Maxima is an open source computer algebra system (CAS) with powerful symbolic, numerical, and graphical capabilities. You can perform matrix operation

Getting started with Maxima in Fedora Linux

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Maxima is an open source computer algebra system (CAS) with powerful symbolic, numerical, and graphical capabilities. You can perform matrix operations, differentiation, integration, solve ordinary differential equations as well as plot functions and data in two and three dimensions. As such, it is helpful for anyone interested in science and math. This article goes through installing and using Maxima in Fedora Linux.

You can launch wxMaxima either by invoking the command wxmaxima in the terminal or clicking its application icon from the app grid or menu.

The (%i1) is the input label where you enter the commands. Command in Maxima is an expression that can span over many lines and is closed with a semicolon (;). The o labels denote the outputs. Comments are enclosed between /* and */. You can use the special symbol percent (%) to refer to the immediately preceding result computed by Maxima. If you don’t want to print a result, you can finish your command with $ instead of ;. Here are basic arithmetic commands in Maxima:

In the output label (%o5) the first array gives the eigenvalues, the second array gives the multiplicity of the respective eigenvalues, and the next two arrays give the corresponding eigenvectors of the matrix A.

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