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From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: themaxima program from the Mathematica conference.
X-Xxdate: Mon, 28 Sep 92 15:16:30 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:13:34 GMT
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coincidently, i received my awards for the contest via ups a few hours
ago. 1st prize for efficiency and embarassingly, 2nd prize for elegance
for the functional version.

had i realized that TW-J from WRI had assisted in the pattern match
solution, i would have asked that the entry be disqualified. (aren't
employees of the company and their immediate family always supposed to be
ineligible for contest sponsored by a company?).

just kidding...........NOT.

thanks for providing the solution.
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: oscar@meibm4.cen.uiuc.edu (Oscar Ruiz)
Subject: GROBNER BASIS
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:18:35 GMT

I am trying to use Grobner basis to solve problems of consistency and 
existence of solutions of polynomial sets. I have tried Maple, Mathematica
and Macaulay already. THe problem is that even for the most simple systems
the amount of time any one of them take is incredible (if finish at all).
My question is this: Is there any SERIOUS , REAL application of Grobner
basis in software for Geometric Modeling?? If so, could I get in touch with
the people responsible of them so I can contact them for advice??

Does anybody know a non-trivial class of problem for which Grobner basis
is computationally feasible, and, is there a software which does it??


		Thanks a lot.
		OScar E. RUiz S.

		oruiz@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
		oruiz@lebesgue.me.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: jake@skatter.usask.ca
Subject: Re: an indefinite integral
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:18:39 GMT

From article <1a1porINN3j5@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>, by edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar):
> 
> "Not integrable"???  Of course it is integrable.  It is even continuous.
> What you mean to ask is whether the integral is elementary.
> -- 
>   Gerald A. Edgar                Internet:  edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu
>   Department of Mathematics      Bitnet:    EDGAR@OHSTPY
>   The Ohio State University      telephone: 614-292-0395 (Office)
>   Columbus, OH 43210             -292-4975 (Math. Dept.) -292-1479 (Dept. Fax)

Yes, and the way to do that is to get out Liouville's first theorem,
differentiate both sides, and see if the result can be solved.
Abel also has a theorem in this connection if I am not mistaken.

 But this is pretty obvious.

jake

Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: nb@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Nancy Blachman)
Subject: Frequently asked Questions
Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:02:36 GMT

I putting together a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers))
on computer algebra systems.  I would appreciate your sending me 
questions, answers, or other material that might be relevant.

Thanks,

Nancy Blachman
nb@cs.stanford.edu
From: mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Schoonship. Source code is not included.
Date: 27 Sep 92 15:07:00 GMT
Organization: Hokkaido Univ. However I am subject to tansei for JUNET.

I ftp-ed schoonship from archive.umich.edu.
It has no C-source code nor assembler one,
and for ATARI, AMIGA, SUN3, NEXT.  
They are all MC680X0 in their brain.
(I was disapointed to know that my sony WS with MC68K CPU 
was not able to try schoonship.)

I suppose systems are coded in assembler languages.

Writing in assembler language might make best of the CPU's power.
However, today MC680X0 are no longer fast CPUs.

			Hiroshi Murakami
			mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
			hiroshi@teine.chem2.hokudai.ac.jp
From: murison@cfa203.HARVARD.EDU (Marc A. Murison, RG)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: When is next ver. of Maple?
Date: 4 Oct 92 17:47:14 GMT
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

Does anyone know when the next revision/version of Maple
(for DOS machines) is due out?
--Marc Murison   murison@cfa.harvard.edu
From: jcao@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Jingbin Cao)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Calling Mma with options in Emacs?
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:24:14 GMT
Organization: NYU Stern School of Business

Greetings,

I am using the emacs math-mode to run mathematica. Sometimes I need to
call mma with options, use the -noinit to disable reading my lengthy
init.m, or use the -x option to load a dumped core file for examples.
But after reading the math.el file and experimented with some
modifications, I still can't find a way to pass options from emacs to
mma.

I've found a work-around to load core dump files by using Unix
symbolic links, but it's not as elegant as I'd wish. If you have a
solution, I'd like to know. Post if you wish, but please also send me
email, as the news feed at my site goes down often while the guys are
still struggling to set up the network in a new building our school
just moved in. Thanks!

Jingbin
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: symbolic algebra and teaching math/sciences
X-Xxdate: Mon, 5 Oct 92 07:12:53 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:10:45 GMT
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if you want to make it really hard, why not make them work with their
computer or calculator blindfolded?

i don't undrstand the problem. 

when i went to school way back when, we were told to "show all steps". 

can't you use a good program like Mathematica and specify what kinds of
details you want to see handed in ? 

also,  there is nothing that Mathematica does 'automatically' for you
that you can't do with the program in a step-by-step style. just specify
what built-in function operations are not allowed to be used in the
assignment. if the students come up with a way to go around the
restrictions in some unexpected way, that would be good because it shows
they really understand the 'math' that's being done.
From: Pierre Infelta
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Mathematica column vectors
Date: 6 Oct 92 08:13:41 GMT
Reply-To: infelta@icphp1.epfl.ch
Organization: SIC - EPFL

I have trouble handling column vectors on mathematica, since mathematica treats
all vectors as row vectors.
I cannot for example succesfully multiply a 3 rows 1 colum vector by a row 2
column vector and obtain the needed 3 rows 2 column result.
I find it annoying that algorithms can work in all cases excepts the most
simple one.

    1             1 2
  ( 2)  (1 2)  = (2 4)
    3             3 6

Does anyone know a clean solution to this problem??
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Mathematica column vectors
X-Xxdate: Tue, 6 Oct 92 04:34:57 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 09:32:50 GMT
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Subject: Mathematica column vectors
From: Pierre Infelta, 
Date: 6 Oct 92 08:13:41 GMT
In article <4097@sicsun.epfl.ch> Pierre Infelta,  writes:
>I have trouble handling column vectors on mathematica, since mathematica
treats
>all vectors as row vectors.
>I cannot for example succesfully multiply a 3 rows 1 colum vector by a
row 2
>column vector and obtain the needed 3 rows 2 column result.
>I find it annoying that algorithms can work in all cases excepts the most
>simple one.
>
>    1             1 2
>  ( 2)  (1 2)  = (2 4)
>    3             3 6
>
>Does anyone know a clean solution to this problem??
=====================
doesn't this do what you want?

{{1},{2},{3}}.{{1,2}}

{{1, 2}, {2, 4}, {3, 6}}


%//MatrixForm
1   2

2   4

3   6
From: DORN@dirac.physics.jmu.edu (Dr. Dorn Peterson)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: symbolic algebra and teaching math/sciences
Date: 3 Oct 92 15:30:05 GMT
Organization: JMU Physics Dept.
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It seems to me that Maple, Mathematica, etc. have one very great flaw when
they are used by students who are learning some branch of mathematics for
the first time.  That flaw is that they are too #@$% good.  They don't 
leave enough of the strategy part of problem solving to the student.  

If I were to use a symbolic algebra system with undergraduate students is
physics or math I'd prefer to have what I think of as a symbolic calculator
rather than the extensive systems available now.  I want to students to take
charge of the order that operations are done, to decide on the stategy to be
used in arriving at a solution.  All the symbolic calculator does is make sure
that no mechanical errors are made.  Actually "Theorist" on the MAC is probably
pretty close to this (though I've heard people complain about other
limitations.)

Is anybody working on a symbolic algebra system meant specifically for use
by students when they are learning about problem solving?

Dorn Peterson
Dept. of Physics
James Madison Univ.
Harrisonburg, VA
From: beorn@elk.Berkeley.EDU (Beorn Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Algorithms for Computer Algebra group order (again)
Date: 1 Oct 1992 01:58:13 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elk.berkeley.edu

I am re-posting this in case anyone missed it the first time around;
note that I have nine people interested already, so it seems that I
don't have a problem with the minimum order.

If you mailed to me but you didn't get a message confirming it, please
mail again and be sure that you get a reply.

Also, feel free to redistribute this message to anyone else who might
be interested (I don't think there will be many more people interested, so
I don't think I'm flooding myself with too much work).

	Beorn Johnson
	UC Berkeley, EECS/ERL/CAD Group
	(beorn@ic.berkeley.edu)


----------  Original posting

I will collect names for a group order of "Algorithms for Computer Algebra"
by K. O. Geddes, et al.  If we get more than 8 people, the price drops
from $140 to $75 (+ shipping, of course).

I will collect names from everywhere, and if I can manage to break
them up into geographical locations I'll do that.  So far I'm just
collecting names of potentially interested people -- I'll verify for
an actual order if things look like they will work out.  I have
yet to verify the price, etc. with Kluwer, and I'm not guarenteeing
anything at this point.

Please send the following info to "beorn@ic.berkeley.edu":

	Your Name
	Email Address
	Physical Mail address

PLEASE put "Algorithms for Computer Algebra" in the subject of your
letter.


	Thank you,

		Beorn Johnson

PS Doesn't $75 seem so cheap next to $140?  Think how much you save if you
	get two!   What if it was just $75 to start with, would it still
	seem cheap?  I would say average.  Any idea of what a bookstore
	like Cody's, Computer Literacy, or the Stanford Bookstore might
	sell it for?  Maybe all this hassle isn't necessary.


Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: fell@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: schoonship manual
Reply-To: fell@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:25:03 GMT

Does anyone know how to obtain a copy of the scoonship manual. Thanks.
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer)
Subject: Re: symbolic algebra and teaching math/sciences
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
	<1992Oct5.202646.13683@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
	<1aqe9eINN3g4@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:47:09 GMT

In article <1aqe9eINN3g4@agate.berkeley.edu> fateman@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Fateman) writes:

   Some people seem to think that because you can do some symbolic
   (indefinite) integration that these programs would be especially
   useful to courses that teach humans how to do symbolic indefinite
   integration.  This is not at all obvious to me.

Good point.  The goal to have an analysis based approach with
consistency and correctness is beyond the capabilities of systems
which fit on the small computers available in classrooms today.

A differential algebra system could provide indefinite integration
without quirks but then the subject matter has changed (no
epsilon-delta proofs).
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: esc@ulysses.att.com (E. Steve Crandall)
Subject: Inequality plots from Maple
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:54:10 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill


Has anyone managed to implement inequality plots with Maple?
I've been putting together a math lab for some HS students with
Maple and that capability would be very useful (You can do it
with Mathematica, but Mathematica is expensive and will not run
on the 1 Meg Mac Plus machines that the school district owns...)

many thanks
Steve Crandall
evan.crandall@att.com

Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: Douglas B. Stein <doug@wri.com>
Subject: Re: Mathematica column vectors
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:07:57 GMT

In article <Bvp16s.7so@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Richard J. Gaylord,
gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>doesn't this do what you want?
>
>{{1},{2},{3}}.{{1,2}}
>
>{{1, 2}, {2, 4}, {3, 6}}

A general way of getting the column vector would use Transform[] (note
the use of list braces):

Mathematica 2.1 for Macintosh
Copyright 1988-92 Wolfram Research, Inc.

In[1]:= a = Table[i^2,{i,10}]

Out[1]= {1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100}

In[2]:= b = Transpose[{a}]

Out[2]= {{1}, {4}, {9}, {16}, {25}, {36}, {49}, {64}, {81}, {100}}

In[3]:= c = b.{a}

Out[3]= {{1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100}, 
 
>    {4, 16, 36, 64, 100, 144, 196, 256, 324, 400}, 
 
>    {9, 36, 81, 144, 225, 324, 441, 576, 729, 900}, 
 
>    {16, 64, 144, 256, 400, 576, 784, 1024, 1296, 1600}, 
 
>    {25, 100, 225, 400, 625, 900, 1225, 1600, 2025, 2500}, 
 
>    {36, 144, 324, 576, 900, 1296, 1764, 2304, 2916, 3600}, 
 
>    {49, 196, 441, 784, 1225, 1764, 2401, 3136, 3969, 4900}, 
 
>    {64, 256, 576, 1024, 1600, 2304, 3136, 4096, 5184, 6400}, 
 
>    {81, 324, 729, 1296, 2025, 2916, 3969, 5184, 6561, 8100}, 
 
>    {100, 400, 900, 1600, 2500, 3600, 4900, 6400, 8100, 10000}}

In[4]:= d = {a}.b

Out[4]= {{25333}}

------------------------------------------

Doug Stein
Member of Technical Staff
MathLink Development
Wolfram Research, Inc.
doug@wri.com
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Subject: Re: Mathematica Book (2nd ed)
Reply-To: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:09:03 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.105855.26345@doug.cae.wisc.edu> sean@cae.wisc.edu (Sean  
Rutledge) writes:
> In article <2641@ceylon.gte.com> sgutfreund@gte.com writes:
> >My copy of the Mathematica Book (2nd edition) is beginning to
> >fall apart. This is unusual for me, since I am pretty careful
> >with texts.
> >
> 
> Note, this happens more quickly with the paperback, but it
> occurs with the hardcover as well.
> 

I asked Stephen Wolfram about this when I saw him at the Mathematica  
conference.  He said that it was a known problem and that Addison-Wesley was  
trying to correct it.  This doesn't help the current owners, but at least it's  
something.

--
Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
fax:   313-764-2364     Univ of Michigan
                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: sas@tagore.unm.edu (Stephanie Sonnleitner)
Subject: Exterior Algebra for Mathematica
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 02:05:13 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Summary: Need package for Exterior Algebra/2-Spinor Calculus, etc.
Distribution: na
Keywords: Exterior Algebra, Spinor, Connections

I am seeking a mathematica package to perform exterior algebra.  Better yet,
would be a package to wirk with 2-Spinors.  Most Incredible would be one to
calculate spinor connections.  I am aware of FeynArts and FeynCalc.

Currently have a MS-DOS machine.  

Reply by e-mail.(sas@tagore.unm.edu)  Will summarize if useful.

      Stephanie Sonnleitner
From: zaccone@rigel.cs.bucknell.edu (Rick Zaccone)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Notebook for Newton's Method?
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:31:41 GMT
Reply-To: zaccone@bucknell.edu
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
NNTP-Posting-Host: rigel.cs.bucknell.edu

I'm looking for a Mathematica notebook that I can use to demonstrate
Newton's method for finding the root of an equation.  I would prefer
some nice graphics.  Does anyone have some pointers?  I'm using
Mathematica on a Macintosh.

Rick Zaccone
--
zaccone@bucknell.edu
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: How can I join in the SIGSAM?
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:03:24 GMT
Organization: Hokkaido Univ. However I am subject to tansei for JUNET.


	How can I join in the SIGSAM as a member?

Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: dgenr8@leland.Stanford.EDU (Tom Harding)
Subject: Quick Question - Mathematica
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 18:38:25 GMT

Would someone be kind enough to tell me what conceptual shortcoming I am
a victim of in expecting the following tidbit to work:

   Plot3D[Abs[Complex[a, b]], {a, -Pi, Pi}, {b, -Pi, Pi}]

...it is refusing to evaluate the function all the way down to a real number
at each point.  However. it works for Abs[Plus[a, b]], which puzzles me all
the more.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

   -Tom Harding
From: gaylord@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: themaxima program from the Mathematica conference.
Date: 28 Sep 92 09:09:50 GMT

the functional program for maxima (which should have won the programming
contest at the Mathematica conferene) is :

write a program that returns a list of those elements in a list that are
larger than all of the elements to their left

maxima[{4,2,-3,7,9,-1,13,6,28,17,35}]
{4, 7, 9, 13, 28, 35}

maxima[x_] := Union[Rest[FoldList[Max,-Infinity,x]]]

can someone tell what the pattern matching version (which did win the
contest) of this function is
(i need it to show alternative [even if terribly inefficient] programming
styles in Mathematica:

thanks.

richard j. gaylord, university of illinois, gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

"if you're not programming functionally, then you must be programming
dysfunctionally"
From: jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern)
Subject: Converting mma Postscript graphics to Windows MetaFiles
Summary: need a program to do this for my mma graphics
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: postscript windows metafile graphics converter
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:56:36 GMT


I'd like to be able to import the graphs I make in Mathematica into
my word processor, Word for Windows (IBM PC) 2.0, as metafiles, not
bitmaps. But the metafile choice in the Windows Mathematica 2.0 version
seems to not really work right.  I have a Hewlett Packard DeskJet, so
the import Postscript option in Word will not really do the job.  It
seems to me that since conceptually, anyway, the Metafile format is a
device independent format with vectors and fill-areas and the like,
similar to the postscript format, except binary.  And Word will import
and accurately print a metafile.  But Mathematica seems to be just
sending out a bitmap, the quality is so low.  Since I have the student
version, I can't call wri for help.  Help!

Does anyone know of a postscript to Metafile converter?  In fact, does
anyone know of any program allowing one to create metafiles?  All
Word's clipart pictures are metafiles, not bitmaps, but I have no idea
how they created them.  And I can't find anything out about it from the
Windows or Mathematica manuals. 

Thanks for any clues.  Jeff Stern.  jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: Jim.Buddenhagen@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Jim Buddenhagen)
Subject: Maple on 386sx or 386
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:32:52 GMT

I have and IBM PC clone which is a 386sx with 4 meg of memory, running DOS 5.0,
25 mhz.  Is there a version of Maple which will run in this environment?
If so, how well would it run?  Does anyone have personal experience with this? 

Same question for the  386 33mhz, 8meg ram.

Please respond to       jb1556@swuts.sbc.com       or   post.

I will summarize if there is general interest.
--
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From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Re: Notebook for Newton's Method?
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:58:10 GMT
Reply-To: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept

In article <ZACCONE.92Sep28173141@rigel.cs.bucknell.edu>  
zaccone@rigel.cs.bucknell.edu (Rick Zaccone) writes:
> I'm looking for a Mathematica notebook that I can use to  
demonstrate
> Newton's method for finding the root of an equation.  I would  
prefer
> some nice graphics.  Does anyone have some pointers?  I'm  
using
> Mathematica on a Macintosh.
> 
> Rick Zaccone
> --
> zaccone@bucknell.edu

See Roman Maeder's book "Programming in Mathematica", page 85.   
No graphics, but he provides a detailed discussion of how to  
implement this in Mathematica.
--
Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
fax:   313-764-2364     Univ of Michigan
                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
From: franz@cs.washington.edu (Franz G. Amador)
Subject: [Mma 2.0] What are the semantics of "Reduce"?
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 21:26:24 GMT

[Mathematica 2.0 for SPARC]

Is there a formal semantics for Reduce?  In particular, what behavior
can I count on, if any, when I give to Reduce a set of non-independent
equations (i.e. equations which cannot actually be solved for the
desired variables)?  So far, its results have taken the following
form:

A sequence of alternative "solutions" separated by "Or".

Each "solution" is a sequence of equations conjoined by "And".

The first equation(s) in a solution establish equality or inequality
conditions upon any parameters (i.e. variables not being solved for).

The remaining equations in a solution express each solved-for variable
(except the first) in terms of the first solved-for variable.

How much should I depend on this behavior?

Thanks,

Franz Amador
franz@cs.washington.edu
{rutgers,cornell,ucsd,ubc-cs,tektronix}!uw-beaver!june!franz
From: t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Re: cost of Form 2
Date: 3 Oct 92 09:49:47 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

In article <1992Oct3.025026.4365@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, fell@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
> Does anyone have any idea of the academic price of Form 2 for the Next?
> Thanks

Information, including prices can be obtained by sending e-mail either to
form@can.nl
or to
can@can.nl
They are the publisher (CAN = Computer Algebra Nederland. They run an
expertise center for computer algebra, and keep their nose above water
by selling computer algebra software, organizing courses for industry
and getting government subsidies).
Prices may be quoted in dutch guilders. At the moment there are about
1.6 dutch guilders in a dollar.
They may accept credit cards (they were working on it).

Jos Vermaseren