-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Stevenson wrote: > > I am hoping for open source tools that will do as much as possible > similar to mathematica. YACAS (Yet Another Computational Algebra System) is a free computational algebra tool, the text interface is pretty simple, but I guess people around here will prefer that. Currently it will do arbitary precision arithmetic, fractions, symbolic algebra, calculus, series expansions, propositional logic, partial fractions, and most of the other stuff you need for undergraduate mathematics courses. YACAS is also extensible, it currently links with gnuplot, so sorting a better output for graphs should be pretty straight forward, you can also use the editor of your choice for "stored programs" if you get ambitious. Some distros bundle it with an X based GUI, as a sighted member of the list, I can assure you this GUI adds very little if anything, I think it was provided mainly so as not too frighten off newbie sighted Linux users with a console application. > What are the most speech friendly math statistics packages? No idea, R is the free S, and R has the original author of S working on it. My guess is it is probably better to start with R and make it friendlier if you want real power in your statistics software. Simon, wondering if statistics is ever friendly ;-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/O3ivGFXfHI9FVgYRAhU9AKCTscdJhXI1nfZ7sBidX4tBQdqv+ACg181W iwB5OAxCUhiZTqqqZzHAlYo= =42qe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list