Linux Math software (was Simple math considered physics...)

[Coleman Kane]

Michael Costolo wrote:
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> On Nov 22, 2007 7:05 AM, Jim Kuzdrall <gnhlug at intrel.com
> <mailto:gnhlug at intrel.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:27, Brian Chabot wrote:
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>        Has anyone tried Maxima for Linux?  I use its predecessor, Macsyma,
>     on Win98 and absolutely love it.  No, more honestly, I invested enough
>     time working with it to become proficient - and don't want to go
>     through that again.
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>        A link to Maxima is at maxima.sourceforge.net
>     <http://maxima.sourceforge.net>.  It gives some
>     history of the public domain version (now GPL).
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> There is also Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/), which is
> an open source Matlab clone.  It will run most Matlab scripts without
> modification (which can be rather handy).  It uses Gnuplot for
> graphical output.
>
> And my favorite, R (essentially Gnu S), found at
> http://www.r-project.org/.  It is generally considered a statistics
> package, but it is jammed full of usefulness.
>
> -Mike-
>
> -- 
> "America is at that awkward stage.  It's too late to work within the
> system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
> --Claire Wolfe
A not-quite-a-full-CAS, but an efficient and advanced "calculator"
replacement that I really like is called Mathomatic:
http://www.mathomatic.com/math/index.html . It kind of like a bc or dc
that implements a lot of the functionality of some newer TI calculators,
and performs syntax highlighting of equations (especially for
parenthetical matching) to boot. Very handy if you need a solver without
the extra girth that Maxima or Mathematica provide.

--
Coleman Kane