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I have recently come across a site with lots of Linux scientific
software.  I am interested in getting a math package that does
matrix manipulation, and general mathematic functions.  Something
on the order of a subset of Mathematica would be great.  Can anyone
recommend any packages that they are using that might fit this
description.  I don't have time to download and try all of them.

Thanks...Win

I haven't tried it, but I hear that SciLab (much like MatLab) is
supposed to be pretty good.

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: > >I have recently come across a site with lots of Linux scientific
: > >software.  I am interested in getting a math package that does
: > >matrix manipulation, and general mathematic functions.  Something
: > >on the order of a subset of Mathematica would be great.  Can anyone
: > >recommend any packages that they are using that might fit this
: > >description.  I don't have time to download and try all of them.
: >
: All of Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab (I think) are available for linux,
: as is Reduce.  These are, of course, commercial.  maxima is `available',
: but it is old, and it is commercial in that you have to send in your
: registration once you download it.

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Quote:>software.  I am interested in getting a math package that does
>matrix manipulation, and general mathematic functions.  Something
>on the order of a subset of Mathematica would be great.  Can anyone

Look for something called Octave.  I heard something about it being
the GNU "Matlab."