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On 2014-05-21 01:40, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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.

But all easily available with well-established open source packages. Just 
because it's not in the standard library doesn't mean that Python isn't a 
suitable language for doing this stuff.

-- 
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