>>>>> "Volker" == Volker van Nek <volkervannek at gmail.com> writes:
Volker> 2012/11/27 Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> "Volker" == Volker van Nek <volkervannek at gmail.com> writes:
>>
Volker> The topic of differential equations is only one among a lot of
Volker> interesting mathematical topics. So I would like to answer a little
Volker> bit more in general.
>>
Volker> I work with Maxima because it is powerful and released under the GNU
Volker> GPL. Other software like Matlab or Maple which does not fulfill these
Volker> two conditions is from my point of view completely useless. In the
>>
>> What about Octave, the matlab clone? I'm just curious, since it is
>> clearly GPL. Is it not powerful enough? Or is it because it doesn't
>> do symbolic math?
Volker> I didn't say that Octave is not powerful ! I don't know it very well
Volker> but I can imagine that it fulfills my two conditions. And there is a
As I said, I was just kind of curious since matlab didn't fulfill your
criteria.
Volker> lot of GPL software which is also really worth to look at: Scilab,
Volker> Yacas, Pari/GP, GAP, ..
Indeed. I use Octave when I want to crunch some numbers in a syntax
that is more convenient than Maxima. But otherwise, I use Maxima as a
glorified graphing/symbolic calculator, for the most part. :-)
Ray