I am using Octave (3.6) on Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS. I want to do some research involving symbolic math. I was thinking of downloading sage (I just found about it today) - but thought I'd better ask in here - at least, I'm already familiar with Octave.
Is there a symbolic math package for octave?
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2I did but OP should wait for more definitive answer from someone who has a first hand experience with `octave-symbolic` or Sage's `octave.eval`. – 2012-04-06
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Sage uses many symbolic computation packages: Maxima, Singular, etc. For each functionality, it picks the most suitable algorithm from all the packages. It also allows direct interface to all packages.
FWIW, Sage also connects to Octave. Consult: reference/sage/interfaces/octave.
MATLAB has a symbolic toolbox where it allows defining symbolic variables via syms
and manipulate them etc. It seems that Octave-symbolic
is a package that allows Octave to do symbolic computations similar to MATLAB's. Link: http://octave.sourceforge.net/symbolic/
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0@seyed Or within octave: `pkg install -forge symbolic` – 2018-04-18