Richard Fateman wrote:
> Matlab has a few decades of applications that are not (yet) in Euler,
> though
> Euler has a long history too (starting in 1988 on Atari ST!).
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> Euler may be technically superior in some ways; certainly it should have
> benefited from the experience of Matlab. And it certainly does include
> maxima.
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> But it seems to be only partly "integrated". e.g. all commands that begin
> with a ":"
> are shipped to maxima, and the results returned as strings, which can then
> be
> re-parsed and evaluated by Euler.
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> A more integrated approach would, for example, allow the matrix commands to
> work, even if the matrix were not entirely numerical.
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> On the plus side, it appears that Euler may be implemented mostly in Euler.
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> should there perhaps be a Maxima to Euler route, for people who start in
> Maxima?
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> Also it seems that Euler runs on Windows as the main version, and the Linux
> version runs under "wine" but then without maxima.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Barton Willis [mailto:willisb at unk.edu]
>> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 12:23 PM
>> To: fateman at EECS.Berkeley.EDU
>> Cc: 'maxima mailing list'
>> Subject: Re: [Maxima] octave, matlab, maxima
>>
>> I haven't tried it, but the Euler Math Toolbox combines numerical
>> computation
>> with Maxima; see
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>> http://mathsrv.ku-eichstaett.de/MGF/homes/grothmann/euler/index.html
>>
>> Euler's syntax is similar to MatLab.
>>
>> Barton
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What do people think of integrating with scilab instead of octave? It
is developed by INRIA (which also does MPFR) and seems to have an active
European following.
I tried to find if there are projects attempting to integrate MPFR with
scilab, but I did not see anything.
-sen