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Maxima is a free computer algebra system based on a 1982 version of Macsyma. It is written in Common Lisp and released under the GNU General Public License and runs on all POSIX platforms such as Unix, BSD, and Linux as well as under Microsoft Windows. Maxima may refer to: Maxima, a free computer algebra system. ...
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History
Maxima is based on a 1982 version of Macsyma, which was developed at MIT with funding from the United States Department of Energy and other government agencies. A version of Macsyma was maintained by Bill Schelter from 1982 until his death in 2001. In 1998 Schelter obtained permission from the Department of Energy to release his version under the GPL. That version, now called Maxima, is maintained by an independent group of users and developers. Maxima does not include any of the many modifications and enhancements made to the commercial version of Macsyma during 1982 Р1999. Though the core functionality remains similar, code depending on these enhancements may not work on Maxima, and bugs which were fixed in Macsyma may still be present in Maxima, and vice-versa. Map̼a Institute of Technology (MIT, Map̼aTech or simply Map̼a) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ...
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Features Various graphical user interfaces are available for Maxima. wxMaxima is a cross platform GUI based on wxWidgets. The GNU TeXmacs mathematical editor program can be used to provide an interactive GUI for Maxima, as can SAGE. Other options include the imaxima front end as well as an Emacs interaction mode. A graphical user interface (GUI) is a type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer and computer-controlled devices which employ graphical icons, visual indicators or special graphical elements called widgets, along with text labels or text navigation to represent the information and actions available to...
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Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation (SAGE) is a cross-platform computer algebra system written in Python, Pyrex, and C that is released under the GNU GPL. SAGE combines the following mathematics software into one package: GAP, GNU Scientific Library, Matplotlib, Maxima, Mwrank, NetworkX, NTL, Numerical Python, PARI, and Singular. ...
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Maxima includes a complete programming language with ALGOL-like syntax but Lisp-like semantics, so it can readily be used for teaching programming and computer algebra. It has been suggested that ALGOL object code be merged into this article or section. ...
Since Maxima is written in Common Lisp, it is easily accessed programmatically and extended, as the underlying Lisp can be called from Maxima. Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard X3. ...
Numeric calculations Like most computer algebra systems, Maxima specializes in symbolic operations. It also offers special numerical capabilities such as arbitrary-precision arithmetic: integers and rational numbers which can grow to sizes limited only by machine memory, and floating point numbers whose precision can be set arbitrarily large ("bfloats"). On a computer, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, also called bignum arithmetic, is a technique that allows computer programs to perform calculations on integers or rational numbers (including floating-point numbers) with an arbitrary number of digits of precision, typically limited only by the available memory of the host system. ...
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For calculations which use floating point and arrays heavily, Maxima offers the possibility of generating code in other programming languages (notably Fortran) which may execute it more efficiently. Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1]) is a general-purpose[2], procedural,[3] imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. ...
Maxima is a general-purpose system, and special-case calculations such as factorization of large numbers, manipulation of extremely large polynomials, etc. are often better done in specialized systems.
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