NAME

       JACAL - symbolic mathematics system

SYNOPSIS

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

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://swiss.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.

4th Berkeley Distribution                          Dec 20 2007                                          JACAL(1)