How about Fortran vs C? Python vs Perl? Chicken vs Beef? Alien vs Predator? Genuine Help-seekers vs Deliberate Time-wasters?
On 02/07/2011, at 11:38 PM, Timmy Siu wrote: > Hi Friends, > How do you rate Maxima and SciLab? Both are open source. :-\ > > Faithfully, > Timmy > > >> Advice to math users - >> Develope a hand calculated test case to check the accuracy of the SW. This >> should be something like what you want to calculate. >> A few years ago a SW company tried to sell the Engineers at GE Engine Control >> Systems a do it all package. In front of the audience and Developers I put >> up a test case with a trivial answer that was known as a truth. It failed >> miserably due to errors in the input translation from the GUI to the real >> calculations. >> So before you use a Math Package build a test case - all you need is bad >> answers to waste time, money or destroy machinery. >> >> Sign on my wall - "To error is human it takes a computer to really foul >> things >> up". ! >> >> I'm not being picky but just be careful in applying it. >> >> Try "R" for fun and games. >> How about a fast Fourier transform to convert time domain stuff to frequency >> domain. Helps exercise the neurons. >> >> Larry Linder >> On Friday 01 July 2011 11:50 am, Alain Péan wrote: >>> Le 01/07/2011 17:16, Timmy Siu a écrit : >>>> Dear All SL User: >>>> I found this mathematics software. It is very big in size (about 1GB >>>> after extraction). It doesn't have any GUI. It only comes in Linux >>>> binary, no windows binary. >>>> >>>> Can anyone give some hint to using it and what task can it compute?? :-( >>>> >>>> http://www.sagemath.org/index.html >>> Hi Timmy, >>> >>> If I remember correctly, Sage has indeed a GUI, but through a web >>> interface. See : >>> http://www.sagemath.org/tour-graphics.html >>> >>> It is in fact a Python software mixing a lot of scientific tools (Numpy, >>> scipy, Matplotlib and so on...). It has indeed a windows version (why >>> not, it is Python, and web interface ?), and also for mac osx, solaris... >>> http://www.sagemath.org/download-windows.html >>> >>> Alain
