[sdiy] OT: Mathcad users?

[Peter]

Interestingly, Microsoft has a decent math package, Microsoft 
Mathematics4.0 which is free.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/ww/products/Pages/mathematics.aspx

Peter

On 9/15/2013 11:24 AM, Phil Macphail wrote:
> Nice hough the equation editor in Word is, it doesn't have the
> computational capabilities of the packages listed. It has always seemed
> like a missed opportunity to me, given that there is fair amount of
> capability in Excel, but I guess the market is just too small. Although it
> is large enough for MathCad to have lasted a very long time.
>
> On 15/09/2013 20:09, "David G Dixon" <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>>> MathCad , Matlab, Mathematica, and possibly sciLab seem to be
>>> the tools for equation writing.
>> I've personally never used anything but the Microsoft Equation Editor
>> inside
>> Word (or, back in my DOS days, the equation editor in Word Perfect).  And
>> I
>> have written a whole lot of equations in my career, being a mathematical
>> modeler and all.
>>
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