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What is YOUR favorite Computer Algebra Software?

Maple 🙂

I've been using it since HS though... and I've never tried the other options, so it is definitely a biased opinion. That said, Maple rocks!
 
I like Maple, but it seems to choke on complex symbolic calculations occasionally for no good reason. I still think the classic worksheets are better than this newfangled presentation they've got.
 
Originally posted by: homercles337
Edit: but the OP doesnt know about the symbolic toolbox and the fact that matlab runs Maple along with LAPACK, i take it.
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Dang it, knew I forgot something! 😛
Meant to mention the symbolic toolbox of MATLAB. That and their RF toolbox rocks 😀
 
Eh? MATLAB's symbolic toolbox is just the textmode from Maple... which is pretty neat if you want to watch something do ascii drawings of various math symbols, lol.

And LAPACK has absolutely nothing to do with CAS. It's an open source numeric linear algebra package (in FORTRAN no less)--for general applications, it is the standard numeric linalg package. Most of MATLAB's linalg functions are just wrappers for LAPACK calls--i.e. MATLAB decides which LAPACK function is needed (is the matrix real? symmetric? banded? etc) and makes the appropriate call for you. Though, MATLAB doesn't support all of LAPACK's functionality.
 
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