What is Giac/Xcas?
Giac/Xcas is a powerful, open-source computer algebra system (CAS) used for symbolic computation in mathematics, science, and engineering. It offers capabilities for symbolic calculations, solving equations, simplifying algebraic expressions, differentiation and integration, 2D/3D plotting, statistics, and more.
Some key features and capabilities of Giac/Xcas include:
- Symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions and formulas
- Numerical computations with arbitrary precision
- Solving algebraic equations, ODEs, PDEs, inequalities, etc.
- Differentiation, integration, Taylor series expansions
- 2D and 3D plotting with animations
- Statistics: distributions, hypothesis testing, regressions
- List-based programming language for scripting
- BNF grammatical parser for custom user-defined functions
- Powerful predefined mathematical functions and constants
- Can be used as a standalone CAS program or integrated into other software like SageMath
- Available on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and online via web interface
- Free and open-source software released under the GPL license
With its extensive math capabilities, flexibility through scripting, and multi-platform availability, Giac/Xcas is utilized worldwide by students, teachers, scientists, and engineers across academia, education, and industry.
Windows Calculator, Mathematica, MATLAB, Maple, GeoGebra, GnuPlot, SMath Studio, Microsoft Mathematics, Microsoft Calculator Plus, Golden Software Grapher, GraphCalc, KAlgebra, WordMat, SymPy, Graphmatica, Xcos, Qalculate!, GeoGebra Scientific Calculator, Matplotlib, engineeringsuite, Mathmatiz, Autograph, Linux Extcalc are some alternatives to Giac/Xcas.