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Re:SymPy 1.7 by creata on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:03PM (#25255984)
> SymPy is pretty niche

I don't know; I use isympy (interactive sympy, uses IPython if installed) as a local Wolfram Alpha for all my math problems, and it's really good at that.

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Re:SymPy 1.7 by qubex on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:08PM (#25257559)
> as a local Wolfram Alpha

It’s called Mathematica, son.

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Re:SymPy 1.7 by falcor84 on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:30PM (#25257860)
Maybe like me, they grew up in a country where mathematics itself is pronounced "mathematica" (which is a huge fraction of languages [0]), leading to avoiding that name for the software.

[0] https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/mathematics

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Re:SymPy 1.7 by voldacar on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:39PM (#25259962)
Aren't there some things that WA can do that mathematica can't? like step-by-step explanations of how to do an integral
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