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Maxima is a mature computer-algebra-system developed by the Maxima Team that manipulates symbolic and numerical expressions with equal facility. Designed for mathematicians, engineers, educators and students, the program performs exact differentiation, integration, Taylor-series expansion, Laplace transforms and the solution of ordinary-differential-equations, while also handling systems of linear equations, polynomials, sets, lists, vectors, matrices and tensors. Because it keeps calculations in exact fractions, arbitrary-precision integers or variable-precision floating-point numbers, Maxima delivers numerically accurate results without the rounding errors typical of fixed-precision tools. Visualization is built in: users can render functions and data sets as two- or three-dimensional plots to inspect qualitative features of models. The current stable release, version 5.47.0, continues a lineage that has evolved through four major numbered versions, each extending the library of symbolic algorithms and improving memory management for large expressions. Typical classroom use cases range from verifying calculus homework to generating step-by-step solutions for ordinary-differential-equations, whereas researchers employ the kernel for tensor algebra in general relativity, control-system transfer-function simplification, and high-precision benchmark tests against commercial CAS packages. Command-line and graphical interfaces are both maintained, so workflows can be scripted for batch symbolic simplification or explored interactively through the wxMaxima front end. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources (e.g. winget), always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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