hi judah
you must rewrite at /usr/local/lib/maxima5.6/
share/vect.dem Line 5,LOAD("VECT.mc") to
LOAD("vect.mc").
Then run maxima.
(C1)load(vect);
(C2)express1([a,b,c]~[d,e,f]);
(D2) [bf-ce,cd-af,ae-bd]
more please read share/vect.mc especially
function express1.
gosei furuya (go_furuya@infoseek.jp)
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> Hi,
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> New to Maxima here. Running 5.6 with GCL 2.4.0
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> Can anyone recommend good intro level material and/or examples of
> using Maxima to do some relatively simple vector operations? If I can
> only figure out how to do thing like start with symbolic expressions:
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> v1 = [a, b, c];
> v2 = [e, f, g];
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> and get to the cross product, expanded out:
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> [ b g - f c ]
> [ -a g + e c ]
> [ a f - e b ]
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> I really have been trying to follow the docs but I could really
> benefit from seeing a simple example.
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> thanks!
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> Judah
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