fmins; Symbolic functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-May-1997, James Ryan <address@hidden> wrote:

|       Also, is there plans to get symbolic functions into octave.  I
|       tend to use invlaplace(f) (ie. where f = '1/(s+2)') and get a 
|       symbolic answer of e^(-2t).
|       
|       I think matlab uses maple for this kind of stuff.  So I wouldn't
|       be surprised if there is not intention of including this in 
|       octave.

I have no current plans to write an interface to a symbolic
mathematics program myself, but if someone else wants to work on a
project like this, I would encourage them to contact me.

For something like this to be used with Octave, I think we would first
need a freely available system for symbolic math.  I don't know what
(if anything) is available.

jwe