NAME

       JACAL - symbolic mathematics system

SYNOPSIS

       jacal  [  scheme  |  scm | gsi | gosh | guile | scheme48 | larceny | scmlit | elk | sisc |
       kawa | mzscheme ]

DESCRIPTION

       JACAL is a  symbolic  mathematics  system  for  the  simplification  and  manipulation  of
       equations  and  single  and  multiple valued algebraic expressions constructed of numbers,
       variables, radicals, and algebraic functions, differential, and holonomic  functions.   In
       addition, vectors and matrices of the above objects are included.

OPTIONS

       The optional argument to the jacal script is the Scheme implementation to run.  Absent the
       argument, it searches for implementations in the above order.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
              is the SLIB Scheme library directory.

FILES

       jacal.info
              Texinfo documentation of jacal.

       demo
              batch("demo"); to demonstrate commands in jacal

       rw.math
              batch("rw.math"); to demonstrate tensors in "The Robertson-Walker Cosmology Model".

       test.math
              batch("test.math"); for regression suite.

AUTHORS

       Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu)
       Michael Thomas
       Jerry D. Hedden

SEE ALSO

       The JACAL home-page:
       http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/JACAL.html

       The full documentation for jacal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and  jacal
       programs are properly installed at your site, the command
              info jacal

       should give you access to the complete manual.