GAUSS Light 3.5 (fwd)

["Alan G. Isaac" <aisaac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This post will only interest those who teach economics
and want to include a programming component in a course.
I have learned from Aptech that they will supply students
with GAUSS Light 3.5 free of charge!  I have been using
this in grad courses (esp. math econ) and it has been
a geat teaching tool.  Compared with the full version,
there are matrix limitations
(ie.., 10,000 elements and/or 100 X 100
matrix limit, 1 mb global symbol memory,
1 1/2 mb total workspace) and no source level debugger.
This does not matter for most things, but I did have to
change a 3-D graphing assignment due to these limitations.

I have not done a comparison with the free version of
O-Matrix, which is not in such wide use among economists
but also sounds pretty good.

fwiw,
Alan Isaac

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Subject: GAUSS Light 3.5

FTP instructions: GAUSS Light For Students Windows 3.5
                  (with online documentation)

ftp site:           	199.29.185.98

u s e r n a m e:  	winlight

p a s s w o r d:   	winlight

If you are using a browser to ftp to this site you must supply a
username in the ftp command line:

 ftp://winlight:winlight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Once logged on you will be placed in your home directory and will
have access to all file contained in that subdirectory and no others.
Remember to set the transfer protocol to "bin" before downloading
binary files. Use the "get" command to get the files you want off the
ftp site.