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Appendix G<br />

Computer Algebra<br />

Mrs. Dunn looked at her son with bewilderment.<br />

“I don’t undertand. How can a computer do your homework?”<br />

“Well, first we feed all the information from our schoolbooks into it,<br />

then we analyze the problems we have for homework, and we program<br />

them, and we let the machine solve them and type them out for us.”<br />

—— “Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine” (1958) [241]<br />

G.1 Introduction<br />

The author, reading such words in 1974, found them tantalisingly exciting,<br />

but somewhat far-fetched. Twenty years later, the author finds himself fetching<br />

himself from afar.<br />

This appendix contains the output listings of various computer algebra<br />

programs, written by the author, that were used to both perform the lengthy<br />

vector-algebraic calculations required for this thesis, and to put these expressions<br />

into a LaT E X-readable format consistent with the macro set used by the<br />

author.<br />

Note that the output from several of the programs essentially serve as<br />

appendices in their own right, and their typographical and linguistic format<br />

are indistinguishable from that generated manually by the author.<br />

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