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15 December 2004

Dear Colleagues,

Any assistance with the following would be appreciated:


 (1) I tried to plot something but no plot window appeared:
 
 (20) -> draw(cos(t),t=0..%pi);
    Compiling function %E with type DoubleFloat -> DoubleFloat 
    Graph data being transmitted to the viewport manager...
    AXIOM2D data being transmitted to the viewport manager...
 
                                                  Type:
 TwoDimensionalViewport

It was recommended to run sman but this is not an executable file on my
system. 
There is a file sman.H1, but this seems to be a C header file. Can
something be modified ??



(2)  I tried to write the script testkinemat1.input (pasted below) like a
function
    without input or output variables (see below) but this gave
    errors. Not clear what must be done ??


--testkinemat1.input 

--testkinemat1() ==_ 

Acon := matrix([[1, 0, Lo2*cos(phi)+Lo1*sin(phi), -sin(delta1)*a,0,0,0],_
[0, 1, Lo2*sin(phi)-Lo1*cos(phi), a*cos(delta1), 0, 0, 0],_
[0,1, Lo2*sin(phi)+Lo1*cos(phi), 0, a*cos(delta1), 0, 0],_
[1, 0,-Lo2*cos(phi)+Lo1*sin(phi), 0, 0, -sin(delta2)*a, 0],_
[0, 1,-Lo2*sin(phi)-Lo1*cos(phi), 0, 0, a*cos(delta2), 0],_
[1, 0,-Lo2*cos(phi)-Lo1*sin(phi), 0, 0, 0, -sin(delta2)*a],_
[0, 1, -Lo2*sin(phi)+Lo1*cos(phi), 0, 0, 0, a*cos(delta2)]])

detAcon:=determinant(Acon)

--detAcon:=factor(detAcon)

detAcon:=simplify(detAcon)


 
 Best regards,

C. Frangos.

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Constantine Frangos.
Professor
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Rand Afrikaans University
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