The software can handle real, complex and interval numbers, vectors and matrices, it can produce 2D/3D plots, and uses Maxima for symbolic operations.

The main aim of the program was to create a tool for testing numerical algorithms, to visualize results, and to demonstrate mathematical content in the classroom.

Then and now the main developer of Euler is René Grothmann, a mathematician at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

Symbolic expressions and other functions were added to communicate with Maxima, and to reach a good degree of integration into the numerical Euler core.

Other available data types are sparse, compressed matrices, a long accumulator for an exact scalar product, and strings.

Indeed, Maxima is used in various Euler functions (e.g. Newton's method) to assist in the computation of derivatives, Taylor expansions and integrals.