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Originally Posted by vetsin View Post
I see you guys are students.
It's nice to have such software at hand but just keep in mind it's still best to know how the software got that answer. Plus, you'll never know when a bug will bite you. Keep a calculator at hand too.
And every CAS softwares (Mathematica, Maple, Maxima, SymPy, etc) have sometimes limitations and bugs.

I'm a physicist teatcher in university (UFES, Brazil), so when my students know how to use a CAS I asked them to solve very hard problems (impossible by hand)

CAS are useful not only to calculate what we can by hand, but mainly to open the doors to solve more complex and realistic problems (in physics, enginneering, etc).

Last edited by rcolistete; 2011-08-10 at 21:23.