[ale] graphing calculator

Atlanta Geek atlantageek at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 13:55:14 EST 2009


well not exactly a linux/windows application but wolframalphra.com
allows you to enter equations.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:28 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> Gentle folk,
> my brother needs your help.
> He is retired navigator for the USN. Now tutoring kids in math in
> New Bern, NC, and finds the textbooks (middle school/high school)
> the kids are forced to use just about impossible.  From his point of
> view he is amazed they can learn any algebra/geometry/trig at all.
>
> So he is struggling to write his own textbook he can give to the teens he
> is working with.  To that end he needs an app (windoze, cough, cough)
> that will allow him to input an algebraic equation and get out a graph in
> a file format (jpg, etc) that he can then import into the Open Office file
> he is creating.
>
> I will take credit on weaning him away from Office. :)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Sean
>
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