Re: Mathematica 5.0 for students.
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- Subject: [mg43528] Re: Mathematica 5.0 for students.
- From: james.h.gilland at grc.nasa.gov (Jim)
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:41:51 -0400 (EDT)
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sean kim <shawn_s_kim at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<bkc1dn$b0f$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > k. now a different kinda question. > > does anyone have any expriences with student version of the Mathematica 5? > > I actually bought the program today but I haven't installed it yet, in > the fear of it causing problems... ( i had to reformat my computer due > to some problems.) > > i was wondering... > > 1. Can I have both Mathematica 4.0 and Mathematica 5 on a same machine? if so do i just > install them in diferent directory? I have them in the same directory, and they work fine. That's on a Mac, running OSX. > > 2. will the packages written for older Mathematica versions still work with the > new Mathematica 5? Not necessarily - I'm having difficulties with some packages (ones with numerical evaluations such as NDSolve); while others that are symbolic in nature do work fine. > > thanks all. > > sean > > ===== > when riding a dead horse, some dismount. > > while others... > > write memoirs on the subject of riding a dead horse. > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com