On Nov 22, 2007 7:05 AM, Jim Kuzdrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:27, Brian Chabot wrote: > > 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. > > A link to Maxima is at maxima.sourceforge.net. It gives some > history of the public domain version (now GPL). > > 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
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