[ale] Symbolic Manipulator

Ed Cashin ecashin at noserose.net
Fri Mar 11 09:21:14 EST 2011


On Thursday, March 10, 2011, Vernard Martin <vernard at venger.net> wrote:
> Ed Cashin wrote:
>> Anybody know why GNU R isn't considered to be a part of this
>> group?  Sure, it's statistics-oriented, but it's fine for algebra, scalar,
>> vector, matrix ...
>>
>>
> It doesn't do symbolic work though. You can't tell it to integrate an
> equation and have it give you back the symbolic version of it. It can
> only solve for the answer given a value.

I see, thanks.

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