From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 18 17:13:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA27036 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 May 1995 17:13:52 -0700 Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.97.216]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA27029 ; Thu, 18 May 1995 17:13:50 -0700 Received: (from kargl@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA01411; Thu, 18 May 1995 17:09:33 -0700 From: Steven G Kargl Message-Id: <199505190009.RAA01411@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Mma for Linux, when? To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 17:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at May 18, 95 06:29:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1119 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 |---------------------|