muMATH is a Computer algebra system, which was developed in the late 70s and early eighties by Albert D. Rich and David Stoutemyer of the Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was implemented in the muSIMP programming language which was built on top of a LISP dialect called muLISP. Platforms supported were CP/M and TRS-DOS (since muMATH-79), Apple II (since muMATH-80) and MS-DOS (in muMATH-83, the last version). A computer algebra system (CAS) is a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics. ... Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive fully-parenthesized syntax. ... CP/M is an operating system originally created for Intel 8080/85 and Zilog Z80 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. ... TRS-DOS was the Disk Operating System for the Tandy TRS-80 line of 8-bit Z-80 micro-computers that were sold through Radio Shack through the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ...
The Soft Warehouse later developed Derive, another computer algebra system. The company was purchased by Texas Instruments in 1999. Derive is a Computer algebra system, developed as a successor to MuMATH by the Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii, now owned by Texas Instruments. ...
Literature
David D. Shochat, A Symbolic Mathematics System, Creative Computing, Oct. 1982, p.26
Gregg Williams, The muSIMP/muMATH-79 Symbolic Math system, a Review, BYTE, Nov. 1980, p. 324
Stuart Edwards, A Computer-Algebra-Based Calculating System, BYTE 12/1983, pp- 481-494 (Describes a calculator application of muSIMP / muMATH doing automatic unit conversion.)
The initial letter is capitalized due to technical restrictions.
muMATH is a Computer algebra system, which was developed in the late 70s and early eighties by Albert D. Rich and David Stoutemyer of the Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii.
It was implemented in the muSIMP programming language which was built on top of a LISP dialect called muLISP.
MuMath is reviewed in detail in the October '82 issue of Creative Computing.
Although the muMath program can work with numbers containing over 600 digits, the pair of prime numbers we start with must be small because, as we shall see, the intermediate steps in the algorithm will produce numbers much larger than the primes we start with.
The first four lines show the values muMath has been given for D, E, and N. Lines 7 and 8 show that raising 132 to the 37th power yields a 79-digit number, which is then reduced mod 1073 to the cipher group 169.
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