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On 2014-05-18 16:40, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-05-18, Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>
>>      Does Python have good mathematical capabilities?
>
> No.
>
> It has very good numerical computation capabilities, but it does not
> really do "math" (at least not what a mathemetician would consider
> "math").

Many mathematicians would disagree.

   http://sagemath.org/

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco