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15-Moonstone
October 29, 2023
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Symbolically recalculate the theorem about area ratio

  • October 29, 2023
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Again I need help dealing with symbolic arithmetic in MC14. In the German mathematical school magazine "Alpha", issue 2/1993, I found reference to a strange sentence. In the limit towards 0 it concerns the ratio of the area of a curve segment to the area of a connected tangent triangle. Proving this theorem for special curves whose functional equation is known is not difficult. But the theorem applies to arbitrary, often continuously differentiable, curves. The associated proof in the original work involves a lot of writing work. I would like to understand this using the symbolic calculation in MC14. I have attached a “test file” for this purpose. Unfortunately my calculation fails because of the MC message that terms are becoming too large. Maybe I made mistakes too. But the calculation method is easy to describe. I ask you to check whether MC14 can do the calculations symbolically.

Kind regards, Alfred Flaßhaar

Best answer by AlfredFlaßhaar

I have got it. Yellow was wrong. That´s all. 🙂

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18-Opal
October 29, 2023

MC 15 - Dont have 14

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21-Topaz II
October 29, 2023

Hi ppal,

MC15 and MC15 share the same file format.  MC15 can save backwards to MC13 format.

Please upload your mathcad file it will be easier for the poster

Cheers

Terry

 

18-Opal
October 29, 2023

File Mathcad 15 attached 

15-Moonstone
October 31, 2023

My question is now reduced to the problem highlighted in yellow in the file:
Can MC14 calculate the 4th derivative symbolically and then calculate the limit s--->0?

AlfredFlaßhaar15-MoonstoneAuthorAnswer
15-Moonstone
October 31, 2023

I have got it. Yellow was wrong. That´s all. 🙂