Calculators for Math Majors?

drbott
Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:49:32 +0000

Matlab stands for MATrix LABoratory. It’s a computer algebra package made by Mathworks, specifically designed to do very, very quick floating-point calculations - meaning that it has great application in numerical analysis, but relatively limited application in symbolic analysis. Using Matlab, for instance, over 1,000,000 simultaneous equations, each in that same number of variables, can be processed efficiently, on today’s computers.