24 Apr
2003
24 Apr
'03
6:39 a.m.
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:09:29 -0400
Ross Vandegrift <ross(a)willow.seitz.com> wrote:
Definately Maxima is the only way to go. It's the
LISP engine that
Maple and Mathematica are based on from MIT back in the day. It was
semi-recently freed and it's really sweet. It'll take some work (you
have to use clisp - the other LISPs are broken, and the GUI is a bit
clunkier than most), but it's quite nice.
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
If you're lucky enough to be running Debian Testing or Unstable (not
sure about stable):
apt-get install maxima xmaxima
Unfortunately its broken on PowerPC but works a treat on x86.
Erik
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