Re: Solver?

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: Solver?
From: "Williams, Matt" <Williams.Matt@CON-WAY.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 12:25:17 -0800
Reply-To: "Williams, Matt" <Williams.Matt@CON-WAY.COM>

inobvious is not in websters dictionary.  However, unobvious is listed
as an antonym to obvious.

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>From:  Rene Kragh Pedersen[SMTP:u971168@DAIMI.AAU.DK]
>Reply To:      u971168@DAIMI.AAU.DK
>Sent:  Sunday, March 15, 1998 1:26 PM
>To:    CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
>Subject:       Re: Solver?
>
>Mark Calvert wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of a better solver program for the TI-86?  Overall, I
>> am very pleased with the one built in, but occasionally I will enter a
>> problem that will take a long time to solve on the solver that is
>> relatively easy.
>
>I can't help you there.
>That aside, I just wanted to offer my comment on what you say. I assume
>that when you say "relatively easy", it's because it didn't take you
>long to solve the problem yourself?
>What I'm getting at is that although the calculator is often much better
>and faster than us at solving most problems, it still lacks the ability
>to take a backwards step and see the greater perspective of a problem,
>i.e. "if you re-write this into something that initially is a bit more
>complex, or if you start out by squaring this function, it will pay off
>in the end, no matter how inobvious[1] it seems."
>In other words: the calc gets the job done, but not necessarily in the
>most intuitively easy and/or fast way, simply because it isn't that easy
>to program mathematical intuition, as opposed to rough method.
>
>[1] Is this a word? :-)
>
>Regards,
>
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>          Rene Kragh Pedersen
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