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I've had good success with wxMaxima as well, but none of the equations I've worked with can fill a blackboard. SymPy is very nice as well, but for obvious reas

• lokedhs 6y ago
  Do you accept the output from Climaxima? Granted, the project isn't near finished (currently held back due to some dependency issues). I included some example videos in this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24467593 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24467593
• ogogmad 6y ago
  I use Sympy interactively, and I don't know what you mean by "forced". It doesn't feel that way to me.
  • jgalt212 6y ago
    this is a bit rush, but an example setting up the quadratic equation. f(x) := a*x^2 + b*x + c solve( f(x),x ); from sympy import symbols, solve a, b, c, x = sympy.symbols(('a', 'b', 'c', 'x')) y = sympy.Eq(a*x**2+b*x+c, 0) solve(y, x)
    • ogogmad 6y ago
      I would change the first two lines to: from sympy.abc import * from sympy import * I would put that into a file, and auto-load it at startup so I don't need to run it manually every time - one way of doing that is using iPython profiles. Also put this in your startup file to get more pleasant looking output: init_printing(use_unicode=True) Once you've done that, you only need to type: y = a*x**2 + b*x + c solve(y,x)
      • forgotpwd16 6y ago
        SymPy already comes with `isympy` script that will import everything from SymPy and create some common symbols (x, y, z, t, k, m, n, f, g, h) using either `python` or `ipython` (default). To do what you said the following script may be run. #!/usr/bin/env python from sympy.abc import * from sympy import * import code init_printing() code.interact(local=locals())