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		gaius on March 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doug Lenat – I was positively impressed with Wolfr... MATLAB certainly is the leader in the field, but Mathematica does finite element, control systems, etc. Anyway, the point is, when it comes to being "trusted" there are a lot of software companies and products who Google doesn't really compare to.

Rod on March 11, 2009 [–]

As any other engineer, I have used MATLAB quite a lot. Unfortunately I am not as familiarized with Mathematica. I thought Mathematica was mostly symbolic computation. I didn't know it did numerical computation (such as FEM) as well. Thanks for the info!

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