. Seriously, if > all you've ever used is redhat, give mandrake a try. Its really neat. > Its contrib sources make it really easy to get unsupported 3rd party > programs, and they encourage people to compile their favorite packages > and put them in there. Redhat doesn't usually do anything like that. > Then if you want, you can check out plf.zarb.org, which has all the > latest in not quite legal linux programs available for mandrake too. > Its not all subversive evil stuff. There's things like dvd players, mp3 > encoders, etc. in there. Try the German mirror. Its really fast for me > (100KByte/s) here in LA. > > -Eric Hattemer > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >
