JJL101@PSUVM.BITNET (J.J. Lehett) (11/29/89)
Does anyone have any details on the Form symbolic math program?
What is the minumum set-up it takes.... etc. Use, applications.....
Thanks for any info.
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********************************************************************t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) (11/29/89)
Hi, The files with FORM (like the readme) tell most of the story, but for people who would like to know before they unpack: FORM needs a 1 Mbyte Atari with a hard disk. It is very good with the standard symbolic expressions (multivariate polynomials, functions) and in addition it knows vectors and indices. It has exptensive capabilities for pattern matching when making substitutions. It is set up for very large expressions and is by far the fastest program for such big expressions that I know of. (big means > 10^5 terms) It has most of the features of a regular programming language and then some. It does NOT have a large knowledge library like maple, mathematica reduce and macsyma. You will have to provide the algorithms for solving difficult problems yourself. This is what you have to do most of the time anyway when you have large problems. Such algorithms can be stored inside procedures that can be picked up dynamically. (They are in the regular FORM language). There is a manual with many examples. (this is if you can read the dvi file) Jos Vermaseren Disclamor: This cannot possibly represent the opinion of my employer. Guess why.....
suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) (12/01/89)
In article <89332.135731JJL101@PSUVM.BITNET> JJL101@PSUVM.BITNET (J.J. Lehett) writes: > > Does anyone have any details on the Form symbolic math program? >What is the minumum set-up it takes.... etc. Use, applications..... > In manual (or in readme-file) it says that FORM needs 1M RAM and a HD (not sure about that; I just feel I read it from somewhear). But I think you should be able to use it at lest for small problems with SS floppy disk and 1M memory. I have used FORM 1 (one!) day with my 1M 520ST and a HD. It works really fine!!! I think FORM is one of the best programs I have for my ST. Hope this helps a little... -- Timo Suhonen suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi I logged in, therefor I am
covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) (12/05/89)
In article <2230@tukki.jyu.fi>, suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes: > In manual (or in readme-file) it says that FORM needs 1M RAM and a HD > (not sure about that; I just feel I read it from somewhear). But I think > you should be able to use it at lest for small problems with SS floppy > disk and 1M memory. I have used FORM 1 (one!) day with my 1M 520ST and > a HD. It works really fine!!! I think FORM is one of the best programs > I have for my ST. > > Hope this helps a little... > > -- > Timo Suhonen suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi > I logged in, therefor I am Could someone please repost the manual to FORM in ASCII?? I have it in the DVI format and I don't have the proper DVI tools to convert it to ASCII. Other than that I haven't looked at FORM. Does anyone know how to get DVI to work on an Apollo UNIX based workstation? I don't have any files for my Apollo for DVI. If I could get DVI working on my Apollo I would repost the manual in ASCII myself. -- Richard E. Covert (covertr@gtephx) (602) - 581-4652 | AG Communications Systems, Phoenix AZ | UUCP: {ncar!noao!asuvax | uunet!zardoz!hrc | att}!gtephx!covertr