Wow! That's impressive! You should make a Youtube video 😉

Jared


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From: Ros-dev <ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org> on behalf of Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO 
<hermes.belu...@sfr.fr>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 8:49 PM
To: 'ReactOS Development List'
Subject: [ros-dev] A surprising epic win: Wolfram Mathematica on ReactOS


Hi all,



I was pleasantly surprised to notice that the symbolic computation program « 
Wolfram Mathematica », in its version 8.0.4 (later versions are for Vista+ 
only), actually works quite pretty well on ReactOS (as of r74550): see the 
screen-capture at http://i.imgur.com/KegyW79.png .

[http://i.imgur.com/KegyW79.png]

This software is broadly used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical, 
and computing fields. This is for example used intensively in theoretical 
physics (in high-energy physics, statistical physics etc.) due to the existence 
of numerous packages that have been developed for it. The only problem of this 
software resides in its price…

On the screen-capture I demonstrate an infinitesimal portion of what 
Mathematica can do: for the non-connoisseurs :) the picture shows the 
computation of the integral (area under the curve) of the 1-dimensional 
Gaussian function over the whole real axis (the result is square-root of pi), 
and then I plot in 3 dimensions the map of a 2-D Gaussian function, where on 
the horizontal plane there are the x and y axes, and the vertical axis is the z 
axis. The 3-D graph can be rotated, zoomed-in and out with the mouse, it can be 
edited, etc… The software also proposes an extensive and interactive help 
documentation. Finally I show the “fancy” text-mode only interface of 
Mathematica, that nobody actually uses (it is only used when computing stuff in 
batch-mode).

There are almost no graphical glitches. Few font problems can be seen (see the 
about-box, and the minus signs on the graph replaced by boxes). There are few 
keyboard shortcut problems such as pressing (on French keyboards) AltGr-5 to 
enter ‘[‘ doesn’t work, but anyways…



Enjoy!



Best,

Hermès
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