Yacas

Infobox Software
name = Yacas


caption = Yacas as a TeXmacs session
developer = Ayal Pinkus et al.
latest_release_version = 1.2.2
latest_release_date = September, 2007
programming language = C++
operating_system = Cross-platform [http://sourceforge.net/projects/yacas/ (list)]
genre = Computer algebra system
license = GPL
website = [http://yacas.sourceforge.net/ Yacas homepage]

Yacas (IPAEng|ˈjækəs) is a general-purpose computer algebra system. The name is an acronym for "Yet Another Computer Algebra System".

Released under the GNU General Public License, Yacas is free software.

YACAS is a general purpose computer algebra system, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary-precision numerical computations. The system has a library of scripts that implement many of the symbolic algebra operations; new algorithms can be easily added to the library. YACAS comes with extensive documentation covering the scripting language, the functionality that is already implemented in the system, and the algorithms used.

Yacas handles input and output in plain ASCII or in OpenMath, either interactively or in batch mode.

ee also

*Euler, a numerical software package that can be linked with YACAS
*Comparison of computer algebra systems

External links

* [http://yacas.sourceforge.net/ Yacas Sourceforge website]
* [http://gbi.agrsci.dk/~sorenh/misc/GUYacas/index.html GUYacas] : Graphical User Interface to Yacas on Windows (standalone).