[GAP Forum] GAP on ipad

[John McDermott]

Apologies for the delay to Bill's message. I missed it during a sweep of mails for moderation done just after it sent and just discovered it today.

John


On 10 Sep 2014, at 17:40, Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:05:30PM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Ahmet Arıkan wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear forum,
>>> 
>>> My question may be asked before. I wonder if GAP can  be installed on ipad? If possible how?
>> 
>> It is surely possible. The ipad runs a "unix like" system on an ARM
>> cpu, and it is possible to run a shell on it. As far as I know,
>> noone has done this (at least not publicly), so there is no
>> installation package, or simple instructions how to do this, though.
> 
> For what is worth, this how it was done for PARI/GP so maybe a similar
> procedure could work with GAP (both being math programs running in a terminal
> in a unix environment).
> 
> <http://sagemath.blogspot.it/2010/06/pari-on-ipad-component-of-sage.html>
> 
> Note that this is dated June 2010 and that the first step is to jailbreak your
> phone.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill.
> 
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