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On 11/17/09 08:09, scott wrote:
>> If your colleague can work it out quickly on paper, it shouldn't take
>> long to do it on a computer (Maple, Mathematica, etc).
>
> Sure, but the point is you need to have a good knowledge of calculus to
> even ask Maple of Mathematica to do such things. If you have never been
> taught calculus at university then good luck trying to solve the problem
> with a computer math tool like Mathematica!
Sure, but not that much. I know people who've correctly used computers
to do this while they thought that the integral of a product is the
product of the integrals.
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