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Waldek Hebisch
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 Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: Announce: FriCAS-1.0.4 released |
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FriCAS 1.0.4 has been released
FriCAS is an advanced computer algebra system. Its capabilities range from
calculus (integration and differentiation) to abstract algebra. It can
plot functions and has integrated help system.
FriCAS 1.0.4 should build on Linux, many Unix like systems (for
example Mac OSX and Solaris 10) and Windows.
FriCAS is build on top of Common Lisp; several Lisps can compile
and run FriCAS -- currently supported are GCL, SBCL, Clisp, ECL
and Closure CL (former OpenMCL).
Project page:
http://fricas.sf.net
Download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=200168
Mailing list. Please sign up before posting a message.
http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en
Notable changes (compared to 1.0.3 version) include:
- significant speedups for some operations (for example
definite integration)
- support for building algebra using user-defined optimization
settings
- support for mouse wheel in HyperDoc browser
- included support for interfacing with Aldor
- new optional Emacs mode and efricas script to run FriCAS
inside emacs
- better unparse
- removed support for attributes (replaced by empty categories) and
use of colon for type conversions in Spad code
- a few bug fixes
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Waldek Hebisch
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amzoti
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject: Re: Announce: FriCAS-1.0.4 released |
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On Nov 6, 3:25 pm, Waldek Hebisch <hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl> wrote:
[quote]FriCAS 1.0.4 has been released
FriCAS is an advanced computer algebra system. Its capabilities range from
calculus (integration and differentiation) to abstract algebra. It can
plot functions and has integrated help system.
FriCAS 1.0.4 should build on Linux, many Unix like systems (for
example Mac OSX and Solaris 10) and Windows.
FriCAS is build on top of Common Lisp; several Lisps can compile
and run FriCAS -- currently supported are GCL, SBCL, Clisp, ECL
and Closure CL (former OpenMCL).
Project page:http://fricas.sf.net
Download page:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=200168
Mailing list. Please sign up before posting a message.http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en
Notable changes (compared to 1.0.3 version) include:
- significant speedups for some operations (for example
definite integration)
- support for building algebra using user-defined optimization
settings
- support for mouse wheel in HyperDoc browser
- included support for interfacing with Aldor
- new optional Emacs mode and efricas script to run FriCAS
inside emacs
- better unparse
- removed support for attributes (replaced by empty categories) and
use of colon for type conversions in Spad code
- a few bug fixes
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Waldek Hebisch
hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl
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Does it have to be run under a flavor of unix/linux?
Can it run under cygwin?
Can it be installed and run under Windows?
Why is it better than Axiom or Maxima?
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Waldek Hebisch
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: Re: Announce: FriCAS-1.0.4 released |
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In sci.math.symbolic amzoti <amzoti@gmail.com> wrote:
[quote]On Nov 6, 3:25 pm, Waldek Hebisch <hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl> wrote:
FriCAS 1.0.4 has been released
FriCAS 1.0.4 should build on Linux, many Unix like systems (for
example Mac OSX and Solaris 10) and Windows.
Does it have to be run under a flavor of unix/linux?
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Binaries are provided only for Linux. On other systems you need to
build from sources.
[quote]Can it run under cygwin?
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Yes. See INSTALL.CYGWIN in the source distribution for details.
[quote]Can it be installed and run under Windows?
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Yes. If you do not want Cygwin, you can use gcl+Mingw to build
FriCAS. Currently no-Cygwin version lacks online help and
graphics (computational parts are fully functional). Some
folks preferred to run Linux binares using emulation environment
like andLinux.
[quote]Why is it better than Axiom or Maxima?
[/quote]
FriCAS is fork of Axiom so there is still quite a lot of similarities.
However, FriCAS is better because of added functionality (notably
guessing package by Martin Rubey), bug fixes, improved speed (FriCAS
runs trough its test suite 3-4 times faster than Axiom before fork),
improved portability (like Cygwin port few months ago).
Compared to Maxima:
- better algoritms for indefinite elementary integration, limits and
differential equations
- framework for algebraic computations: finite fields, algebraic
extensions (one can do similar things in Maxima only in ad hoc
way and one can too easily hit problems)
- Groebner baseses and triangular systems in core (important for
solving polynomial equations)
- series that works as streams, that is compute additional terms
when needed
Also, FriCAS has better structured and more readable code, which
means that improving FriCAS is much easier than improving Maxima.
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Waldek Hebisch
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