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Re: differential and integral calculus
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Henry F. Mollet |
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Re: differential and integral calculus |
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Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:37:11 -0800 |
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Octave is a numerical program not a symbolic program, if this is the correct
terminology. Symbolic programs exist and they will probably do the things
you would like to do.
Henry
on 2/3/05 11:32 AM, Andreas Volz at address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a octave newbie and try to work with differential and integral
> calculus. I need some help to get a working example for this. Could you
> help me?
>
> Here is a simple example:
>
> f(x)=x^3+-2x^2+5
> f'(x)=3x^2-4x
>
> and for example integrating f'(x) to see that f(x) results.
>
> And what is with more difficult calculations? I know only the german
> names, so perhaps I do a wrong translation. What is with chain rule
> (Kettenregel), quotient rule (Quotientenregel) or all the other funny
> things to do differential or integral calculus. Could octave detect
> which rule to use for which function or have I to tell octave the right
> rule? Can octave do a differential calculus for this?
>
> f(x)=(x^2-3x)*sin x
> f'(x)=?
>
> I hope someone could help me with this questions. Some friends are
> working with matlab or maple and told me this is working with this apps.
> So I hope it works also with octave.
>
> regards
> Andreas
>
>
>
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