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Maxima is a descendant of DOE Macsyma, which had its origins in the late
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1960s at MIT. It is the only system based on that effort still publicly
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available and with an active user community, thanks to its open source
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nature. Macsyma was the first of a new breed of computer algebra
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systems, leading the way for programs such as Maple and Mathematica.
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Maxima itself is reasonably feature complete at this stage, with
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abilities such as symbolic integration, 3D plotting, and an ODE solver,
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but there is a lot of work yet to be done in terms of bug fixing,
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cleanup, and documentation.
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