[sage-support] Re: Sym Py vs Maxima for symbolic computation

2015-05-07 Thread Douglas Davis
In my limited experience it is best to let Sage handle the symbolic computations explicitly. Then specify sympy ( algorithm='sympy') as a check on important solutions or when the default gives an error. When working on advanced problems it is always best to have a backup and a check on your

[sage-support] Re: Sym Py vs Maxima for symbolic computation

2015-04-29 Thread Ralf Stephan
The main problem facing Sympy may be performance, because they explicitly use Python for everything. It shows for example in https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/2635 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this gr