[Blindmath] accessible math packages

[Birkir R. Gunnarsson]

Joe

R in command line mode is probably your best option for these types f
things at the moment.
I used to use software called Gauss, about 10 years ago, that did a
remarkably good job with regressions, matrices and such, but it was,
like I said, 10 years ago, back when Matlab 6 was pretty accessible.
SPSS pre version 15 is pretty accessible, post Java switch, not really.
This is all on Windows.
I would suggest you take a look at R, to begin with.
Excel is remarkably accessible, and some things it does pretty well,
but matrices and vectors, not so much, though you can trick it into
doing all sorts of things.
Cheers
-Birkir

On 3/29/11, Joseph C. Lininger <jbahm at pcdesk.net> wrote:
> Good afternoon/evening folks,
> I'm wondering which math solutions (matlab and such) are accessible
> under windows with window-eyes and/or under Linux using speakup screen
> reader. At this exact moment, I need to be able to do operations you'd
> typically do in Linear algebra, reduce matrices, invert matrices,
> perform vector operations, etc. I will almost certainly need to use it
> later on in my math studies for more involved things as well. Can anyone
> make suggestions? I tried Matlab because that's what my instructor wants
> the class to use for large matrices, but discovered the installer didn't
> even work. (java it looks like) Is that how the entire package is? I'm
> also interested in using R for some other math stuff I'm working on if
> that is accessible, and would like input on these packages and other
> suggestions if you have them. Thanks in advance.
> Joe
>
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