[clug] F/OSS Alternatives

[Drew Parsons]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 00:33 +1000, Ben Chaplin wrote:
> I would like F/OSS alternatives to the following:
> * Maple (Maths)

maxima (xmaxima) does some symbolic maths, though not as powerful as
Maple or Mathematica.  xmaxima provides a kind of graphical user
interface, and opens with a tutorial page to get you started.  Even does
3D plots which are user-manipulable (via gnuplot).

Drew