Symbolic mathematics system
jacal [ scheme | scm | gsi | mzscheme | guile | scheme48 | larceny | scmlit | elk | sisc | kawa ]
JACAL is a symbolic mathematics system for the simplification and manipulation of equations and single and multiple valued algebraic expressions constructed of numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic functions, differential, and holonomic functions. In addition, vectors and matrices of the above objects are included.
The optional argument to the jacal script is the Scheme implementation to run. Absent the argument, it searches for implementations in the above order.
SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
is the SLIB Scheme library directory.
jacal.info
Texinfo documentation of jacal.
demo
batch("demo"); to demonstrate commands in jacal
rw.math
batch("rw.math"); to demonstrate tensors in "The Robertson-Walker Cosmology Model".
test.math
batch("test.math"); for regression suite.
Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu)
Michael Thomas
Jerry D. Hedden
The JACAL home-page:
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/JACAL.html
The full documentation for jacal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and jacal programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info jacal
should give you access to the complete manual.