![]() ![]() Or even better, it could just change to radians automatically, and alert the reader what happened. How about some usability testing, Microsoft? It doesn't take much to change the warning dialog box to include an option "Would you lilke to change to radians now?". ![]() Then I needed to enter the question again, and finally it gave me the answer: No argument with the requirement to change to radians, but I then needed to go back a few steps, and change the setting to radians, as follows: What I got was the following error message: This is what I asked Mathematics 4.0 to calculate: ![]() Next I tried out numerical integration, this time using the Word Add-In. Believe it or not, that's xraised to the power 3 in the above example. Micrsoft's choice of font in MS Math 4 results in quite unreadable text at times. ![]() You can easily solve equations using Microsoft Math 4.0, as you could earlier in MS MAth 3.0, as the following example shows: By clicking on the Trace forward arrow on the graph in MS Math, you can move along the graph as x takes values from smaller to larger numbers. In the above graph, you can see the "trace" facility in use. MS Math 4's graph of y = arccot(x), showing the Trace facility It won't directly solve your word problems - you still need to use your brains for that! Like all such software, you need to know what you can ask it to do, and how to ask it. Simplify or expand algebraic expressions.Calculate statistical functions, such as mode and variance, on lists of numbers.Plot 3-D graphs in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates.Plot 2-D graphs in Cartesian and polar coordinates.Perform matrix operations, such as inverses, addition, and multiplication.Find derivatives and integrals, limits, and sums and products of series.Compute trigonometric functions, such as sine and cosine.Compute standard mathematical functions, such as roots and logarithms.Microsoft Mathematics can help you with the following tasks: The current version seems to do everything that Microsoft Math 3.0 did before. It's reasonably well integrated, but there are a few usability gripes, as mentioned below. The Add-In is invoked from the ribbon in MS Word. The add-in allows you to easily insert math objects (graphs, equations, etc) into Word or OneNote. The add-in version, which only works with Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft OneNote 2010, and Microsoft Office Word 2007.NET framework, which is also a free download). The standalone version (requires either Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or later and.There are 2 flavors of MS Mathematics 4.0: The new release, Microsoft Mathematics 4.0, comes for free. It was quite good, even though it had some bugs (and it cost just under $20). I reviewed Microsoft Math 3.0 a while back. ![]()
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