JACAL(1)

📦 version 1c8, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy

💖 JACAL 💖

ok so you found the JACAL(1) page?? periodt. this is from the General Commands Manual bestie, and it's literally the symbolic math bestie you didn't know you needed.

✨ NAME ✨

JACAL — a whole symbolic mathematics system 🧮💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

jacal [ scheme | scm | gsi | gosh | guile | scheme48 | larceny | scmlit
| elk | sisc | kawa | mzscheme ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: JACAL is a symbolic mathematics system — no cap. it's out here doing the simplification and manipulation of equations, plus single and multiple valued algebraic expressions. and what are those expressions built out of?? numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic functions, differential, and holonomic functions. yes ma'am. 🔥

and the way that's not even all of it — it also handles vectors and matrices of all of the above objects. main character energy fr fr. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the optional argument you pass to the jacal script is the Scheme implementation to run. and if you don't give it an argument?? it goes searching for implementations in the above order, like it's swiping through them. 💅

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

  • SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH — this is the SLIB Scheme library directory. she's giving "where's the library" and the answer is here. 📚✨

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • jacal.info — Texinfo documentation of jacal. the lore. 📖
  • demo — batch("demo"); to demonstrate commands in jacal. a little show-and-tell moment 🫶
  • rw.math — batch("rw.math"); to demonstrate tensors in "The Robertson-Walker Cosmology Model". tensors bestie, we love her 🦋
  • test.math — batch("test.math"); for regression suite. the vibe check, essentially ⭐

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu)
  • Michael Thomas
  • Jerry D. Hedden

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the JACAL home-page: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/JACAL.html

the full documentation for jacal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. if the info and jacal programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info jacal

should give you access to the complete manual. iykyk 😌

not me reading all the way to the bottom of the manpage 💀 this came to you from the 4th Berkeley Distribution, dated Feb 1 2008 — iconic behavior, honestly. stay slay, bestie 💖✨🎀🦋🌸
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