Thread: Matlab vs. R

Originally Posted by Perspective

Matlab if you want floating point approximations. Maple if you want actual answers to your problems.

Maple is a subset of Matlab. The symbolic toolbox in Matlab is basically Maple without the gui. In Matlab:

Code:

>> syms a b c
>> A = [a+b c; 1+a b]
 
A =
 
[ a+b,   c]
[ 1+a,   b]
 
 
>> inv(A)
 
ans =
 
[      b/(b*a+b^2-c-c*a),     -c/(b*a+b^2-c-c*a)]
[ -(1+a)/(b*a+b^2-c-c*a),  (a+b)/(b*a+b^2-c-c*a)]
 
 
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