Re: Debian packages similar to mathematica or mathlab ?

[Jack Nguy <Jack@JackNguy.com>]

I am also looking for a mathematica/mathlab substitute for linux. I did 
however find kseg, which is a nice geometer's sketchpad substitute, not 
as good, but almost.
Jack

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2005-01-18 13:13:24 +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > try bc
>
>
> Do you mean that bc can work on rational numbers?