Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.009 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'linear': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'algebra,': 0.16; 'equations': 0.16; 'kern': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'stuff,': 0.16; 'underlying': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'interpret': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'expanding': 0.29; 'robert': 0.30; 'too.': 0.31; 'something': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'bill': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'our': 0.64; 'world': 0.66; 'believe': 0.68; 'eco': 0.84; 'factoring': 0.84; 'terrible': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Robert Kern Subject: Re: Python and Math Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:32:08 +0100 References: <537bfa73$0$42909$c3e8da3$1920ae85@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.1.240.226 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <537bfa73$0$42909$c3e8da3$1920ae85@news.astraweb.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1400664746 news.xs4all.nl 2830 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59520 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:71848 On 2014-05-21 01:59, Tony the Tiger wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014 14:09:43 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > >> linear algebra, expanding and factoring equations of all degrees. >> Geometry. > > Sounds to me like you really want something like Maple, Mathematica, or > similar. Try http://www.scilab.org/ > > Can do heaps of stuff, too. For free. And with Python! 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