Up: Helpful Hints to MAXIMA Programmers

(draft adopted from earlier version for Vaxima)

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Kent State University

Kent, Ohio 44242

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• Introductory Information Available
• Filenames in MAXIMA
• Hardcopy
• Saving Computational Results for a Later Session
• Using MAXIMA for Typesetting
• Finding Functions or Macros Defined in MAXIMA
• MAXIMA init Files
• Loading CL Code into MAXIMA
• Writing Programs in CL for Maxima
  • Overview
  • Interfacing to MAXIMA
• Expressions and Operations in CL under MAXIMA
• A Complete Example
• Testing and Debugging
• Compiling CL Programs for MAXIMA
• Error Handling
• Polynomial and rational function manipulation
  • Conversion between General Representation and CRE
  • Builtin operations for CRE
  • Builtin Operations for Polynomials
  • Working with Polynomials with the modulus Set
• Installing a New Module for MAXIMA
• Performing Calculations in the Background
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