On Feb 25, 8:15 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 2/25/12 1:48 AM, tkosan wrote: > > > Most general-purpose CASs are not able to show steps like this because > > they use more advanced mathematical techniques than humans do. The > > research I have been doing indicates that only a CAS that has been > > specifically designed to perform mathematics like a human typically > > does is able to show these steps. > > I'd just like to point out that Wolfram Alpha can often show steps in > simple problems. For example, see:
xyalgebra always has a booth at the Joint Meetings and is explicitly designed to do the steps. http://www.xyalgebra.org/ Also, just for information, I believe that MathPiper is based on Yacas (though extended since then, naturally), so familiarity with the syntax of Yacas would help with Ted's project. And as a really interesting information point, if you go to http://yacas.sourceforge.net/homepage.html and click on MyYacas, you get an interactive session somewhere between the notebook and the Sage cell in design and purpose. - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
