calc: Maxima Language Mode
7.8.6 Maxima Language Mode
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The ‘d X’ (‘calc-maxima-language’) command selects the conventions of
Maxima, another free computer algebra system. The function names in
Maxima are similar, but not always identical, to Calc. For example,
instead of ‘arcsin(x)’, Maxima will use ‘asin(x)’. Complex numbers are
written ‘3 + 4 %i’. The standard special constants are written ‘%pi’,
‘%e’, ‘%i’, ‘%phi’ and ‘%gamma’. In Maxima, ‘inf’ means the same as in
Calc, but ‘infinity’ represents Calc’s ‘uinf’.
Underscores as well as percent signs are allowed in function and
variable names in Maxima mode. The underscore again is equivalent to
the ‘#’ in Normal mode, and the percent sign is equivalent to ‘o'o’.
Maxima uses square brackets for lists and vectors, and matrices are
written as calls to the function ‘matrix’, given the row vectors of the
matrix as arguments. Square brackets are also used as subscripts.
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