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15:04:11
yitzi
My undergrad used Maple. We used Maxima in grad sometimes.
15:05:23
aeth
of the three big ones (Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB), I lucked out because I could just use octave. Slower, but the exact same code.
15:05:34
aeth
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
15:05:51
yitzi
That would have been cool. My undergrad had a specific course after the calculus sequence just on how to apply Maple.
15:05:55
aeth
I probably use Octave more than Maxima because it has nice matrix syntax. [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
15:38:03
megamus_prime_
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15:51:14
anticomputer_
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16:19:57
yitzi
zetaE_: There is not. The trig functions use radians only. In fact, the word radian does not even appear in the manual.
18:06:01
loke[m]
Maxima doesn't have an idea of what a number represents, so it can't simply show an angle in degrees.
18:06:41
loke[m]
However, you can use the units functionally to add support for conversion between degrees and radians of you really want to.
18:11:46
loke[m]
s/functionally/feature/
20:42:20
White__Flame
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2:12:24
unixlisp
aeth: I think ((mlist) ((mlist) 1 2 3) ((mlist) 4 5 6) ((mlist) 7 8 9)) is nicer than [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
2:19:23
aeth
unixlisp: looks like ยง2.2.4 of https://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html to me
2:23:21
unixlisp
aeth: here is cas, maxima internally works as this. is it slow?
2:24:47
aeth
I suppose that with macros you can do anything under the hood
2:27:05
unixlisp
not macro. at present, I use maxima like that: (meval* '(($integrate) ((%sin) $x) $x)) => ((mtimes simp) -1 ((%cos simp) $x))
2:27:20
loke[m]
Maxima has its own parser and commandline interface.
2:27:49
loke[m]
Most people do not use its internal representation.
2:28:22
unixlisp
(displa *) => - cos(x)
2:29:48
unixlisp
you can freely transform lisp form and algol form. very lispy.