Mathematics software for Linux

[beer]

I'm finally starting to break away from the Dark side. I have been playing around with my Mandrake install, on a second computer, for the time being. One thing that I used in Windows a lot for school was Mathematica; my university (U of Texas) doesn't have a site license for Mathematica, so I can't possibly pay $895 for it, as useful as it is for Engineering.

What other Linux software is similar? I love Mathematica becuase, even though it is complex, the power it yields is amazing. Unfortunately I don't think any other math software can be as powerful, but I'm not using it for anything near it's potential so there must be some open source/affordable math software...now just point me in the right direction.

 

[beer]

^

 

[notfred]

Maple 8 is $129 (student edition) and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

 

[GigaCluster]

If you just want to be able to calculate enormous integers (get the full result for 555^555, for example), you can use the freely-included "bc" utility.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
If you just want to be able to calculate enormous integers (get the full result for 555^555, for example), you can use the freely-included "bc" utility.

It's

12094993326847225081940056053482985446683394358600236105947801203408
80911070714528144017562253035626427860754900501916517173145587746603
42700717848429682522765552581436130198319357237125333921308593819014
04070559113703735050995612349070298096142107725348544893666677556516
95979040099083817666186626115254288488165976920389530675442356583766
67439725603825589861444983404610566962318737623143173245659394200355
00218368900783647789498803918472054309241650629036338477006972163471
37340757868170973310070117813144994448750714597164339156480613186740
54521496008610403655938167943677360992094799366711762417257856950987
76051725166541358321063886563033479326209328037121799100365149880312
08520357713224393710910452768921805780267549653707787513213534181014
56938106611556573884091653899712416996572967800095288783554931661491
83364385660879189305487946617020372382134738822212158582140945300314
25930536899271089335193242826632453182329269860927415797258046266673
87591419281789703333124443053011057732754709458231044521444943059780
85090778457561688564903698160583015228923857127203693551616539460716
54161171240212377488694152447946893693439016301382603246672905120204
74132013312741388898231109950566717804979057455326657029848399646287
25027844011118615170836891257200295037320612594770284275619837231433
29629264349021094136040608776723249330407316668380473736546322990491
11178861527475980052902441521403376826557050705794001788414641333034
01353541921199252678194095968035401635311816246193250806023611332307
1549530141055583953857421875

 

[GigaCluster]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
If you just want to be able to calculate enormous integers (get the full result for 555^555, for example), you can use the freely-included "bc" utility.

It's

12094993326847225081940056053482985446683394358600236105947801203408
80911070714528144017562253035626427860754900501916517173145587746603
42700717848429682522765552581436130198319357237125333921308593819014
04070559113703735050995612349070298096142107725348544893666677556516
95979040099083817666186626115254288488165976920389530675442356583766
67439725603825589861444983404610566962318737623143173245659394200355
00218368900783647789498803918472054309241650629036338477006972163471
37340757868170973310070117813144994448750714597164339156480613186740
54521496008610403655938167943677360992094799366711762417257856950987
76051725166541358321063886563033479326209328037121799100365149880312
08520357713224393710910452768921805780267549653707787513213534181014
56938106611556573884091653899712416996572967800095288783554931661491
83364385660879189305487946617020372382134738822212158582140945300314
25930536899271089335193242826632453182329269860927415797258046266673
87591419281789703333124443053011057732754709458231044521444943059780
85090778457561688564903698160583015228923857127203693551616539460716
54161171240212377488694152447946893693439016301382603246672905120204
74132013312741388898231109950566717804979057455326657029848399646287
25027844011118615170836891257200295037320612594770284275619837231433
29629264349021094136040608776723249330407316668380473736546322990491
11178861527475980052902441521403376826557050705794001788414641333034
01353541921199252678194095968035401635311816246193250806023611332307
1549530141055583953857421875

.....Thank you....
Now do 99999999^999999999999999.
(*sits back and watches as Chaotic's processor melts itself.*)

 

[beer]

I need integration, the ability to plot systems. I like how mathematica can integrate functions that can't be expressed except in terms of another function, where my TI89 just gives us and refuses to integrate it. I'll have to try Maple.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: GigaCluster

.....Thank you....
Now do 99999999^999999999999999.
(*sits back and watches as Chaotic's processor melts itself.*)

Actually, I'm doing 999^999999 right now. I'll post it if you want.

7:14 right now... lol

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: GigaCluster


.....Thank you....
Now do 99999999^999999999999999.
(*sits back and watches as Chaotic's processor melts itself.*)

My guess? Close to 10^(10^135)

 

[JetBlack69]

Have you tried searching http://freshmeat.net/? That's a good place to search for free software.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Actually, I'm doing 999^999999 right now. I'll post it if you want.

7:14 right now... lol

Here it is 999^999999 (3,087,786 Bytes)

 

[way]

Maybe GNU Octave can do what you want it to do?
http://www.octave.org/

 

[zzzz]

There is software called scilab which is supposed to be simillar to matlab. May be it will help.