Re: differential and integral calculus

[Przemek Klosowski]

   on 2/3/05 11:32 AM, Andreas Volz at address@hidden wrote:

   > 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 Henry Mollet answered

   Octave is a numerical program not a symbolic program, if this is the correct
   terminology.

True, but for the examples that the Other Poster gave, Octave can help. Since 
his
functions were polynomials in x, one could use Octave's polyderiv and polyinteg 
functions.



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