Re: [seul-edu] [no longer OT] summation of 1/2x

[Rakis <rakis@wt.net>]

	As horrid as this is going to sound, FORTRAN is an excellent number
crunching language. Personally, I can't stand the language but I know it's
still widely used in the engineering fields. Odds are there's something much
better out there I don't know of. However, I do remember seeing several
math-only programming languages while surfing the net. If I could remember
where I saw em, I'd point ya to em but sadly I do no remember :(.  
	I do know that there are all kinds of libraries out there for C to do
advanced mathematics, but again, you have to deal with bad syntax (for students
anyway). Other than that, I can't think of anything. You might try searching
the web for some of those number crunching languages, I'm posistive they're out
there.

	Cheers,

	Rakis

On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Actually, this gets me thinking again about Brian's original question --
> what language is best for doing mathematical demonstrations? I think we all
> (me included) answered this question with too little thought about the
> specific needs of mathematics.