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From: ram@netcom.com (Munagala V. S. Ramanath)
Subject: Re: Symbolic Math Package for NetBSD-1.0-i386 or Linux
Message-ID: <ramD34L4v.C2M@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3gcsqa$n9g@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 17:12:31 GMT
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rsutton@trinity.eecs.berkeley.edu (Roy Sutton) writes:
>Are there any PD symbolic math programs which have been ported
>to NetBSD (or other flavors of BSD) or Linux?
Check out the "calc" elisp package by Dave Gillespie that runs
under GNU emacs. It can do simple symbolic calculations like
polynomial arithmetic, solving simultaneous equations etc. but is
not as fancy as Mathematica or Maple. It uses a stack oriented
user-interface and has a wonderfully complete 500+ page manual.
[Note that this is different from the "calc" package by David
Bell which is a C-like language for doing arbitrary precision
arithmetic and runs idependently (it does not do symbolic math).]
Ram