[GAP Forum] GAP on ipad

[Bill Allombert]

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.