On 12/6/08, Michael Carey <mpc20 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> read("Enter the radius:");
>
> %^2 * pi;
>
> And want to convert it to use local variables. Is this possible?
> Say it reads the input into a variable and can be used though the rest
> of the program.
my_radius : read ("Enter the radius:");
my_volume : 4/3 * %pi * my_radius^3; /* etc etc */
??
> Also is there a good programming guide for maxima?
Take a look at http://maxima.sourceforge.net/documentation.html,
there is a lot of stuff there.
HTH
Robert Dodier