Math::Symbolic is intended to offer symbolic calculation capabilities to the Perl programmer without using external (and commercial) libraries and/or applications. Possibly the most convenient way of constructing Math::Symbolic trees is using the builtin parser to generate trees from expressions such as '2 * x^5'. You may use the Math::Symbolic->parse_from_string() class method for this. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Symbolic Author: Steffen Mueller