Cheers H, You obviously type much faster than me as your response came in the time it took me to respond to the previous post. I think I'm gonna give it a go and see how I do. The examples I've seen so far in the documentation all seem to make sense. I've come across Python before but as a user not a programmer. XBMC has it and my old Nokia 5800 had it and further programs then seemed to run on it, much like java. Something else new to learn...
On Nov 9, 8:34 pm, Harald Schilly <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
