From: oinkoink+unet@... (Bret Jolly) Date: 2004-11-24T03:18:02+09:00 Subject: Re: algebra calculator ... Wild Karl-Heinz wrote in message news:<1667590558.20041123075114@wicom.li>... > I do some mathematics studys at school. > Do validate me homework I don't have > a ruby calculator for algebra. > I would like to have one :-) > Yes I know, I could if I knew what you know, > write my one :-) > It there anything out there do solve > problems like > (a^2b^3c) > --------- > (a^2-2) > or just > (2ab^2-c^2)(ab-bc^2) > maybe with describing the steps? The algebra package in the RAA by Shin-Ichiro Hara is *very* good, but it is probably too high-faluting for you. (It is really meant for mathematicians. If you don't know what a ring is, you'll have a hard time using it.) I have a low-faluting polynomial library called Pnom that can do a fair amount of basic algebra and which is compatible with the Ruby mathn library, but I need to implement some good, general, root-finding algorithms before it is ready for public consumption. It also might assume a little more math knowledge than what you are looking for. So I guess you'll just have to write it yourself :-). Regards, Bret