I will look at the code and see if I can make any sense out of it. And
yes, I noticed who the author is - some guy named Wolfram.
Dick
James Amundson wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 14:18, richard noel fell wrote:
> > In the share directory is a package written many years ago, gamalg, to
> > do gamma matrix algebra.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Did this package work at some time? I wrote a gamma algebra package to
> > use with commercial Macsyma for a specific problem. It was naive, but it
> > worked in a very large calculation (Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 18 (1997)). It
> > would be nice if maxima had a working gamma algebra package and it seems
> > reasonable to look at the prior work first as it seems to have many more
> > features ( The source code is in share2. ) I am willing to do this, but
> > before doing so find out if anyone is aware of bugs in this program as
> > it stands now. A search of groups in google produced no information.
>
> I don't know of anyone working on this. As you say, the gamalg package
> is really old. (Did you notice the author? Pretty amusing.) Any
> contribution you have in this area would be a welcome addition to
> maxima.
>
> --Jim
>
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