[ITP] mathomatic-11.5-1

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

I've updated my not yet approved package of mathomatic to the latest 
upstream version.

http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/mathomatic/
  (also via setup at http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/)

It has the wanted changes from Volker, for which it got a GTG,
and it has 2 votes.

http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/mathomatic.html?&cs=mathomatic:PN:0:0:0:0
finds only a PLD Linux distro, so it needs 3 more votes.

About: Mathomatic is a highly portable,general purpose symbolic math 
program that can solve, simplify, combine, differentiate, integrate, and 
compare algebraic equations. It can do standard, complex number, and 
polynomial arithmetic. It is designed to be as general as possible, with 
few options. It is a console mode application that compiles and installs 
easily.

Changes: This release uses "memmove()" instead of the deprecated 
"bcopy()". There are several improvements to the scripts in the "tests" 
directory. Better modulus simplification and automatic approximations of 
real^complex and complex^complex are new features in this release.

Reini Urban schrieb:
> I would like to contribute and maintain the cygwin-port of the 
> mathomatic package:
>
> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/cygwin/mathomatic/mathomatic-11.3f-1-src.tar.bz2 
>
> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/cygwin/mathomatic/mathomatic-11.3f-1.tar.bz2 
>
> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/cygwin/mathomatic/setup.hint 
>
>
> This is the second attempt. In the first ITP with version 11.3d we only 
> talked about licensing issues, which are now solved, but I got no 
> reviews. Which is a shame, since it is such a simple package. 
> http://www.mathomatic.com
>
> Sample:
> ; iterative root approximation equation:
> x_n = x_o*((((y/(x_o^n))-1)/n)+1)
> simp
> repl x_n x_o with x
> x
>
> This is just the mathomatic console client from the mathomatic package. 
> Not distributed are the samples for prime number generation:
> twin, sumsq, primes and around. If you want these also, get the src 
> packages and compile them by yourself.
>
> maxima (on clisp) is also suitable and maybe better, but harder to install.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/