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“some math software called Maple”. I still use a version of Maple that I bought in 1998. I found subsequent versions of it much harder to use and I've never fou
by Timwi 2y ago
“some math software called Maple”. I still use a version of Maple that I bought in 1998. I found subsequent versions of it much harder to use and I've never found an open-source software that could do what it can do. I don't need anything fancy, just occasionally solve an equation or a system of equations, or maybe plot a simple function. That old copy of Maple continues to serve me extremely well.
- zozbot234 2y agoI assume that you're familiar with Maxima? It's perhaps the most commonly used open-source CAS - there are some emerging alternatives like Sympy. That aside, yes it's interesting that an old program from 1998 can still serve us quite well.
- hulitu 2y ago> Maxima Never heard about it. BLAS, Octave, Scilab
- xmcqdpt2 2y agoThose are not CAS though, they are numerical software. Maxima main features are based on symbolic transformations.
- vrighter 2y agoI avoid anything with the "-py" suffix like the plague. It's pretty much a guarantee that anything I write today, will not run next year. I'd stick with maxima. With wxMaxima, it's actually quite nice.