NAME¶

JACAL - symbolic mathematics system

SYNOPSIS¶

jacal [ scheme | scm | gsi | gosh | guile | scheme48 | larceny | scmlit | elk | sisc | kawa | mzscheme ]

DESCRIPTION¶

JACAL is an interactive symbolic mathematics program. JACAL can manipulate and simplify equations, scalars, vectors, matrices, and tensors of (single and multiple valued) algebraic expressions containing numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic and transcendental functions.

OPTIONS¶

The optional argument to the jacal script is the Scheme implementation to run. Absent the argument, it searches for implementations in the above order.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶

SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH

is the SLIB Scheme library directory.

FILES¶

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.

AUTHORS¶

Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu)
Michael Thomas
Jerry D. Hedden

SEE ALSO¶

The JACAL home-page:
http://people.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.