[sympy] Introduction to the Sympy Community

2017-12-23 Thread Tarun Kumar
Hi Everyone, I am Tarun Kumar, Computer Science Undergrad at BITS Pilani, India. I have almost 1 year of experience in Python and have mainly used it for Backend Development and some Machine Learning. I recently came across Sympy and was fascinated by the way it works. I have not used it much

[sympy] Re: A small bug on simplify with double powers.

2017-12-23 Thread Chris Smith
SymPy should not to do anything automatically that is not generally true. In this case, making x nonnegative is sufficient to get it to do what you want. >>> var('x', nonnegative=True) x >>> (x**8)**(Rational(1,4)) x**2 If you want that done without creating a new 'x' use powdenest with

[sympy] Introduction to the community.

2017-12-23 Thread Thomas Favory
Hi, My name is Thomas. I have a degree in Mathematics and Statistics. However, I cannot recall my courses with symbolic math systems. I used to do some statistical analysis with R, and I have been interested in Python for a about a year now. I am enthusiastic about SymPy since a couple of