{"id":72,"date":"2005-03-21T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=72"},"modified":"2005-03-21T18:17:20","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T18:17:20","slug":"online-mathematics-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Online Mathematics Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer algebra packages have developed dramatically over the years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematica<\/a> probably being the most well-known, though there are plenty of others &#8211; see for example the list at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_algebra_system#List_of_computer_algebra_systems\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those who just need to work out a problem there are also online resources. One well-known one is <a href=\"http:\/\/integrals.wolfram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Integrator<\/a>, which as its name suggests, will give indefinite integrals. It is important though to use the correct syntax required by Mathematica which powers the site, otherwise Integrator tells you <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/b3b04a8f63dfabd5eea89c16ec3352a8.gif' title='\\int \\cos(3x)\\;dx=\\dfrac{3\\cos x^2}{2}' alt='\\int \\cos(3x)\\;dx=\\dfrac{3\\cos x^2}{2}' align=absmiddle> \ud83d\ude15 instead of the correct <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/23284b9cca66f2dcdf5b0916c26aa7b1.gif' title='\\int \\text{Cos}[3x]\\;dx=\\dfrac{1}{3}\\text{Sin}[3x]' alt='\\int \\text{Cos}[3x]\\;dx=\\dfrac{1}{3}\\text{Sin}[3x]' align=absmiddle>.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have just come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickmath.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">QuickMath<\/a> which, although it is also powered by Mathematica, allows a more friendly input using cos(3x) rather than Cos[3x] <\/p>\n<p>The site says it will do <\/p>\n<ul>\n<table width=\"80%\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Algebra<\/b><br \/>\n  -Expand<br \/>\n  -Factor<br \/>\n  -Simplify<br \/>\n  -Cancel<br \/>\n  -Partial Fractions<br \/>\n  -Join Fractions<\/td>\n<td valign =\"top\"><b>Equations<\/b><br \/>\n  -Solve<br \/>\n  -Plot<br \/>\n  -Quadratics<\/p>\n<p><b>Inequalities<\/b><br \/>\n  -Solve<br \/>\n  -Plot<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Calculus<\/b><br \/>\n  -Differentiate<br \/>\n  -Integrate  <\/p>\n<p><b>Matrices<\/b><br \/>\n  -Arithmetic<br \/>\n  -Inverse<br \/>\n  -Determinant<\/td>\n<td valign =\"top\"><b>Numbers<\/b><br \/>\n  -Percentages<br \/>\n  -Scientific notation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickmath.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">QuickMath<\/a> says it has been going in various forms since 1998. How come I haven&#8217;t seen it before? It is certainly worth investigating and it will be interesting to hear how users get on with it. Are there similar sites out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer algebra packages have developed dramatically over the years, Mathematica probably being the most well-known, though there are plenty of others &#8211; see for example the list at Wikipedia. For those who just need to work out a problem there are also online resources. One well-known one is Integrator, which as its name suggests, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}