yacas(1)

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version 1.9.1 · 3 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

yacas — Yet Another Computer Algebra System 🧮✨ (yes bestie, that's the actual name, and honestly? iconic)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

yacas [OPTION] [FILE]
yacas -i COMMAND

okay so like, short and sweet, she takes options, she takes a file, and if you're feeling spicy you can just throw a command at her with -i and dip 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay bestie, sit down, because yacas is a whole moment. It's a general purpose Computer Algebra System — aka a program that does symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. like, actual algebra, not just numbers. she's fluent in her own programming language, and that language is built for symbolic computations and arbitrary-precision numerical computations, which is giving "she can count past your fave's floating point precision" 😌

and it gets better: the system ships with a library of scripts that implement so many of the symbolic algebra operations you'd ever want, and — bestie, are you ready — new algorithms can be easily added to the library. extendable queen 🎀

and because she's not a gatekeeper, yacas comes with extensive documentation covering:

  • the scripting language 📜
  • the functionality that's already implemented in the system 🛠️
  • the algorithms we used 🧠

fr fr, she wants you to understand her.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -d — print the default scripts path and exit 🗂️ (she shows you where her scripts live, then leaves, no small talk)
  • -v — print yacas version and exit 🏷️
  • -p — plain (dumb-terminal) mode 🖥️ (for when your terminal is not giving main character energy)
  • -c — do not print prompt 🙈
  • -b — do not print banner 🚫 (no intro, straight to business)
  • -i COMMAND — execute COMMAND and exit ⚡ (run it, slay, leave)

🌸 OTHER DOCUMENTATION 🌸

Full documentation at: https://yacas.readthedocs.io/ 📖✨

lowkey reminder bestie: that's every option, every path, every command, all of it. don't come for me if you skipped -p and your dumb terminal started acting up 💀

and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this was the yacas(1) manual page from the General Commands Manual — section 1 energy, go read the docs, ily, bye 🫶

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