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Is there a program, free or otherwise, that lets you to do various algebraic manipulations, like: - complete the square - factorise something out - exp
by man-and-laptop 8y ago
Is there a program, free or otherwise, that lets you to do various algebraic manipulations, like:
- complete the square
- factorise something out
- expand something out
- etc
Doing that stuff by hand can get tedious.
I find that Sympy's simplify() often doesn't do what I want. WolframAlpha often understands what I want better. It seems like it would need non-trivial work on the UI front.
- svantana 8y agoMy go-to for these things is wolframalpha.com, mainly for ease of access, and the natural language interface means I don't have to remember any syntax. You can input queries like "complete the square ax^2 + bx + c" or "derivative of exp(x^3)" and get solutions, it's a real timesaver. Also, for vector/matrix derivatives, http://www.matrixcalculus.org/ http://www.matrixcalculus.org/ is amazing.
- zorked 8y agoMaxima (maxima.sf.net) is one way to do that (and a lot more). I even have it on my Android phone.