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On Sun, 18 May 2014 14:09:43 -0400, "Bill Cunningham"
<nospam@nspam.invalid> declaimed the following:

>    linear algebra, expanding and factoring equations of all degrees. 
>Geometry.
>
	Without significant add-in libraries, probably not...

	"Expanding and factoring equations" -- to me -- implies /symbolic
algebra systems/.

	Python can compute results of equations, but it won't, natively,
reformulate equations.

	Linear algebra tends to turn into matrix manipulation, as I recall...
Again, not a native feature.
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