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CAS: (2^10)! is undefined?
11-09-2018, 10:09 AM
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RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined?
(10-28-2018 10:33 AM)parisse Wrote:  Well, as I already said, talk is cheap. I think many people greatly underestimate the work required to build a standard full-featured CAS. This is probably not a coincidence that all calculators CAS were outsourced (well, except for the HP28/48 symbolic engine, but it's symbolic capabilities were very limited). Another thing to keep in mind is that most components of the CAS are highly interdependant, a small change in one component may have side-effects in other components (that's why regression tests based on integration are very effective), that's why I'm very conservative with any change people ask.
Probably someone can build a toy-CAS that would return answers more similar to what some teachers expect from highschools students for problems that can be solved by mental computation. But this is in my opinion a bad usage of CAS, a CAS should not be used to replace your brain. It should be used where it is more efficient than our brain, i.e. for real computations.

Totally agree!

Tout à fait d'accord!

Guy R. KOMAN, hp 50G, hp Prime Rev. C
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CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - sasa - 10-27-2018, 03:41 AM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - parisse - 10-27-2018, 04:58 AM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - sasa - 10-27-2018, 05:13 AM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - Voldemar - 10-27-2018, 09:59 AM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - parisse - 10-27-2018, 03:27 PM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - sasa - 10-27-2018, 04:56 PM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - parisse - 10-27-2018, 06:31 PM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - sasa - 10-27-2018, 07:59 PM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - sasa - 10-27-2018, 08:55 PM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - sasa - 10-27-2018, 10:17 PM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - NetMage - 10-28-2018, 03:14 AM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - parisse - 10-28-2018, 06:17 AM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - Aries - 10-28-2018, 10:30 AM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - parisse - 10-28-2018, 10:33 AM
RE: CAS: (2^10)! is undefined? - Komanguy - 11-09-2018 10:09 AM



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