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yacas — Yet Another Computer Algebra System. More information: <https://www.yacas.org/>.

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How to use the yacas command: Yet Another Computer Algebra System. More information: <https://www.yacas.org/>.

yacas — Yet Another Computer Algebra System. More information: <https://www.yacas.org/>.

Start an interactive yacas session:

yacas

[Interactive] While in a yacas session, execute a statement:

{{Integrate(x)Cos(x)}};

[Interactive] While in a yacas session, display an example:

Example();

[Interactive] Quit from a yacas session:

quit

Execute one or more yacas scripts (without terminal or prompts), then exit:

yacas -p -c {{path/to/script1 path/to/script2 ...}}

Execute and print the result of one statement, then exit:

echo "{{Echo( Deriv(x)Cos(1/x) );}}" | yacas -p -c /dev/stdin

Start an interactive `yacas` session

yacas

[Interactive] While in a `yacas` session, execute a statement

{{Integrate(x)Cos(x)}};

[Interactive] While in a `yacas` session, display an example

Example();

[Interactive] Quit from a `yacas` session

quit

Execute one or more `yacas` scripts (without terminal or prompts), then exit

yacas -p -c {{path/to/script1 path/to/script2 ...}}

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