Is it considered lame to use a CAS when helping people in the DE forum?

[clustro]

Hi there,

Many of the problems on this part of the forum simply boil down to "I don't know how to solve the ODE: <some strange ODE here>"

I kind of forgot how to solve many of these problems myself, so I've just been giving people the answer from matlab's dsolve function.

Is this considered rude? I would imagine most people are capable of this, so it might seem cheap.

I realize it doesn't help the person much if its for a class, since they need to show their work, but it at least let's them see the form of the right answer.

Thanks.

 

[HallsofIvy]

The problem with that is, of course, that the "answer" isn't really what is wanted. Most of the time the point is to learn how to solve a specific kind of problem. Just seeing the answer, whether provided by a person or a machine doesn't really help.

 

[Redbelly98]

Also, homework problems really should not be posted in this forum.

 

[matematikawan]

Post whatever problem you have here. I meant maths problem. If people feel like answering your problem then you are lucky. I personally learn quite a lot here from trying to answer other people problem. And further more I want to show off the number of post I have already submitted. This is my post No. 271.


Thanks Redbelly98 for your copy and paste maths symbols blog. Quite useful when we post in a forum without latex facility