Using maxima for high school mathematics




On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Daniel Dalton wrote:

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< Thanks very much, when I get home I'll play with this...:)
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< I suppose your defining the function here? Is there any way to put this
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< Anyway, I'll have a go at it when I get home this afternoon.
 
 Yes, just copy the input lines without the input labels into a
 file (it is usual to end the file name with a .mac ending).
 In Maxima:

 batch("file.mac");
 load("file.mac");

will execute the code in the file.

Ted Woollett's Maxima by Example is a good introduction.
http://www.csulb.edu/~woollett/

Leo

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