Mathomatic on a terminal emulator
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Developer(s) | George Gesslein II |
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Initial release | 1987, 29–30 years ago |
Stable release |
16.0.5 / 21 October 2012
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Development status | Discontinued |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Cross-platform, Unix-like |
Platform | Any computer architecture |
Available in | English |
Type | Computer algebra system |
License | GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 |
Website | www |
Mathomatic is a free, portable, general-purpose computer algebra system (CAS) that can symbolically solve, simplify, combine, and compare algebraic equations, and can perform complex number, modular, and polynomial arithmetic, along with standard arithmetic. It does some symbolic calculus (derivative, extrema, Taylor series, and polynomial integration and Laplace transforms), numerical integration, and handles all elementary algebra except logarithms. Trigonometric functions can be entered and manipulated using complex exponentials, with the GNU m4 preprocessor. Not currently implemented are general functions like f(x), arbitrary-precision and interval arithmetic, and matrices.
Mathomatic excels at solving, differentiating, simplifying, calculating, and visualizing elementary algebra. It also does summations, products, and automated display of calculations of any length by plugging sequential or test values into any formula, then approximating and simplifying before display.