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- Maxima is a full symbolic computation program. It is full featured
- doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational
- functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, graphing, bigfloats. It has a
- symbolic debugger source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is
- based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970's. It is
- quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks.
- It comes with hundreds of self tests.
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- Maxima is distributed under the GNU General Public License, with some
- export restrictions from the U.S. Department of Energy. See the files
- COPYING and COPYING1.
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- Installation information is available in the file INSTALL. Summary
- information about this release can be found in the file NEWS. Detailed
- change information is available in the ChangeLog.
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- For more information on Maxima, see the Maxima web site,
- <http://maxima.sourceforge.net>.
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