Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by pron on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:08PM (#19972937)

I know, but that's not what I asked. The question about numeric vs. symbolic was how common it is for software applications to require symbolic mathematics vs. numerical math.

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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by badpun on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:06PM (#19974331)

For anything with an research element, symbolic is huge. On the other hand, if you're just implementing already well-researched algorithms and methods, it's much less needed.

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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by enriquto on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:48PM (#19974137)

I'd guess if you count combinatorics as symbolic math, then most of software applications are essentially based on symbolic math.

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