Sage: Symbolic Computation

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Sage: Symbolic Computation

Owen Densmore
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I've been following the sage package, and recently wanted to see how  
it was doing with symbolic mathematics.

It seems that it's doing well:
   http://www.sagemath.org/doc/ref/module-sage.calculus.calculus.html
It can integrate/differentiate and maintain the symbolic form:

sage: f = sin(x)/cos(2*y)
sage: f.derivative(y)
        2*sin(x)*sin(2*y)/cos(2*y)^2
sage: g = f.integral(x); g
        -cos(x)/cos(2*y)

I should be a bit more precise: it is not using Math Notation, but  
script notation.  But none the less, it appears to do a good job.

It also can output LaTeX expressions, not sure if it can input them  
however.

    -- Owen


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