From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Feb 21 14:33:58 2004
Subject: Re: algebraic manipulator in octave
From: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
To: Arnau Mir <arnau dot mir at uib dot es>
CC: help-octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:40:07 +0000

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Arnau Mir wrote:
| Hello.
|
| Can I use octave as algebraic manipulator?
| For example, can I make with octave the following:
|
| a x^2+b x+c=0
|
| and octave responses a solution as a function of a,b c?
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| Arnau.
|

There is some information about the various options for symbolic algebra
with Octave on the wiki: http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CategorySymbolic.

However you may be better off using a symbolic algebra tool directly  if
you only want to perform algebraic manipulations.

Have a look at GiNaC: http://www.ginac.de.

- --
Geraint Bevan
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan

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