Re: Debian packages similar to mathematica or mathlab ?
On tirsdag 18 januar 2005, 19:40, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> > Any OS alternatives ?
> >
> > For now I only need some basic stuff to quickly check arithmetic
> > and algebraic computations ... very simple stuff like:
> >
> > (17^2-5^3)/(17+3*2^3)*((18^2/9^2+(13-4*3^2:6)^2-2*(8^2-2*3*7)+1))/5
> >
> > TIA
> > Bob
>
> I think octave is a great tool. I have used it for vectorial electric
> calculations. I do not know about symbolic calculus.
Dunno about octave, but I wrote my thesis in astrophysics almost
entirely on R: http://r-project.org/
It is really brilliant, very one-to-one about code and math. Very strong
community of highly qualified programmers. And it is just an
apt-get install r-base
away... :-)
Cheers,
Kjetil
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