一、keys and simbols
- (% i1) (%o1) %
- maxima dstinguishes lower and upper case. All built-in functions and constants have lowercase names.
- quit();
- control + c
- ;
- $
- %e, %i, %pi
二、arithmetic
- + - * /
- ^ or ** exponentiation
- . matrix multiplication
- sqrt()
- , numer express a result in decimal notation. In Maxima version 5.38.1, numer gives 16 significant figures, of which the last one is often unreliable.
- bfloat() maxima can offer arbitrarily high precision by using the float function
- fpprec the number of significant figures displayed while using bloat() is controlled by the Maxima variable fpprec
- ''%i5 ''repeat command
(%i1) %pi, numer; (%o1) 3.141592653589793 (%i2) bfloat(%pi); (%o2