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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
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Subject: Re: Macsyma Sources
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 13:55:52 EDT
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     A competing package is MuMath, from

		Soft Warehouse
		3615 Harding Av
		Honolulu Hawaii 96816

		808-734-5801

This is a symbolic math package written in a quaint but charming dialect
of LISP, for which an interpreter is provided.  There are versions for the
Apple II and IBM PC, and recently a modern version for the PC has been
released.  I've used the older version on some messy vector calculus problems
in my solid modelling work, and found it quite useful in dealing with the
grunt work of algebra and calculus.  The heuristics aren't very powerful,
but the algorithms for the standard solution methods all seem to work.
Microsoft resells this package, when they remember it is in their product 
line, but the developers are in Hawaii and one may as well deal directly
with them.  Sometimes one of the developers answers the phone.

					John Nagle