Mathcad for Linux

loninappleton · 02-06-2006, 01:59 PM

There is a program called Mathcad widely used in university environments for the engineering industry.

http://www.academicsuperstore.com/it...ocode=0D3P04XX

What sort of scientific calc program would be available in the open source world for this?

Mathcad does offer a 'sample' version but you can't save things in it.

If a spreadsheet/design were built for mathcad, could it port to Linux?

ssfrstlstnm · 02-06-2006, 02:23 PM

There is octave which is a matlab clone. It does essentially the same thing, but you have to a sort of programming language so it is not as easy as mathcad.

loninappleton · 02-06-2006, 03:18 PM

Now we have to find some audio speaker builders who know mathcad and octave. :-)

The application is from the hobbyist speakerbuilding world. The complex application calculations
need to be ported to a calculator that doesn't
have all the restrictions of Mathcad.

I often wondered why there was no version of
Mathcad where just the single prog could be sold
as a package.

Since that is not the case I'm still whistling in the dark.