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The SCRATCHPAD system

Published: 01 January 1975 Publication History

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SCRATCHPAD is an experimental interactive for symbolic computation in use at the IBM Thomas son Research Center. SCRATCHPAD has facilities manipulation of multi-indexed variables and functions, and infinite sums, products, and sequences, and polynomials of arrays. Among the specific capabilities offered system are the following:
Multiple-precision integer arithmetic
Rational number arithmetic
Polynomial and rational function manipulation
Differentiation
Symbolic integration
Manipulation of formal power series
Symbolic solution of systems of polynomial equations
Two-dimensional output of mathematical expressions

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Griesmer, J. H., and Jenks, R, D., "Experience with an On-line Symbolic Mathematics System", Proceedings of the ONLINE72 Conference, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, September 4-7, 1972, Vol. 1, pp. 457-476. (Also available as IBM Research Report RC 3925, entitled "The SCRATCHPAD System".)
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Griesmer, J. H., and Jenks, R. D., "SCRATCHPAD: A Capsule View", Proceedings of a Symposium on Two-Dimensional Man-Machine Communication, SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1972, pp. 93-102. (Also available as IBM Research Report RC 3972.)
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ACM '75: Proceedings of the 1975 annual conference
January 1975
371 pages
ISBN:9781450374811
DOI:10.1145/800181
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