Re: [Edu-sig] mathics - free alternative to Mathematica built on Python and SymPy

2013-02-10 Thread Dan Peirce
It looks impressive, but at the moment on line it appears to be amazingly slow even for simple calculations. On 2/10/13, michel paul pythonic.m...@gmail.com wrote: A student sent me this.: http://www.mathics.org/ It's Mathematica lite, for free. Though built with Python, Sage, and SymPy, it

Re: [Edu-sig] mathics - free alternative to Mathematica built on Python and SymPy

2013-02-10 Thread michel paul
Yeah, it can be slow. As they do say on the site, not necessarily industrial strength, but could be useful for educational purposes. However, who knows how it might be able to improve over time? On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Dan Peirce peirce@gmail.com wrote: It looks impressive, but

Re: [Edu-sig] mathics - free alternative to Mathematica built on Python and SymPy

2013-02-10 Thread michel paul
Yeah, Sage is wonderful. The only problems I've experienced with it: - you can't rely on the public servers as frequently they will go down, and - having a bunch of students use them in a lab can create a bottleneck where everything is being seen as one IP. To use Sage effectively