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pr_fancycorn
12y ago
If it's about "ethics", that makes sense. But if price is what prevents, say, a software dude in the bay area from trying out Mathematica, well that's just l, o, l; i, m, o.
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pr_fancycorn
12y ago
That's about right. It's somewhat of a superset of most languages, with Lisp chosen as its programmatic subset of choice. And its libraries are huge. Something like a few thousand functions. And the IDE uses the same language, so
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pr_fancycorn
12y ago
That's because they were showing off the functionality of GeoGraphics. To do that for general images you would just load an image and place text on top of it, with a function like Overlay or ImageCompose: img = Import["c:&
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pr_fancycorn
12y ago
It uses raw lists as the data structure for everything (including code) and has enormous math/sci and presentation infrastructure. Every part of the system can easily talk to any other part of the system. Because of this you can just t
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pr_fancycorn
13y ago
What you are getting at here is the fact that Mathematica is a symbolic language through-and-through. In my webpage here: http://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm I try to give passing mentions to how the Mathematica langua
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pr_fancycorn
13y ago
(author here) I wanted to mention that I'm not a mathematician, or anything in particular. Any math grad should know comfortably more than me. I'm basically just a "hobbyist of everything," like a "midget polymath&q
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The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages
(oftenpaper.net)
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