[scilab-Users] SciLab features

[David Comer]

Hi Kong,

At the risk of posting off-topic (we can take this off-line if others feel 
this discussion is not appropriate), you can find information on Maxima at 
maxima.sourceforge.net. In a nutshell I suppose it would be safe to say 
Maxima is to Scilab what  Mathematica is to Matlab (Scilab and Maxima are 
open source, and, as you know, Mathematica and Matlab are not). In fact, 
from the Maxima home page,

 "Maxima is a descendant of Macsyma, the legendary computer algebra system 
developed in the late 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

The grey matter between my ears may have failed me here, however, I 
believe Maxima served as the foundation or inspiration for Mathematic; you 
can read the Maxima home page for exact details.

I find the two packages (Scilab and Maxima) to be of high quality, high 
value, and complementary.


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"Susanto Kong" <kongwoei at gmail.com> 
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Dave,

I am not yet a SciLab user.
What is Maxima package?
I am trying to learn whether SciLab can be used to check the equivalence 
of
two formulas, mostly contains basic arithmetic operations with additional
control condition (if command). 
I knew that mathematica has a light weight theorem prover and can do the 
job. 
I wonder if SciLab also has such functionality. 

Kong Susanto


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