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. -- Steven G. Kargl | Phone: 206-685-4677 | Applied Physics Lab | Fax: 206-543-6785 | Univ. of Washington |---------------------| 1013 NE 40th St | FreeBSD 2.1-current | Seattle, WA 98105 |---------------------|
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