[GAP Forum] GAP vs PARI/GP

[Alexander Konovalov]

On 16 Dec 2012, at 00:10, Pi wrote:

> Hello
> 
> How do you compare this two free programs: PARI/GP and GAP?
> 
> regards

Hello,

To get an overview of GAP, you may have a look at the Preface from the 
Reference manual http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap1.html
and also at http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap0.html for 
the table of contents. Probably similar materials may be found at PARI/GP
page http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ - for example, the list of areas 
from http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/dochtml/html.stable/ - maybe someone 
may point out to a better source for PARI/GP.

If you have some particular computations in mind and would like to
check whether they are doable in GAP, please just ask. Also, there is
a GAP package Alnuth <http://www.gap-system.org/Packages/alnuth.html>
providing an interface from GAP to some functions from PARI/GP.

Hope this helps,
Alexander