1 Overview

JACAL is an interactive symbolic mathematics program. JACAL can manipulate and simplify equations, scalars, vectors, matrices, and tensors of (single and multiple valued) algebraic expressions containing numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic and transcendental functions.

JACAL 2a1 was released August 2026. Current information about JACAL can be found on JACAL’s WWW home page:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/JACAL

JACAL, part of the GNU project, is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; See the file COPYING with this program or type (terms)(); to JACAL for details.

For a list of the features that have changed since the last JACAL release, see the file ANNOUNCE. For a list of the features that have changed over time, see the file ChangeLog.