On 04/24/12 06:21 PM, Keshav Kini wrote:
I find it a little bizarre that almost 40% of respondents consider Python better at symbolic manipulation than Mathematica.Mathematica is practically built for symbolic manipulation, and in Sage a lot of hard work has gone into pynac because plain Python does not have symbolics support.
Yes, could not agree more.
-Keshav
A bizarre result. Clearly Mathematica is better at symbolics. Arguably it is the best language for this.
Perhaps it's skewed by the fact considerably more people use Python than Mathematica. If 1000x as many people use Python than do Mathematica, than you might expect more people to find Python good for symbolics than you do Mathematica.
The results seem odd all around. The rest of it should go to /dev/null! Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
