From: israel@math.ubc.ca (Robert Israel) Subject: Re: Does Mathematica faster thme Maple? Date: 4 Jul 2000 17:00:03 GMT Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,sci.math Summary: [missing] In article <040720001200064347%edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.nospam>, G. A. Edgar wrote: >Maple 6 now has NAG code, so in some respects it should be faster >then Maple V. For linear algebra, yes. The original question was about numerical solution of differential equations, and there is no NAG code for that in Maple 6. However, Edgardo Cheb-Terrab and Alan Wittkopf have written a package they call "DNA" that speeds up numerical solution of ODE's in Maple 6 by a factor of 15 to 30. It is available at http://lie.uwaterloo.ca/ecterrab/software.htm. Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2