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Re: Need for (FindFit, Refine) ?

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  • Subject: [mg42538] Re: Need for (FindFit, Refine) ?
  • From: Bern <bgress at mail.DOTucr.DOT.edu>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: University of California, Riverside
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Dear Group!

Again I say: "Hear Hear!"

Regards,

Bernard

Ersek, Ted R wrote:
> 	It seems some people misunderstood what I was getting at with the
> new functions FindFit, and Refine.
> 	I agree that these new functions allow us to solve problems we
> couldn't easily solve before. 
> 
> 	However, I suggest that it would have been better if they added to
> the capabilities of Fit and FullSimplify that we are already familiar with.
> 
> 	When they made it so we can solve (Algebraic Differential Equations)
> they didn't make a new function  AlgebraicDSolve[eqn, y, x].  NO they
> improved the  DSolve[eqn, y, x]  that we were already used to.  We always
> had  Simplify[expr], and then they let use state assumtions. They didn't
> make a new function  SimplifyWithAssumptions[expr, assum].  NO they improved
> the Simplify we already knew.
> 






























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