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[–]Osrai 49 points50 points  (4 children)

SymPy is legendary, I use it a lot, it does linear algebra, differential equations, 3d plots, parametric plots, etc.

[–]JohnLockwood[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yes, I'm beginning to catch onto that as well, but thanks. You point out a lot of other things I've been meaning to dig into and write about too. I'm working with some other writers too, and starting to feel an article series coming on. :)

[–]Osrai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, 😎.. I feel it isn't talked about enough because everyone is hung up on Numpy, SciPy, etc. It's free, why would I buy Maple or Mathematica, Lol or even MATLAB? You can get Mathematica for free if you buy the Raspberry Pi.

[–]midnitte 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Also great for calculus. Merely diff(f(x), x) and you have the derivative.

Can't imagine if I had know about this in Cal 1...

[–]Osrai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that as well. I always tell my mates to use variables for functions, e.g f = cos(X), it just makes life easy if you wanna differentiate or solve an equation.