Math::Symbolic version 0.100 ============================ Math::Symbolic is intended to offer symbolic calculation capabilities to the Perl programmer without using external (and commercial) libraries and/or applications. Unless, however, some interested and knowledgable developers turn up to participate in the development, the library will be severely limited by my experience in the area. Symbolic calculations are an active field of research in CS. Some information on the state of things: Currently, the interface is weak. Since version 0.08, a parser for algebraic expressions is integrated into Math::Symbolic. It does not, however, parse variables at this time. This will be fixed in a future release. The interface is badly documented. Please refer to the tests and example programs. Partial derivatives of logarithms, exponentiations, and arithmetic terms (*,/,+,- and unary minus as well as variables and constants) work rather well - albeit slowly. Simplification of algebraic terms is severely limited at this time. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Test::More Exporter Parse::RecDescent COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2003 Steffen Mueller Author can be reached at symbolic-module at steffen-mueller dot net This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.