JACAL(1)

NAME
JACAL - symbolic mathematics system

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

DESCRIPTION
JACAL is an interactive symbolic mathematics program. JACAL can manipulate and simplify equations, scalars, vectors, matrices, and tensors of (single and multiple valued) algebraic expressions containing numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic and transcendental functions.

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://people.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.