Re: Math::Math_Algebra package ?

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:15:05 -0500, Louis Mullie <louis@mulliemedia.com> wrote: > ATTN: The time on my system clock was set to 2003 so the message I sent > might have not sorted well for people using newsgroups. Please disregard > the old one and use this one to comment instead. Sorry for any > inconvenience this might have caused. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hello, > > I have been working on a class that handles basic algebra for the last > month, and thought I'd contribute it to the PEAR repository, but first > I'd like to get some feedback on the idea. The features would be : > > * Simplify an algebraic chain (already implemented, support for > fractions, parentheses, powers, etc. is there) > > * Resolve first-degree one variable equations (under development) > > * Calculate simple algebraic division and multiplications (additions & > substractions go in *1) (i.e, 6ab * 10ab = 60a^2b2) (already implemented > too) > > * Results returned as objects which have an API for returning the result > either as HTML or as plain text (already implemented) > > Please comment :) Sounds great. It would be great to have some real algebra functionality in PHP. > > Regards, > > Louis Mullie > <louis@mulliemedia.com> > -- Justin Patrin