Numerical routines in maxima



Greetings!  I've been looking at a number of the numerical routines
listed by the info pages as accessible under maxima, but I can't get
any of them to work.  Like zsolve, for example.  Are these routines
still available?

If not, is there any other convenient way to numerically, rather than
symbolically, process a given stage of a maxima session?  Can one for
example approximate the root of d=%E^d-1.5?

Is there any interest in providing some numerical functions, say from
the gsl library, under maxima?  If so, is there a howto or simple
example? I could probably add what I need.

Take care,

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Camm Maguire			     			camm@enhanced.com
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