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Date:      Thu, 18 May 1995 17:09:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Steven G Kargl  <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: (fwd) Re: Mma for Linux, when?
Message-ID:  <199505190009.RAA01411@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950518182804.7882B-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at May 18, 95 06:29:36 pm

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According to Chuck Robey:
> 
> On Thu, 18 May 1995, Jeffrey Hsu wrote:
> 
> >   >  I'm gonna need Mathematica for next Spring's Diff EQ class, but I don't 
> >   >  know what range of cost (rough idea?) we're talking about.
> > 
> > I guess it would be roughly the same as their Windows and DOS versions,
> > which is $200 for the student version w/ fpu support disabled and
> > double? that for the full version.  We'll have a much better idea
> > when the price of the Linux version is announced (any week now).
> > 
> Mmm, that's a little steep for something I will not rely on greatly.  I'd 
> set an upper limit in my mind of maybe $150 for such school related stuff.
> I'm not likely to need it greatly past 1 or two semesters.
> 
> 

If mathematica is not REQUIRED by the professor for his course and you
only want something to solve ODEs and PDEs, then you might be able to
use octave.

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