[sdiy] Useful SW

[Neil Johnson]

Hi all,

The last few days I've finally got maxima working on my Mac,  
including gnuplot.  While I've used it in the past for designing  
filters, now that I have it at home it has been really useful for  
crunching numbers while working on some op-amp circuits.  So I  
thought I'd share this with the you in case you haven't heard or  
tried it yet.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

(For OSX fans, you'll need AquaTerm installed first, then gnuplot  
4.0.0.  Note that if you install AquaTerm 1.0.1 you'll need to add a  
symbolic link to point a 1.0.0 lib to the 1.0.1 lib otherwise gnuplot  
will whine.)

There's a fancy frontend written in WxWidgets called WxMaxima.  If  
you like that kind of thing.

On Windows there are ready-to-go installers.  And it should also be  
available on most Linuxes.

Cheers,
Neil
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