From: mheiskan@hut.fi (Mika Heiskanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
Subject: Re: Anybody used MATHLIB card?
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:02:16 GMT
Reply-To: mheiskan@.vipunen.hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

In article <1992Oct4.214121.6279@bmw.mayo.edu> lepard@mayo.edu (Kevin O. Lepard) writes:

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>Has anyone ever seen or used the Engineering and Mathematics Library,
>MATHLIB, card by John Holland?

>It's advertised in the new EduCALC catalog, and it sounds pretty good, but
>before I shell out $140 for it I'd thought I'd see if anyone  who had
>some exposure to it could comment.

>Either email back to me or post here.

>Thanks in advance!


This was in hpcvbbs:classifieds

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Item: 114 by sanker at hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com
Author: [Greg Sanker]
Subj: HP 48SX Engineering Mathematics Library
Keyw: math, engineering, library, john holland, academic press
Date: Tue Sep 22 1992 10:26 

The following announcement comes from John Holland...


Attention HP 48SX Owners!
New from Academic Press...

HP 48SX Engineering Mathematics Library
by John Holland
ISBN: 0-12-352380-X
$139.95
TO ORDER: Phone 1-800-321-5068

This 128K ROM card, enclosed in a casebound, 632 page user manual, is one of
the more powerful and complete mathematics, statistics, linear algebra and
digital signal and data processing packages ever written.
The ROM card contains 715 new user programmable commands, bringing the total
for the 48SX to 1,110.  The user-friendly interface features a special system
of 35 menus grouped by application areas.

Following is a list of contents; the number of user programmable commands for
each subject area appears in parentheses.

Chapter 
1       Overview of Mathematics Library (715)
2       Special Plotting Operations (11)
Part 1: Complex Functions and Approximations
3       Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions (28)
4       Exponential Integral and Related Functions (17)
5       Gamma and Related Functions (11)
6       Error Function and Fresnel Integrals (13)
7       Bessel Functions of Integer Order (19)
8       Spherical Bessel Functions (11)
9       Elliptic Integrals (24)
10      Jacobi Elliptic Functions (35)
11      Theta and Related Functions (41)
12      Confluent Hypergeometric Functions (17)
13      Parabolic Cylinder Functions (11)
14      Gaussian Hypergeometric Functions (5)
15      Legendre and Struve Functions (11)
16      Orthogonal Polynomials (14)
17      Approximation of Functions and Data Sets (29)
18      Number Theory Calculations (21)
Part 2: Basic Symbolic Computation and Matrix Algebra
19      Symbolic Algebra and Calculus (41)
20      Complex Linear Algebra (65)
21      Special Matrix Operations (57)
Part 3: Probability and Statistics Tools
22      Statistical Operations and Tests (47)
23      Probability Distributions (56)
24      Multi-Server Queueing Distributions (11)
Part 4: Vector Calculus, State Space, and Differential Equations
25      Symbolic Arrays and Advanced Calculus (56)
Part 5: Complex Data Analysis and Signal Processing Tools
26      Data Processing and Simulation (47)
27      Filter Design and Analysis (53)
28      FIR Design and Discrete Computations (35)
Part 6: Special Array Operations
29      Special Vector Operations (23)
30      Vector Scalar Algebra (29)
31      Matrix Scalar Algebra (31) 

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Sounds interesting to me too. Anybody out there who knows more?



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