From: Edwin Van leeuwen <edder@...>
Date: 2007-11-21T22:13:26+09:00
Subject: Re: eigenvalues, eigenvectors in Ruby ???

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I don't know about continued fractions ... I don't think that's in
> there. If you want to do that, you'll need something like Maxima, Axiom
> or Yacas. Or a special-purpose exact linear algebra library.
>
> Anybody up to do a Ruby binding to Yacas? There's an R binding to it, so
> it can't be too difficult. There are also Java hooks, so this may be yet
> another JRuby killer app. :)

You can talk to maxima quite easily, because maxima can start as a 
server/daemon, allowing you to just send commands to it via a socket 
(and read the results).

Edwin
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