Hi Tom, >From scilab's website: "Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications". This is great if you want to do numerical computations or "engineering and scientific applications", but it's not so hot for doing things like number theory, exact linear algebra, commutative algebra, combinatorics, group theory, etc. It offers almost no functionality in these areas since they aren't really in scilab's scope.
Many of Sage's developers are mathematicians interested in exactly those areas that I mentioned above including William Stein (who I'm guessing is the one you saw give a lecture). --Mike On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:26 PM, miner_tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Last night I became aware of SAGE through a televised lecture by the > developer. I am familiar with different mathematical software, and one > of the key reasons that the developer gave for all of the effort that > he put into developing SAGE was that there was no open source > mathematical software "out there" that would do the job. > > I was wondering, since SCILAB is open source, why was SCILAB not > satisfactory? > > Thank You > Tom > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
