Re: math modelling

[David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:29:22PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
> I'm looking for free software which is suited for modelling. For
> example, I'd like to simulate a flying cannonball with something like
> this:
<snip>
> It is primarily intented to teach students how a mathematical model
> works.
<snip>
> I think it may be possible to do this in basically every algebra system,
> like octave, yacas, etc. but I'd like to do this as easily as possible.

I've looked at some suggestions, both on and off list, and I decided to
settle for octave, for now. Both scilab and R seemed much to overpowered
for my needs. Maxima with the texmacs interface looked very nice, too.
I will look at them again when I want to do something else...

Thanks, David

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