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From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Symbolic Math Package for NetBSD-1.0-i386 or Linux
Date: 30 Jan 1995 19:19:08 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <ramD34L4v.C2M@netcom.com>,
Munagala V. S. Ramanath <ram@netcom.com> wrote:
>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

What about Octave?  I believe it is a GNU package (or covered by the
GPL) that does this and much more.  I would doubt you'd have much
trouble compiling it on any BSD system.

Check out any GNU repository
(prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/octave-1.1.tar.gz).

Good luck,

-Clint