Re: mumath

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

John wrote:
> On Apr 14, 4:05 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > On Apr 14, 1:32 pm, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > > mumath...
> >
> > > > What is it?
> >
> > > > Rich
> >
> > > wikipedia is my friend:
> >
> > > muMATH is a Computer algebra system, which was developed in the late
> > > 70s and early eighties by Albert D. Rich and David Stoutemyer of the
> > > Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was implemented in the muSIMP
> > > programming language which was built on top of a LISP dialect called
> > > muLISP. Platforms supported were CP/M and TRS-DOS (since muMATH-79),
> > > Apple II (since muMATH-80) and MS-DOS (in muMATH-83, the last version).
> >
> > It's actually a quite capable algebra system, considering the
> > limitations of 64KB machines.
> >
> > -michael
> >
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> > tool--and it's seriously underused."
>
>
> Yep, and this was 27_ish year ago, before the HP28 or other more
> common CAS systems. It was unique.

I remember running the CP/M version on my Apple ][+ around
1982 and being amazed as it filled the screen with the digits
of 100 factorial.  Arbitrary precision integers and rational
arithmetic are amazingly powerful, and quite unusual in the
world of computer arithmetic.

-michael

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