{"id":1676,"date":"2009-09-02T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2010-04-03T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T07:31:46","slug":"free-mathcad-alternative-smath-studio-updated-to-v0-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Free mathcad alternative, SMath Studio, updated to v0.85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smath Studio is a freeware alternative to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptc.com\/appserver\/mkt\/products\/home.jsp?k=3901\">Mathcad<\/a> developed by Andrey Ivashov for Windows, Linux and Windows Mobile.\u00a0 The latest release, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/default.aspx?g=posts&amp;t=202\">version 0.85<\/a>, was made available yesterday for all platforms and includes a lot of new functionality combined with a set of bug-fixes.\u00a0 A small selection of the improvements is shown below but you should head over to the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/default.aspx?g=posts&amp;t=202\"> SMath forum<\/a> to see the full list of changes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every page now has its own thread for evaluation &#8211; The user can evaluate pages even if evaluation of one of them in progress;<\/li>\n<li>Multi-threading implemented for the Plot Controls;<\/li>\n<li>Added ability to convert English symbols of the Math and Text Controls to Greek characters with a Ctrl+G keystroke;<\/li>\n<li>New functions implemented: eval(..), polyroots(..), reverse(..), sort(..), rsort(..), csort(..), normi(..), norm1(..), norme(..), linterp(..), cinterp(..) and ainterp(..);<\/li>\n<li>Functions for(..) and while(..) condition evaluating improved;<\/li>\n<li>Added support for Infinity into Symbolic Library;<\/li>\n<li>Function if(..) can be used in symbolic calculations now;<\/li>\n<li>Native support of functions added: abs(..), trunc(..), mod(..), round(..) in Symbolic Library;<\/li>\n<li>Composition of Logarithms simplification added into Symbolic Library;<\/li>\n<li>Danish translation added;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/images\/pocket\/smath_linux.png\" alt=\"Smath studio on Linux\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SMath Studio is an extremely promising project that has already caught the interest of many Mathcad users (it even has <strong>basic<\/strong> compatibility with Mathcad&#8217;s file format) and is well worth the download.\u00a0 Let me know if you try it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about free mathematical software from Walking Randomly<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2079\">Maxima Tutorial &#8211; plotting direction fields for 1st order ODEs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1879\">Interactive Fourier Series with SAGE math<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update 3rd April 2010: version 0.85 is now out of date.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/default.aspx?g=topics&amp;f=12\">Click here<\/a> for the latest version of SMath Studio.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smath Studio is a freeware alternative to Mathcad developed by Andrey Ivashov for Windows, Linux and Windows Mobile.\u00a0 The latest release, version 0.85, was made available yesterday for all platforms and includes a lot of new functionality combined with a set of bug-fixes.\u00a0 A small selection of the improvements is shown below but you should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-mathcad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-r2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}