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Prime numbers
You might remember that for any integer greater than 1, is a prime number if its factors are 1 and itself. The integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are primes, but 9 is not prime because . The command primep() is useful for testing whether or not an integer is prime:
(%i1) primep(2);
(%o1) [...]
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String Processing with Maxima
The Maxima module stringproc.lisp provides many functions for working with and processing strings. You load the string processing module using the command load(stringproc). A string can be thought of as a sequence of characters delimited by double quotation marks. Something like “abc” is a valid string, but ‘abc’ is not a valid string because the [...]
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Introducing Maxima
Maxima is a computer algebra system. In other words, it is a mathematics software that is capable of symbolic manipulation. It is available for Windows as a command line interface
or as a graphical interface via wxMaxima:
You can also use Maxima under Linux:
For a short introduction to Maxima, see this 10-minute tutorial. The Maxima website contains [...]
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