On Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 6:04:05 AM UTC-6 Ralf Hemmecke wrote:

On 1/6/26 10:51, 'Doris Behrendt' via sage-devel wrote: 

> I never heard of FriCAS. I just had a look at https:// 
> fricas.sourceforge.net/history.html and some other webpages. I never 
> heard of it tbh. 

The official website is eigther https://fricas.github.io or 
https://fricas.org. 

Since you seem to be interested in guessing, look at 
https://fricas.github.io/api/Guess.html and the respective article 
https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702086. 

A general comparison is hard to make. Since FriCAS grew out of AXIOM, it 
it is a compact system that is strong in many areas, in particular 
integration. A main ingredient of FriCAS is that it comes with a 
strongly typed programming language that may detect wrong code already 
at compile time. SAGE probably covers more areas by incorporating lots 
of other open-source packages into a whole system. It's programming 
language is Python (or Cython). 


Sage certainly covers more maths areas than Axiom/FriCAS, and usually with 
efficient implementations.
E.g. doing number theory or graph theory, or group theory, or coding theory 
in Axiom/FriCAS isn't going to take you very far.
OTOH Sage never had its own symbolic integration, it merely provides 
interfaces, whereas in Axiom/FriCAS it's
one of the areas where it excels. 

 

In fact, SAGE also has an interface to 
FriCAS and allows to use the FriCAS integration routines from within SAGE. 

Maybe other people can add. 

Ralf 

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