request help with using octava

[Jelle de Jong]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 07/02/2008, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:
>> The software that is used is called Derive:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derive_computer_algebra_system
>>
>> For a real FLOSS user this is not an option, so I went trying out all
>> the mathematical tools for GNU/Linux. I think octave is the program that
>>    should be able to do all the calculations and visualisations on the
>> functions I use.
> 
> Octave is mostly for numerical analysis, not symbolic manipulations.
> There have been some hacks in the past to get it to interface with
> Maxima, which is a real CAS like Derive, but those attempts never seem
> to get very far.
> 
> If you want a free CAS, try Maxima instead of Octave. It may also be
> worthwhile to look at Sage (http://www.sagemath.org), which can
> interface to both Maxima and Octave, and has a very rich functionality
> of its own too.
> 
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.

Thank you all for you answers I will try maxima and sage right now.

BTW. I noticed my *.odf file with more info on what i wanted to do was 
blocked by the mailing list.

Kind regard,

Jelle