On Sep 21, 10:39 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/21/10 06:12 PM, Niles wrote: > > > I'd just like to comment that, if the wording "nearest Mathematica > > equivalent" is going to be an essential part of this, then it should > > be very carefully chosen, and probably implemented through some > > Maybe "nearest" is not appropriate. Perhaps "similar" or something like that, > so > it avoids any arguments about what is similar and what is not.
How about "close analogue". As you've said or alluded to, without a full transformation of the grammar, it's not a "Natural Transformation"/functor if I'm using the correct maths terminology. > Nobody can expect the commands to be identical - except for trivial ones like > Sin[], Cos[]. In the case of factor() there are two very obvious Mathematica > commands that provide broadly similar functionality. Since Mma doesn't post it's BNF (Grammar), it's an exercise in reverse engineering. -Don -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
