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1GettingStarted
PTC®MathCADPrime®3i0(Primeforshort)belongstothegroupofComputer
AlgebraSystems.AccordingtoWikipediadefinition1CASisasoftwareprogram
thatfacilitatessymbolicmathematics.ThecorefunctionalityofaCASismanipulation
ofmathematicalexpressionsinsymbolicform.AccordingtoWikipedia2thesesym-
bolicmanipulationstypicallyinclude:
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simplificationtoasmallerexpressionorsomestandardform,includingau-
tomaticsimplificationwithassumptionsandsimplificationwithconstraints;
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substitutionofsymbolsornumericvaluesforcertainexpressions;
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changeofformofexpressions:expandingproductsandpowers,partialand
fullfactorization,rewritingaspartialfractions,constraintsatisfaction,re-
writingtrigonometricfunctionsasexponentials,transforminglogicexpres-
sions,etc.;
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partialandtotaldifferentiationandsomeindefiniteanddefiniteintegration
(seesymbolicintegration),includingmultidimensionalintegrals;
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symbolicconstrainedandunconstrainedglobaloptimization;
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solutionoflinearandsomenon-linearequationsovervariousdomains;
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solutionofsomedifferentialanddifferenceequations;
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takingsomelimitsandintegraltransforms;
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seriesoperationssuchasexpansion,summationandproducts;
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matrixoperationsincludingproducts,inverses,etc.;
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statisticalcomputation.
1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_algebra_system
2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_algebra_system#Symbolic_manipulations
