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Re: Guessing "exact" values

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• Subject: [mg76252] Re: Guessing "exact" values
• From: Roman <rschmied at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 06:21:45 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <f2eim0$t2f$1@smc.vnet.net>

Check out the "inverse symbolic calculator" at
   http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/ISC/
Roman.

On May 16, 11:25 am, Szabolcs <szhor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Another computer algebra system" has a function, identify(), which
> attempts to guess the exact expression that evaluates to a particular
> numerical value.
>
> Example:
>
> In[1]:= N[3Pi+3/2,10]
>
> Out[1]= 10.92477796
>
>  > identify(10.92477796);
>                                    3
>                                    - + 3 Pi
>                                    2
>
> Is there a package with similar functionality for Mathematica?
>
> Szabolcs