Ian McDonald wrote:
Folks,
Does anybody have personal experience of open source equivalents?
I see Maxima, Mathomatic and mupad on the web but wondering if anybody has used...
I am looking at packages that do algebraic manipulation, solving and 3D graphing.
On the surface Maxima looks quite good for this.
I've used maxima a little, it did the job I wanted but I haven't used any of the commercial CAS systems since mathcad 6 and and don't know how it compares. There are at least 2 gui's available for it. I found wxMaxima was pretty good for working things out and texmacs has a maxima mode that uses maxima's latex mode to produce presentation output, but it didn't seem so good for working things out (also you need maxima 5.9.2 for this to work and I don't think that's been released yet so you need to build from cvs) my 2c Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz