1Maxima is a symbolic computation program.  It is full featured,
2doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational
3functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, graphing, bigfloats.  It has a
4symbolic debugger source level debugger for maxima code.  Maxima is
5based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970's.
6It comes with extensive self tests.
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8Maxima is distributed under the GNU General Public License, with some
9export restrictions from the U.S. Department of Energy. See the file
10COPYING.
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12Installation information is available in the file INSTALL. Summary
13information about this release can be found in the file NEWS. Detailed
14change information is available in the ChangeLog.
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16A simple usage example:
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18(%i1)	pyth:a^2+b^2=c^2;
19(%o1)	b^2+a^2=c^2
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21(%i2)	solve(pyth,a);
22(%o2)	[a=-sqrt(c^2-b^2),a=sqrt(c^2-b^2)]
23
24(%i3)	integrate(x*sin(a*x),x);
25(%o3)	(sin(a*x)-a*x*cos(a*x))/a^2
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27For more information on Maxima, see the Maxima web site,
28<http://maxima.sourceforge.net>.
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