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I know it's a very general question, but can I ask what sort of calculations you perform using Mathematica? Every time it has a new release, I download the demo

by cytzol 6y ago

I know it's a very general question, but can I ask what sort of calculations you perform using Mathematica? Every time it has a new release, I download the demo and play around with it, but I never get as far as using it to actually compute anything that other CLI calculators couldn't do.

oefrha 6y ago
I’m a physicist so all kinds of numerical and symbolic calculations, e.g. very complicated integrals, differential equations, integral equations, and so on. I also work on math problems either seriously (way back when I was an undergrad I worked on some number theoretical problems where computational insight is very important) or for fun (think Project Euler style problems). If you just need to a calculator to do everyday arithmetic or unit conversions, or even simple physics calculations with units, it’s serious overkill... I certainly hardly ever need it when I’m wearing my programmer hat. I guess to answer is that the boundary between a calculator and a full blown computational environment is very blurry to me.