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Computer algebra systems: DERIVE®.

A review of DERIVE, Version 2.55, Extended Memory Version 2.55X, and Version 2.60. DERIVE is a symbolic mathematics package that is particularly suited to undergraduate mathematics and that operates in an MS DOS environment. It might be assumed that DERIVE is less well suited to use by statisticia...

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Published in:American Statistician Vol. 49; pp. 93 - 100
Main Author: Nash, John C.
Format: Article
Published: American Statistical Association February 1995
Subjects:
Algebra education
Computer software
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:A review of DERIVE, Version 2.55, Extended Memory Version 2.55X, and Version 2.60. DERIVE is a symbolic mathematics package that is particularly suited to undergraduate mathematics and that operates in an MS DOS environment. It might be assumed that DERIVE is less well suited to use by statisticians in their research of technical work because of its compact size and the attention to the educational audience. However, it is a worthwhile tool for several types of work, and it has relatively powerful capabilities that have broad usefulness where mathematical methods are applied.