- GiNaC
Infobox_Software
name = GiNaC
caption =
developer = Christian Bauer, Alexander Frink, Richard B. Kreckel, et al.
latest_release_version = 1.4.3
latest_release_date =April 4 ,2008
programming language =C++
operating_system =Cross-platform
genre =Mathematical software
license = GPL
website = http://www.ginac.de/GiNaC is a free
computer algebra system released under theGNU General Public License . The name is arecursive acronym for "GiNaC is Not a CAS" (Computer Algebra System). This misleading name is an allusion to the GNU project.What distinguishes GiNaC from most other computer algebra systems is that it does not provide a high-level interface for user interaction. Rather, it encourages its users to write symbolic algorithms directly in
C++ , which is GiNaC's implementationprogramming language . Algebraic syntax is achieved in C++ through the use ofoperator overloading . The name GiNaC is also explained by its developers' perception that most "computer algebra systems" put too much emphasis on a high-level interface and too little on interoperability.GiNaC uses the CLN library for implementing arbitrary precision arithmetic. Symbolically, it can do multivariate polynomial arithmetic and compute GCDs, series expansions and matrices. It is equipped to handle certain non-commutative algebras which are extensively used in theoretical high energy physics: Clifford algebras, SU(3)
Lie_algebra s, and Lorentz tensors. Due to this, it is extensively used in dimensional regularization computations — but it is not restricted to physics.ee also
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Comparison of computer algebra systems External links
* [http://www.ginac.de/ GiNaC website]
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