Since Mathematica is not even close to the fastest
Grobner basis computation , you have got to wonder
what this guy is thinking. Ditto for
non-linear optimization.
Raymond Toy wrote:
>>>>>>"Martin" == Martin RUBEY <rubey@labri.fr> writes:
>>>>>
>
> Martin> On comp.lang.lisp somebody wanted to write a lisp interface for
> Martin> mathematica. I told him that maxima might be a better choice. He replied:
>
> Martin> Yes, I know of Maxima and it is an interesting option. However,
> Martin> I need
> Martin> - fast Groebner basis computations
> Martin> - fast numerical non-linear-many-variable optimization
>
> As one of the tests in f2cl, there is a copy of minpack, a numerical
> optimization pacakge for non-linear and/or least-squares problems.
> This could be added, I suppose.
>
> Ray
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