Report where GAUSS is, its version, and what the workspace holds.

Start here when anything looks wrong. A successful result means the installation was found and can be run.

Discard every symbol, so the next run starts from an empty workspace.

Matrices and results from earlier calls are lost. Write anything worth keeping to a file first.

Run GAUSS code and return what it printed. This is the main tool.

The full GAUSS language is available: matrices, procedures, loops, the library routines, and anything the installation provides.

Symbols created here survive into later calls, so build up an analysis step by step. Use print to show a value; a bare expression prints nothing.

On failure GAUSS reports its own error code and the line of your code it objected to. Note that it compiles before running: an undefined symbol anywhere means nothing ran at all.

keep_state: set false for a throwaway calculation that should leave the workspace untouched.

List every symbol in the workspace with its type and dimensions.

Report one symbol's type and dimensions.

Read a numeric matrix out of the workspace as a table.

The values travel through a CSV file rather than through printed output, so they keep full double precision instead of GAUSS's display rounding.

Create a matrix in the workspace from numbers given here.

values: rows separated by semicolons, numbers within a row separated by commas or spaces, e.g. "1, 2; 3, 4" for a two-by-two matrix.

Load a CSV file into the workspace as a matrix.

skip_header: skip the first row, which is usually column names. GAUSS matrices hold numbers only, so a header row would otherwise be read as data.

Write a matrix to a CSV file, creating the folder if it is missing.