ABSTRACT

Desire is not a substitute for full-featured mathematics programs such as Scilab, or for comprehensive statistics packages such as R. But you can quickly do a good deal of scien tic and engineering computation without leaving your simulation desktop. Typed commands like write 1.7* cos(0.33) make Desire a very powerful scientific calculator. Desire’s scripting language can

Compute expressions and functions (Chapter 2, Section 2.1.1)•

Handle les and device input/output (Chapter 5, Sections 5.4.1 • and 5.4.2).