From help-request at octave dot org Thu Feb  3 16:06:23 2005
Subject: Re: differential and integral calculus
From: Przemek Klosowski <przemek at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:10:01 -0500 (EST)

   on 2/3/05 11:32 AM, Andreas Volz at lists at brachttal dot net 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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