From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Feb 19 08:46:43 2003
Subject: Symbolic math (Was: Derivative function)
From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian dot org>
To: A S Hodel <a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu>,    Ricardo Cervera <ricardo.cervera@hispalinux.es>,    Octave <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:46:33 -0600


> Symbolic derivatives, no, e.g.,
> 
> y = derivative('sin(x)','x');  (derivative of sin(x) with respect to x)
> 
> is not available in Octave.  Someone wrote to this list recently (in 

Ben Sapp wrote code for symbolic math which is part of octave-forge. See e.g.

   http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/navsymbolic.html

Dirk

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