From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 6:53:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.riic.uni-linz.ac.at (mail.riic.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.161.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E434437B42C for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 06:53:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hueber@riic.at) Received: from riic.uni-linz.ac.at (hawkings.riic.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.161.239]) by mail.riic.uni-linz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA28434; Tue, 8 May 2001 08:51:40 +0200 Message-ID: <3AF7977C.30825801@riic.uni-linz.ac.at> Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 08:51:40 +0200 From: Gernot Hueber X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symbolic Calculus on FreeBSD References: <3AF6EF33.CD8D176C@glue.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG matlab, scilab (and octave which I don't know) are numerical tools. Their capabilties of solving equations, integrals are very limited.Nevertheless these tools are perfectly at numerical calculations, working with matrices, etc. Gernot Brandon Fosdick schrieb: > 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Dipl.-Ing. Gernot Hueber Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen Freistädter Strasse 315/2 A-4040 Linz Tel: +43 732 2468-7122, Fax: -7126 E-mail: hueber@riic.at To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message