[Scilab-users] integrals

[Rafael Guerra]

What about Mathematica?  Or just the free Wolfram Alpha?

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From: users [mailto:users-bounces at lists.scilab.org] On Behalf Of Tim Wescott
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 8:01 PM
To: Pablo Fonovich <pablo_f_7 at hotmail.com>
Cc: Users mailing list for Scilab <users at lists.scilab.org>
Subject: Re: [Scilab-users] integrals

+1 on what Pablo said -- Maxima and/or WxMaxima was what I was going to
recommend (WxMaxima is not only a nice point-and-click interface for
Maxima, it's also a good training tool -- if you try, you can use
WxMaxima to train you up on the Maxima command line.)

Just as a warning: I've used both Maxima and Maple (the commercial
'replacement' for Maxima), and both of them will leave you unsatisfied
if your expectations are too high.  Both applications can reduce "easy"
problems, but as you get to more difficult problems to solve, or if
you're looking for specific simplifications, they fall down.  You can
push their usefulness further by using them as handy calculators for
parts of your problem, or as a check on your work, but ultimately if the
problem at hand is difficult enough there'll have to be some human
neurons hard at work to find the solution.

On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 14:12 -0300, Pablo Fonovich wrote:
> Hi:
> As tim stated before, scilab does numerical calculation of integrals,
> very usefull for ingeneering problems for example... but does not
> provide any function for symbolic calculation of integrals. If you
> really need symbolic computation of an integral, i would recommend you
> using maxima, or wxmaxima if you are a begginner... There is also a
> toolbox for doing symbolic calculation trhough maxima in scilab called
> "scimax", you could try it if you want to do everything in scilab, but
> i think is a bit outdated.
> 
> May i ask you why you need to do a symbolic calculation?
> 
> 
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> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 08:48:15 -0600
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> To: tim at wescottdesign.com; users at lists.scilab.org
> Subject: Re: [Scilab-users] integrals
> 
> symbolic solutions
> 
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