I very much like the idea of a Maxima book. The one online at
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/maximabook/maximabook-19-Sept-2004.pdf
would make an excellent start. A printed O'Reilly version would be
very nice indeed.
-Alasdair
On 12/13/05, Daniel Lakeland wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:10:17PM +0100, Albert Reiner wrote:
> > [Daniel Lakeland , Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:34:47 -0800]:
>
> > I find the following idiom to be easy to use and reliable:
> >
> > (%i1) make_inc(x) := buildq([x], lambda([y], x+y)) $
> >
> > (%i2) f : make_inc(2+3);
> >
> > (%o2) LAMBDA([y], 5 + y)
> > (%i3) f(3);
> >
> > (%o3) 8
>
> Woohoo,
>
> Another fantastic bit of stuff that desperately needs to go into a
> howto book. I think we need to convince OReilly or someone that a
> Maxima book would be worthwhile and that they should fund it.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
> Dan
>
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