Re: symbolic differentiation

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 15.02.2010, at 18:40, Martin Helm wrote:

> Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 17:21:37 schrieb Jaana Tommiska:
>> Hi,
>> is it possible to do symbolic differentiation using Octave ?
>> Thanks
>> Jaana
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> There is a symbolic package on octave forge (but I never used it), maybe you 
> should better use
> 
> maxima or 
> axiom
> 
> because octave is no computer algebra system but for numeric computations.
> 
> - mh
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Hi Jaana

For symbolic computations I recommend Sage, which is free software. It provides 
a browser-based "notebook" similar to the one from Mathematica and supports the 
Python language for scripting.
You can download it from
http://www.sagemath.org

hth
Lukas