Re: Symbolic Calculator for Mobile Devices


"Alasdair McAndrew" <amca01@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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Currently I have a deskop computer, a laptop (which I use as my home
desktop), a mobile phone and a PDA (Palm Tungsten T3). For my
money, a CAS running on the Palm TT3 would be heaven. However,
there isn't one as yet.

There is a java virtual machine for the Palm TT3, and so it should run
Jasymca. You can save and read in function definitions and variables
in Jasymca.

A cut-down maxima for the Palm platform would be perfect for me.
There is a lisp (scheme) for PalmOS: LispMe, at
http://www.lispme.de/ but I imagine it would be a non-trivial task
porting maxima to it.

It would be an interesting project, but I can't imagine that porting as
complex a program as Maxima from common lisp to scheme would be much
easier than rewriting it from scratch. (Although Robert Dodier said
that he'd like to see it done, and he would know much better than I.)
There is Jacal, which runs on scheme, but that always struck me as a
different sort of beast.

Jay
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