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ERIC Number: EJ828503
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Apr
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1051-1970
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Does Your Graphing Software Real-ly Work?
Marchand, R. J.; McDevitt, T. J.; Bosse, Michael J.; Nandakumar, N. R.
PRIMUS, v17 n2 p195-208 Apr 2007
Many popular mathematical software products including Maple, Mathematica, Derive, Mathcad, Matlab, and some of the TI calculators produce incorrect graphs because they use complex arithmetic instead of "real" arithmetic. This article expounds on this issue, provides possible remedies for instructors to share with their students, and demonstrates that using complex arithmetic has some important advantages. (Contains 4 figures and 2 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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