Derive was a

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, developed as a successor to

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by the Soft Warehouse in

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, now owned by

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. Derive was implemented in , also by Soft Warehouse. The first release was in 1988 for

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. It was discontinued on June 29, 2007 in favor of the

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. The last and final version is Derive 6.1 for

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. Since Derive required comparably little memory, it was suitable for use on older and smaller machines. It was available for the DOS and Windows platforms and was used also in TI pocket calculators.

Books

* * Jerry Glynn, ''Exploring Math from Algebra to Calculus with Derive, A Mathematical Assistant'', Mathware Inc, 1992, * Leon Magiera, ''General Physics Problem Solving With Cas Derive'', Nova Science Pub Inc 2001, * Vladimir Dyakonov. ''Handbook on application system Derive''. Moscow (Russia) 1996, Phismatlit, 320 p, * Vladimir Dyakonov. ''Computers algebra systems Derive''. Moscow (Russia) 2002, SOLON-R, 320 p,

External links

Derive Review at scientific-computing.com

Derive Newsletter
from the International Derive Users Group {{Computer algebra systems 1988 software Computer algebra systems Discontinued software Lisp (programming language) software Science software for Windows

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