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GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on, but not restricted to computational group theory. GAP was developed at Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik (LDFM), RWTH Aachen, Germany from 1986 to 1997. After the retirement of J. Neubüser from the chair of LDFM, the development and maintenance of GAP is coordinated by the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
GAP and its sources, including share packages, data library and the manual, are distributed freely, subject to "copyleft" conditions. GAP runs on any Unix system, under Windows 9x, and on Macintosh systems. It requires a minimum of 32 MB disk space; the full distribution takes about 300 MB. To run GAP one needs a minimum of 20 MB of main memory - for most purposes 128 MB are sufficient.
There were (July 1999) two versions in distribution:
- Version 4 .3 (GAP 4r3), incorporated several new features.
- Version 3.4, patchlevel 4, (GAP 3.4.4) released April 1997.
External link
More details about the system, the software itself and instructions how to obtain and to install it can be found at http://www.gap-system.org.
