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sagemath is monolithic, and incorporates many other foss libraries within it. Other commenters here are discussing comparing scilab with Octave, and sagemath in
by mixedmath 9y ago
sagemath is monolithic, and incorporates many other foss libraries within it. Other commenters here are discussing comparing scilab with Octave, and sagemath includes all of Octave.
- williamstein 9y agoI wish — unfortunately, SageMath doesn’t actually include Octave. I tried to include Octave at one point, but it took far too long to build from source and replicated too much functionality already available in Numpy/Scipy to make it worth the work at the time. I did write a (maybe not so great) pexpect interface between Sage and Octave, and there is also a Jupyter kernel that lets you call Octave from Python. Similar remarks apply to SciLab. A big point of Sage after all is getting open source math software to work together rather than compete. We are all on the same team!