Numerica has applications in a variety of areas including kinematics, chemical engineering, finance and electrical engineering to name only a few. Its implementation uses a combination of techniques from numerical analysis, artificial intelligence, and programming languages. It was shown to outperform state of the art tools on many applications, sometimes by many orders of magnitude. It led to the publication of several papers, one book, and it was licensed by Brown for industrial use. It was also a fundamental project which gave us the experience to look for much more ambitious modeling languages.
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