MuPAD - About Release 1.2.2

# ... About Release 1.2.2

## Contents

1. Date of distribution
2. New system support
3. New features
4. Testsuites

For further information please refer to the page Demos and Examples.

## Date of distribution

The MuPAD version 1.2.2 is to be released on 24. July 1995. This version is distributed with the new english reference manual, which will also be published by Birkhäuser in autumn of 1995. Furthermore MuPAD for Linux is available on the next S.u.S.E CD (August/September 1995).

## New system support

- HP-workstation: Hewlett Packard (A9000/720, HP-UX A.B8.05 and A9000/735, HP-UX A.09.03)

- We are also working on MuPAD for Windows 3.1 (PC). A first Windows terminal version (alpha-release) may be available august 1995 (only for beta-testers).

## New features

1. series expansions, limit computation,
2. definite and indefinite summation,
3. continued fraction arithmetic, partial fraction decomposition,
4. infinite decimal representation of rational numbers,
5. computing the triangular form of complex expressions,
6. simplification of expressions containing radicals and exponentials,
7. solving diophantine and polynomial equations,
8. collecting coefficients of polynomials,
9. another term ordering of polynomials (DegInvLexOrder),
10. decomposition of polynomials,
11. Bessel functions, primality proving using elliptic curves,
12. finding factors of an integer using Pollard's rho method,
13. TeX-output of expressions,
14. Domain Infinity,
15. standard deviation,
16. variance of a list of values,
17. Stirling numbers,
18. combining terms of the same algebraic structure,
19. enhancement and improvement of the symbolic integration,
20. the Groebner and the linear algebra package,
21. RGB values for color names,
22. polar/spherical/cylindrical coordinate plots,
23. and many many more ...

## Testsuites

- #### The c't testsuite with MuPAD 1.2.2

  In issue 7'95 the computer magazin c't published an article "Das Ende des Bleistifts" in which computer algebra systems are compared. They tested the MS-Windows versions of Derive 3, Macsyma 2, Maple V.3, Mathematica 2.2 and Mathplus. Also AXIOM and MuPAD were mentioned but their test results were not published, because by now both have no MS-Windows user interface.

  Note that MuPAD is the only non-commercial system in this test. An alpha release of MuPAD for Windows exists but is not complete and therefore not available for external users. We hope to publish it in Summer 1996. -- This c't testsuite paper is based on the MuPAD release 1.2.2.

- #### Wester's testsuite for MuPAD 1.2.2

  The "Wester's testsuite" is a set of typical problems which arise frequently when dealing with computer algebra. It can be used to compare computer algebra ystems and their capabilities. Further information - compiled by Michael Wester (wester@math.unm.edu) - can be found on ftp://math.unm.edu/pub/cas/.

  For the current test results of MuPAD, please refer to the Wester's testsuite