i second that motion but I already responded personally to helen.
However, I forgot to mention the internet capabilities of scientific
notebook.
SN can travel the web and visit web pages on any server that have been
saved in tex format. In other words SN has to ability to act as a
'browser' for mathie documents in tex format and is smart enough to
handle the controls over to your browser of choice when you wish to
transfer to an url containing a web pages that is formatted in html
format. That is an incredible edge over anything else that i have seen.
Jay Malmstrom wrote:
> Helen Burn wrote:
>
> > hello!
> >
> > I read loads of these messages and reply or ask a question once in a
>
> > while. Here's one:
> >
> > We're submitting a proposal to purchase one of the major software
> > packages for each of the 14 math faculty in our department. Of
> primary
> > importance is the ability to produce graphics that can be imported
> into a
> > MS Word document. I know Mathematica has this ability, as does
> Maple.
> > What about Derive?
> >
> > We're leaning towards Derive since we believe it will take up less
> disk
> > space. Is this true?
> >
> > Any input?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Helen Burn, Instructor
> > Department of Mathematics
> > Highline Community College
> > Des Moines, WA
> >
> >
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> Helen,
>
> May I suggest another alternative - Scientific Notebook. It contains
> a Maple
> kernal and acts as both a word processor as well as a CAS. It retails
> for about
> $60 a copy and you can get a 30 day review copy. The web site is
> www.scinotebook.com. Slight more expensive is MathView. It is a
> Waterloo-Maple
> product which uses a palette for composing mathematical expressions.
> The
> surface plots it produces are excellent and I have found that most
> students
> prefer it to Derive. It goes for about $125.
>
> Jay Malmstrom
> Oklahoma City Community College
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