Learn How to Use Mathmatica - Unsurpassed Symbolic Toolbox

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I have just taught myself how to use Mathmatica.

The symbolic toolbox is outstanding!

I have it running mass optimizations for modular rocket stages... something Matlab is (to my knowledge) unable to do symbolically , and crunching the numbers by hand takes at least 5 minutes per stage.

Now I just need to figure out how to run for and do...while loops as well as filling results into a table and I'll be living large.

This software ROCKS!
 
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Mathematica is my favorite CA package as well. The help files are generally good -- look at them for learning how to do loops and list manipulation and so on. Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions.

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