What is YOUR favorite Computer Algebra Software?

[Schadenfroh]

I am fond of Maple, but SAGE's price is right!

 

[eLiu]

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!

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

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.

 

[Random Variable]

I use Maple, but I don't have a favorite one.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Where is MATLAB?

 

[esun]

MATLAB is not a CAS.

 

[imported_hscorpio]

The one that I can carry in my pocket.

:heart: TI-89

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: esun
MATLAB is not a CAS.

Whats MATLAB considered as?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Wow, maple by a landslide, I should expect no less

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: pray4mojo

Originally posted by: esun
MATLAB is not a CAS.

Whats MATLAB considered as?

A high level scientific language.

Edit: but the OP doesnt know about the symbolic toolbox and the fact that matlab runs Maple along with LAPACK, i take it.

 

[LordMorpheus]

I do lots of work with matlab. I'd like to get my hands on a copy of maple, but I don't have much experience with it.

 

[randumb]

Mathematica

 

[nakedfrog]

I haven't got one.

 

[Xylitol]

Mathematica (Most people dont seem to use it though)

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

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.

Dang it, knew I forgot something!
Meant to mention the symbolic toolbox of MATLAB. That and their RF toolbox rocks

 

[eLiu]

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.