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Re[2]: Mathematica clone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kabir@zenarchist.dharmakaya.org)
Thu Oct 15 19:21:48 1998
From: kabir@zenarchist.dharmakaya.org
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:25:59 +0000 (UTC)
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strider <strider@acm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:19:55 -0400, Cimarron Ryan <cryan@wesleyan.edu> wrote:
> >
> > (Resending because I was unsubscribed AGAIN.)
> >
> > Are any of you running a free version of any software package
> > approaching the abilities of Mathematica? Can you suggest a few?
> >
>
> Greetings.
>
> I don't think any of the open source progs for Linux have enough muscle to be said to be "approachintg the abilities of Mathematica", but there are a number of variations on the MatLab theme (one of which has a Mac-like interface: SciLab), and Pari can do some potent number-theoretic computations. Euler also has a GUI, but has less available modules and functionality than the MatLab clones.
>
> Actually, this might be one area for GTK/Qt collaborators to consider. I know that since I graduated with my BS.CS, I've been working on an insurance system, and my brain is growing quite soft and flabby.... ;-)
>
> Have fun.
>
> Jeff
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How about Yorkick ?
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