On Wednesday, November 9, 2011 9:21:08 PM UTC+1, Chris wrote: > > After my annual license for Maple ran out I started searching for an > alternative and came across Sage. >
Welcome to Sage! > > 1. Why install if there appears to be a web based interface? > Well, there are a couple of reasons: we don't guarantee you anything for the web-service, i.e. lost data, downtime of a couple of days, lost accounts, etc. That's disappointing, but things like that can happen. Second, you only have a limited amount of CPU time and memory. Locally, you can run much larger tasks. Also, running Sage locally is much much faster, because there is no round-trip time due to the network and the load of all the other uses concurrently doing calculations. And last but not least, your internet connection might be down. > > 2. Is there a "Natural Display" type equation editor for it? No, and what you should really look into first is to learn a bit of Python. You don't need to be a programming genius, but keep in mind that you already had to learn the maple syntax to use maple. With Sage, you are actually learning Python and the more you know, the easier it is to understand what is going on and how to use Sage to its full extent. H -- 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-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
