| Product |
Maple™ 10 |
Mathematica® 5.2 |
Mathcad® 12 |
MATLAB® R14 |
Ease-of-Use |
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| Natural 2D Math Equation Editor |
• |
- |
• |
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| Context-sensitive Math Menus |
• |
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|
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| Symbol Palettes: number of symbols |
1179 |
841 |
72 |
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| Handwriting Recognition |
• |
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| Interactive plotting assistants (2D, 3D, Animation) |
• |
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| Interactive optimisation assistant |
• |
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| Interactive ODE solving assistant |
• |
• |
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| Interactive tutors for teaching and learning |
• |
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| Graphing Calculator Interface |
• |
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| Interactive Document |
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| Document Layout - Presentation Control |
• |
|
• |
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| Support of Units and Conversions |
• |
|
• |
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| Support of tolerances on variables |
• |
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| 2D plotting with interactive scaling |
• |
|
• |
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| 3D Plotting with interactive rotation and tumbling |
• |
|
• |
- |
| Embedded GUI Components |
• |
• |
• |
- |
| Integrated Math Dictionary |
• |
- |
|
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| XML-based documents |
• |
|
• |
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| Mathematical Power |
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| Symbolic and Algebraic solving |
• |
• |
- |
+ |
| Arbitrary floating-point precision |
• |
• |
- |
+ |
| IEEE 754 numeric standard compliant |
• |
|
|
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| Professional statistics including SPC |
• |
• |
- |
+ |
| Numeric Differential Equation Solving |
• |
• |
- |
• |
| Closed form ODE & PDE Solving |
• |
• |
|
+ |
| Solve large Matrix/Linear Algebra problems |
• |
• |
|
• |
| High-performance, industry-standard numeric libraries |
LAPACK, ATLAS, NAG |
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|
LAPACK, ATLAS |
| Non-linear optimisation |
• |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Full Programming Language |
• |
• |
|
• |
| Connectivity |
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| MathML 2.0 presentation and content support |
• |
• |
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| C/C++ code generation |
• |
+ |
|
+ |
| Java code generation |
• |
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| FORTRAN code generation |
• |
+ |
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| Visual Basic code generation |
• |
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| MATLAB code generation |
• |
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|
• |
| RTF document export |
• |
|
• |
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| LaTeX document export |
• |
• |
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| XML document export |
• |
• |
• |
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| HTML document export |
• |
• |
• |
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| Excel Link |
• |
+ |
• |
+ |
| Save document as interactive Web page |
• |
|
• |
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Testing and Assessment |
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| Embedded Testing and Assessment |
• |
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| On-line Testing and Assessment |
Maple TA |
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|
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Add-on Products |
|
|
|
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| Number of Add-on Products (including third party products) |
23 |
46 |
9 |
280 approx |
Platform Support |
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|
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| Windows |
XP/NT 4/98/ME /2000/2003 Server
|
98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP |
2000/XP |
XP/2000/2003 Server |
| Macintosh |
OSX |
OSX |
|
OSX |
| Linux |
32 bit, 64 bit |
32 bit, 64 bit |
|
32 bit, 64 bit |
| Unix |
Sun Solaris, HP-UX, HP
Tru64,
IBM AIX, SGI IRIX
|
Sun Solaris, HP-UX, HP
Tru64,
IBM AIX, SGI IRIX
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|
Sun Solaris; HP HP-UX |
(NAG)