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To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: Symbolic Calculus on FreeBSD
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Octave does symbolic math just like Matlab. Granted, its not as good as
Mathematica, but Mathematica isn't free.

Declare variables using the syms command (help syms should get you
started).

Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> 
> The octave-port installs very well, but octave does numerical
> calculations. I am interested in symbolic maths.
> 
> Thanx though!
> 
> Uli.
> 
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> 
> > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is any *free* program known to run on FreeBSD that can do symbolic
> > > calculus: solving equations, deviations, integrals, etc. (like Maple, but
> > > no graphic capabilities needed - gnuplot will do for me) ?
> > >
> > > jacal is said to do that, but I have no idea how to get it installed.
> > >
> > > Thanx for your answers.
> >
> > Octave is a Matlab clone that should do what you want. I think SciLab
> > might be a possibility but I haven't looked at it.
> >
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