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I wish I knew enough to create the kinda of symbolic solvers available on TI calculators. They're so great but none of it is open in the slightest. Open symbol
by analognoise 6y ago
I wish I knew enough to create the kinda of symbolic solvers available on TI calculators. They're so great but none of it is open in the slightest.
Open symbolic solvers are great and very powerful, but they're almost too powerful. Just a clone of whatever capabilities a TI-89 has on a microcontroller would make me very exceedingly happy.
- kergonath 6y agoYeah I’ve found the TI-89 was a kind of sweet spot. Mathematica is definitely cumbersome to quickly solve a PDE, a small linear equation system, or do some factorisation with trigonometric functions, never mind Maxima. OTOH, linear algebra was kind of a pain on the good old TI-89 once you got into div and curl. Also, Fourier series could have been easier. I wouldn’t use a hand held to do some Python now, but younger me used to program a window manager in Casio BASIC, so it’s not inconceivable that some kids in high school might actually use it...