I realized the problem is because your warning "syms ..."
The idea is to upload the Matlab syms.m function and change its name to ssyms for instance, then
sssyms x y z
it works fine
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Hi, thanks for pointing this out. I’ve gone ahead and made the Symbolic package automatically in the Octave load path, including the built-in “syms” function. There was a major upgrade to the Symbolic package last month, which seems to have significantly improved the stability.