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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16311 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1632 comp.os.linux.help:77548 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!olsenc 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 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3gje3c$sb8@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <3gcsqa$n9g@agate.berkeley.edu> <ramD34L4v.C2M@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kodiak.ee.washington.edu 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