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Yacas   
Description YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary-precision numerical computations. The system has a library of scripts that implement many of the symbolic algebra operations; new algorithms can be easily added to the library.
Version installed Fedora-17 x86_64: 1.2.2 (installed in June 2008).
Usage At the command prompt, type:
yacas
Upgrade Notes No Changelog seems to be available.
Manuals and
Documentation
See the Yacas website and click on the Manual or on the Tutorial tabs.
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