Mathematica3.0 question
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- Subject: [mg5192] Mathematica3.0 question
- From: biellak at joermungand.Stanford.EDU (Steve Biellak)
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 02:02:02 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi. I am evaluating the trial edition of Mathematica 3.0. I had a question which is probably obvious but since I only have the online help manuals I am having problems. If I take the expression InverseFourierTransform[Exp[-I d fx^2 Pi/(2 lambda)],fx,x] Mathematica gives me a nice answer. However, it won't give me an answer to InverseFourierTransform[Exp[-I d Pi/lambda (1-fx^2/2)],fx,x] no matter how I break up the exponent, into the constant term and the variable term. Sure, since one term is constant, I can omit it a priori, but there must be a way for Mathematica to handle this properly? btw, I'm trying to decide whether my company should buy MM 3.0, or some other system (when it becomes available). if anyone has any speed comparisons for numerical manipulations or plotting between MM 3.0 and other systems for Windows or WinNT i'd be interested in seeing them. (i know, that different programs aren't designed for the same purposes. but as long as the numeric computation speed hit isn't too great we'd prefer the symbolic stuff of Mathematica. ) thanks Steve Biellak biellak at joey.stanford.edu