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Re:Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica by soegaard on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:36AM (#33480086)
> my first question is "can I write, and see, maths as actual maths instead of as programming statement?"

What would that look like?

Do you have a hypothetical example?

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Re:Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica by dagw on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:48AM (#33480175)
I suspect they mean they want something like this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ymrym.png

As opposed to something like

  def f(x,k) = Sum(k,math.inf, (math.pi*pow(sqrt(x),k))*sin(2*theta*(sqrt(...
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