NAME
JACAL - symbolic mathematics system
SYNOPSIS
jacal [ scheme | scm | gsi | gosh | guile | scheme48 | larceny | scmlit | elk | sisc | kawa | mzscheme ]
DESCRIPTION
JACAL is a symbolic mathematics system for the simplification and manipulation of equations and single and multiple valued algebraic expressions constructed of numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic functions, differential, and holonomic functions. In addition, vectors and matrices of the above objects are included.
OPTIONS
The optional argument to the jacal script is the Scheme implementation to run. Absent the argument, it searches for implementations in the above order.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
-
is the SLIB Scheme library directory.
FILES
- jacal.info
-
Texinfo documentation of jacal.
- demo
-
batch("demo"); to demonstrate commands in jacal
- rw.math
-
batch("rw.math"); to demonstrate tensors in "The Robertson-Walker Cosmology Model".
- test.math
-
batch("test.math"); for regression suite.
AUTHORS
Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu)
Michael Thomas
Jerry D. Hedden
SEE ALSO
The JACAL home-page:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/JACAL.html
- The full documentation for jacal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and jacal programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info jacal
- should give you access to the complete manual.