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Mathematica is super expensive for personal use, unfortunately. Good if you're really into it, but hard as an impulse buy (plus they discriminate based on count
by rtpg 10y ago
Mathematica is super expensive for personal use, unfortunately. Good if you're really into it, but hard as an impulse buy (plus they discriminate based on country and double the price in some places).
- pmiller2 10y agoIt's showing me a price of $310 for the personal edition right now. I think that's worth it if you're going to get a couple hour's usage a month out of it.
- rtpg 10y agoIn Japan it's $600. I wonder if there's any region checking...
- shakna 10y agoGrab a Pi. Might be slow, but if you set it up to just remote shell into it, then you do get access to Mathematica for a fairly small outlie.
- pmiller2 10y agoGreat way to experiment with the language, though, even if it is a bit slow. Can't argue with a $0 price, and the Pi is fun to play with by itself. :)
- UncleSlacky 10y agoYou could just emulate a Pi on an x86 PC and run it that way (though it'll probably be slower than a native Pi), see for example: http://www.linux-mitterteich.de/fileadmin/datafile/papers/2013/qemu_raspiemu_lug_18_sep_2013.pdf http://www.linux-mitterteich.de/fileadmin/datafile/papers/20...
- eggy 10y agoI use the Home Edition which I bought for just under $300 a while back. It is a great mathematics playground, although, concerns over being able to peer review the engine or calcs in the software are valid, not for what I use it for. It is like Emacs for me. I leave it open all day, and just play around in it. The multiple programming paradigms are fun too for coding practice.