3 Packages in the contrib directory are considered external to Maxima;
4 see the README file in that directory.
5 The remaining directories and packages might be part of the Maxima
6 distribution but are placed here because they are considered additional
7 packages not used very often, or because they are still in the
8 development phase. Once they are stable they might be moved to the
9 main distribution or the may be made automatically loadable when needed.
11 Notes on specific packages:
13 combinatorics/ Package for combinatorial algorithms: permutations,
14 partitions, tableaux, etc. By Jaime Villate.
16 descriptive/ Mario Rodriguez Riotorto's descriptive statistics
17 package from http://www.telefonica.net/web2/biomates/
19 distrib/ Mario Rodriguez Riotorto's probability distributions
20 package from http://www.telefonica.net/web2/biomates/
22 diffequations/ This directory contains additional methods for
23 solving ordinary differential equations. Written
24 by David Billinghurst.
26 numericalio/ Robert Dodier's package for reading and writing
29 pdiff/ This is Barton Willis's pdiff package from
30 http://www.unk.edu/acad/math/people/willisb/
32 simplex/ Andrej Vodopivec's code for the two-phase standard simplex
35 solve_rec/ Andrej Vodopivec's code for solving recurrence equations
36 with polynomial coefficients. It uses Petkovsek's hyper
37 algorithm and Abramov's algorithm.
39 stringproc/ A Maxima string package by Volker van Nek.
41 pytranslate/ Maxima to Python Translation developed as Google Summer
42 of Code project under mentorship of Dimiter Prodanov and