Math::Symbolic version 0.06
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Math::Symbolic is intended to offer symbolic calculation capabilities
to the Perl programmer without using external (and commercial) libraries
and/or applications.

Unless, however, some interested and knowledgable developers turn up to
participate in the development, the library will be severely limited by
my experience in the area. Symbolic calculations are an active field of
research in CS.

Some information on the state of things:
Currently, the interface is weak and only a rudimentary parser
for algebraic expressions exists and is shipped with the module. The parser
does not output Math::Symbolic trees but rather simple nested
array- and hash refs.
The interface is badly documented. Please refer to the tests and example
programs.
Partial derivatives of logarithms, exponentiations, and arithmetic terms
(*,/,+,- and unary minus as well as variables and constants) work rather
well albeit slowly. Simplification of algebraic terms is severely limited
at this time.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Test::More
  Exporter

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2003 Steffen Mueller
Author can be reached at symbolic-module at steffen-mueller dot net

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself. 

