Hi,
I think that this is an excellent idea! Also, it is interesting to look
through the Maxima share directories to see what applications have been
written in the past (although I am not sure of the status of some of these,
i.e., do they indeed work with the current version of Maxima?). These files
might provide a starting point for such a collection.
Dave Holmgren
Dr. David E. Holmgren,
Imaging Scientist,
SMART Technologies, Inc.
Calgary, AB, Canada
http://www.smarttech.com
[403]-235-1452, ext. 251
DavidHolmgren@smarttech.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valerij Pipin [SMTP:pip at iszf]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:56 AM
> To: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
> Subject: [Maxima] itensor.lisp in maxima-5.6
>
> Dear Maxima's Users,
>
> Sometimes ago I revealed it but did not ask. Why the itensor package
> disappear from maxima-5.6, though one was existed in maxima-5.4.
> Some changes in another package ctensr was made. Perhaps this results to
> the
> following:
> (C1) load(ctensr);
> (D1) ./ctensr.mac
> (C2) load("ctenso.dm1");
> Could not find `max$disk:[tensor]CTENSR.mc' using paths in
>
> FILE_SEARCH_MAXIMA,FILE_SEARCH_LISP (combined values:
>
> [./###.{mc,mac}, /usr/lib/maxima-5.6/{mac,sym}/###.mac,
>
> /usr/lib/maxima-5.6/{share,share1,share2,tensor}/###.mc,
> ./###.{o,lsp,lisp},
>
> /usr/lib/maxima-5.6/{src,share1,sym}/###.o,
>
> /usr/lib/maxima-5.6/{src,share1,sym}/###.o,
>
> /usr/lib/maxima-5.6/{src,share}/###.lisp,
> /usr/lib/maxima-5.6/{sym}/###.lsp] )
> -- an error. Quitting. To debug this try DEBUGMODE(TRUE);)
> (Well, I tried to correct "ctenso.dm1" by commenting the string where the
> CTENSR.mc is called and this gives:
> (C3) load("ctenso.dm1");
> Evaluation took 00.10 seconds (00.40 elapsed)
> (D3) ctenso.dm1
> (C4)
> without any information about what was it done. The same result is with
> others ctensr.dm#
> What is going wrong?
>
> One idea about the future of maxima. It would be extremely usefull to make
> an
> electronic archive about applications of maxima in science. As for me, I'm
>
> working in turbulence astrophysics and having expirience in calculations
> typical for turbulence physics (it concerns moslty with averaging
> operations
> of tensors) I'm going to adopt my codes from mathematica to maxima in near
>
> future.
>
> best regards, Valerij
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