From help-request at octave dot org Sat Feb 5 09:10:19 2005 Subject: Re: differential and integral calculus From: Cederik de Leon To: help at octave dot org Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:14:15 -0600 For Symbolic calculations try Maxima, from http://maxima.sourceforge.net Sorry Paul, the message was wrond sent Regards On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:32:30 +0100, Andreas Volz wrote= : > Hi, >=20 > 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? >=20 > Here is a simple example: >=20 > f(x)=3Dx^3+-2x^2+5 > f'(x)=3D3x^2-4x >=20 > and for example integrating f'(x) to see that f(x) results. >=20 > And what is with more difficult calculations? I know only the german > names, so perhaps I do a wrong translation. What is with chain rule > (Kettenregel), quotient rule (Quotientenregel) or all the other funny > things to do differential or integral calculus. Could octave detect > which rule to use for which function or have I to tell octave the right > rule? Can octave do a differential calculus for this? >=20 > f(x)=3D(x^2-3x)*sin x > f'(x)=3D? >=20 > I hope someone could help me with this questions. Some friends are > working with matlab or maple and told me this is working with this apps. > So I hope it works also with octave. >=20 > regards > Andreas >=20 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. >=20 > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- >=20 >=20 --=20 E. F. M. Cederik L. De Le=F3n Acu=F1a cederik at gmail dot com Tel: +52 (443) 312 68 45 Cel: +52 (443) 136 83 36 Morelia Michoacan M=E9xico ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------