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