Simon, YACAS sounds very interesting. Could you give a URL where it could be downloaded. Another program is Axiom. I'll forward a message on that if there is interest. It contains a URL. John On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Simon Waters wrote: > -----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 > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list