Package maxima-5.20.1-4

Maxima is a symbolic computation program. It is full featured, including symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, 2D and 3D plotting, an ODE solver, and bigfloats. It contains a symbolic source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original MACsyma developed at MIT in the 1970's. This package contains the command-line executables, demos, sources, etc. Since this package carries a strict versioned dependency on SBCL, automatic updating from fink is tricky. Using fink build sbcl ; fink remove --recursive maxima ; fink install maxima will allow it to update.

Enter "rmaxima" for a command line interface with line editing. The "maxima" executable doesn't have this capability now. "xmaxima" has moved to its own packages. X11 plotting in gnuplot can be turned on via flags sent to the plot commands.