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Easy-to-use math software promises Mathematica’s speed and accuracy

By Dan Strassberg -- EDN, 7/14/2005

Wolfram Research says that its new Mathematica CalcCenter 3 delivers the speed and accuracy of the company’s flagship Mathematica package in a version that new users can get up and running in as little as 10 minutes (Picture). The target audience for the new package includes users who believe that their computational requirements have outgrown the capabilities of Excel, Mathcad, or Maple. CalcCenter 3 not only brings new speed and accuracy to high-powered math software, says a company spokesperson, but also is fully compatible with Mathematica itself. You can move notebook files back and forth between Mathematica and CalcCenter 3 as often as you wish. The underlying algorithms and technology are identical, and the speed with which CalcCenter 3 obtains results is just as great as is that of its more powerful sibling.

Wolfram also says that by leveraging the development of CalcCenter 3 on the established Mathematica, it reduced development costs and thereby more attractively priced the easy-to-use package than it could have had it built the new package from the ground up. Mathematica CalcCenter 3 carries a list price of $595 in the United States and Canada. The academic list price is $195, and a student version costs $99.95.

Wolfram Research Inc, www.wolfram.com.