Sage: Free Open Source Python Alternative to Mathematica / MatLab

Re:Sage: Free Open Source Python Alternative to Mathematica ... by ralphb on Monday August 04, 2008 @05:44AM (#266151)

I have been trying out Sage. Although it looks very attractive on paper, the browser-based interface seems very odd way to go about it, and I couldn't get over the hump of adapting to that.

Any suggestions as to how to think about that? Could someone explain the advantage?

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Re:Sage: Free Open Source Python Alternative to Mathematica ... by jsyedidia on Monday August 04, 2008 @12:39PM (#266431)

You don't have to use the browser-based interface if you don't like it. There's also a standard shell based on iPython if you prefer. If you want, just treat it as Python with a ton of mathematical stuff built in.

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