Depending on how much polynomial manipulation you
need, you may find other simpler things to do, perhaps
taking a few pages of lisp. For example, you probably
don't need to worry about GCD computations, or polynomials
of high degree. Representing polynomials in n variables
as n-dimensional arrays may be entirely adequate, especially
since the polynomial stuff would be done (I imagine) only
in setting up the problem, not in the iterations.
RJF
Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
>James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
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>>On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 04:02, Nicolas Neuss wrote:
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>>>In fact, I'm thinking about using Maxima's polynomial manipulation for
>>>computing finite element shape functions and quadrature rules in my toolbox
>>>"Femlisp" [1]. I would like this to be an optional choice
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>>I hope you will not encounter any special difficulties loading Maxima as
>>an additional module. If you do, please speak up so that we can try to
>>smooth the rough edges.
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>? src/maxima.asd
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>This is from a patch Christophe Rhodes submitted some time ago. So it
>seems that loading Maxima as an ASDF system would also be an option.
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>Wolfgang
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