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Description:
Symbolic manipulation system

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: symbolic-math physics algebra scientific-computing formula-manipulation

Install: brew install form

About:
FORM is a high-performance symbolic manipulation system designed for efficient processing of large algebraic expressions. It excels at handling extremely large polynomial expressions and tensor algebra, making it indispensable in high-energy physics research. Its parallel processing capabilities allow it to scale across clusters for computationally intensive calculations.

Key Features:

Optimized for extremely large algebraic expressions
Parallel processing support (multi-threading and multi-machine)
High-performance polynomial and tensor algebra
Minimal memory footprint design

Use Cases:

High-energy physics calculations and Feynman diagram algebra
Large-scale polynomial manipulation
Symbolic computation for theoretical physics research

Alternatives:

Mathematica – Commercial, GUI-based system with broader functionality but less optimized for massive physics calculations
SymPy – Python library, more accessible but significantly slower for large-scale symbolic manipulation

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2025 5:00pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	924e0d2e
Sep 13, 2024 7:21am		0	VERSION_BUMP	78347177