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From: boldt@emile.math.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt)
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
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.help
Date: 10 Feb 1995 05:10:56 GMT
Organization: Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, Dept. of Mathematics
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In-reply-to: u01ams@nof.abdn.ac.uk's message of 9 Feb 1995 09:34:36 GMT

u01ams@nof.abdn.ac.uk (Al Slater) said:
Al> Tracy M Nelson (tnelson@fluorite.telesciences.com) wrote:
Tracy> Munagala V. S. Ramanath (ram@netcom.com) wrote:
Munagala> rsutton@trinity.eecs.berkeley.edu (Roy Sutton) writes:

Roy> Are there any PD symbolic math programs which have been ported
Roy> to NetBSD (or other flavors of BSD) or Linux?

Munagala> Check out the "calc" elisp package by Dave Gillespie that runs
Munagala> under GNU emacs. It can do simple symbolic calculations like
Munagala> polynomial arithmetic, solving simultaneous equations etc. but is

Tracy> There is also the jacal package which runs under Aubrey
Tracy> Jaffer's scm Scheme package.  Poke around on
Tracy> altdorf.ai.mit.edu, I think it's there somewhere.

Al> src.doc.ic /gnu/jacal/
Al> swiss-ftp.ai.mit.edu /pub/scm/
Al> you should probably go for scm4e1.tar.gz and
Al> jacal<whatever>.tar.gz If you are feeling enthusiastic, then you
Al> can also find scm4e2 kicking about there; and there is an early
Al> version of Guile lurking on ftp.cygnus.com..

There's also MuPad, kind of a parallelized Maple, but with less
algorithms implemented (all the graphics fun is there, though). It's
free for non-commercial use and runs on Linux (with or without X),
among other things. Some of the documentation is only available in
german. It's on ftp.uni-paderborn.de in /pub/unix/MuPad or /pub/MuPad
I believe.  They make you fill out a license form first.
--
 Axel Boldt * boldt@math.ucsb.edu * http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/