S.O.S. Mathematics CyberBoard

for example... microsoft windows has a pre-loaded calculator that you can do a fair ammount of calculations. Does anyone know of or have programs that are a bit more detailed? I want to be able to enter an equation, tell it to how many decimal places (for example: to the 50th place of pi) and have it solve it. You know, like super-computer style

Programs that do more than just that..... sooo the question is.... are there programs, where can you get them, and how good are they.

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I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to put socks on, I don't have to - Einstein-
I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn't actually reach it.

mathematica is what you are looking for.

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Yah mathematica seems pretty damn powerful..
I've got ver 4.1 here somewhere but I'm not really sure how to use it...

I found if i want to draw graphs to show people then windows XP powertoys comes with PowerCalc, which can plot pretty much any graph you like. Even has polar plotting mode.

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Mother Goose wrote:

When you die and go to heaven, someone asks you: "Hey dcl, you spent all those years learning about them pretty numbers, did you find a use for them eventually?"

"yeah, sure I did, I used calculus to cut out a mousepad out of a teflon baking pan"

my friend's going to give me 5.0, gd!

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try maple! Maple is alot easier to use then Mathematica

Ahhh yes. One of my uncles has that program.. May have to 'borrow' it off him..

Is there anyway i can make these program show step by step working?
plugin or anything??

thanks.

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Mother Goose wrote:

When you die and go to heaven, someone asks you: "Hey dcl, you spent all those years learning about them pretty numbers, did you find a use for them eventually?"

"yeah, sure I did, I used calculus to cut out a mousepad out of a teflon baking pan"