"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008/11/13 Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Alternatives packaged for Debian seem to be Maxima, > > axiom/openaxiom/FriCAS, sympy - any comments on these?
I asked this in private e-mail rather than to the list. I find the answer really helpful and Jordi is happy for me to post it to the list. > > Maxima is probably the most mature of these... which isn't saying > much, unfortunately. Maxima can often be coaxed to get you the answer > you want for a large class of problems, but it can be maddeningly > difficult to do so. A recent example is that Maxima won't give you the > solution to something like sqrt(x-1) = x -3 in any obvious way unles > you go ahead and square both sides yourself before feeding it to it. > Yacas faces the same problem with this one! > > Axiom is also mature, but it seems to be almost completely abandoned! > They released it, but nobody seems to be maintaining it -- while > Maxima development which is fast-paced and active. I think Openaxiom > is a fork to address this abandonment, but it doesn't seem to be very > developed itself either! These comments are really useful. If I get time, I'll collate these and other comments and put them on the debian science wiki. > > I don't know about FriCAS or sympy. Ask someone else about those. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
