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Thank you for this useful email
Maxima 5.17 installed flawlessly on my windows pc xp defender.
Thank you all that contribute to this wonderful project.
Happy new year.
Ed
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At 08:12 AM 12/26/2008, Robert Dodier wrote:
>Please distribute this message as you see fit.
>
>Announcing Maxima 5.17
>
>Maxima is a GPL'd branch of Macsyma, the venerable symbolic
>computation system. Maxima 5.17 is a bug fix and feature
>enhancement release. The current version is 5.17.1.
>
>Maxima has functions to work with polynomials, matrices, finite sets,
>integrals, derivatives and differential equations, linear algebra,
>plotting, floating point and arbitrary-precision arithmetic, etc.
>
>Maxima can run on MS Windows and various flavors of Unix,
>including MacOS X.
>There is a precompiled executable installer for Windows,
>source and binary RPM's for Linux, and tar.gz containing
>the source distribution.
>
>Maxima is implemented in Common Lisp; several Lisps can compile
>and run Maxima, including CMUCL, SBCL, Clisp, GCL, and ECL.
>
>The Maxima project welcomes new participants. You can contribute
>in several ways: reporting bugs, fixing bugs, writing new add-on
>packages, revising core functions, user interfaces, documentation, ....
>Why not see what's happening on the mailing list and consider how
>you might contribute to the project.
>
>Thanks to everyone who contributed to the 5.17 release.
>Special thanks to Dieter Kaiser for his extensive, excellent work
>on special functions. Keep up the good work, Dieter!
>
>Regards,
>Robert Dodier
>Maxima developer and 5.17 release manager
>
>Project page:
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima
>
>Documentation:
>http://maxima.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
>
>Bug reports. Please create a Sourceforge login
>before filing a bug report.
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4933&atid=104933
>
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>
>Download page:
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>
>Ports page:
>http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/maxima/index.php?title=Maxima_ports
>
>Project home page:
>http://maxima.sourceforge.net
>
>Change log:
>http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/maxima/maxima/ChangeLog-5.17
>http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/maxima/maxima/ChangeLog-5.17-special-functions
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