Nicolas George wrote:
> Tor Olav Kristensen  wrote in message <479a40f5$1@news.povray.org>:
>> For calculations with matrices, polynomials, vectors, complex numbers,
>> quaternions etc.
> 
> You may find PARI/GP more convenient for that.

Ok. Thank you for the tip.

I have had very few real need for such tools. I just did it for
learning more about the math and POV-Ray's SDL.

But it is great that there are such tools that are open source.
I see that it is available in Gentoo, so maybe I'll try it out.

tok@storeblaa ~ $ emerge --search pari
Searching...
[ Results for search key : pari ]
[ Applications found : 4 ]

*  dev-perl/math-pari
      Latest version available: 2.010709
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 1,616 kB
      Homepage:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/I/IL/ILYAZ/modules/Math-Pari-2.010709.readme
      Description:   Perl interface to PARI
      License:       || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

*  sci-mathematics/pari
      Latest version available: 2.3.2
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 1,968 kB
      Homepage:      http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/
      Description:   A software package for computer-aided number theory
      License:       GPL-2

*  sci-mathematics/pariguide [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 0.43a
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 571 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.skalatan.de/pariguide/
      Description:   PariGUIde, a GUI for the math. program Pari-GP
      License:       GPL-2

*  sys-apps/lsparisc [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 0.3
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 23 kB
      Homepage:      http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/lsparisc
      Description:   Like lspci but for PARISC devices
      License:       GPL-2

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Tor Olav
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