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Maxima

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Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors.

Xmaxima interface running Maxima 5.28

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    Open Source and Free product.
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    • English

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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Maxima, and it has gotten 74 likes

Maxima was added to AlternativeTo by kn on Apr 17, 2009 and this page was last updated Mar 29, 2022.

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axcqhsbsadoukciozt
Sep 21, 2020
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If you combine it with Cantor (a KDE user interface), which can use Maxima as a backend you have a very good substitute for Maple and other similar non-free software.

Guest
Dec 14, 2021
0

This is the open source program the most similar to Derive, especially older Derive versions. However, there is an important difference when it comes to numbers: Derive tries to show everything as fractions. Maxima goes into decimals as early as possible.

axcqhsbsadoukciozt
Apr 30, 2022

Depends on how you use it, if you write 1.0 instead of 1, one is a float and the other one an “algebraic” one. There are many options to control how the simplifications are performed.

alewnano
Sep 20, 2020
0

Excellent program for symbolic math. Helped me a lot dealing with linear ODE. Few tutorials around the web got me going.

What is Maxima?

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.

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