computer algebra systems
rallain | July 13, 2010The other day I found myself faced with six equations that needed to be solved algebraically. Just so you know, I am a big fan of paper for most of these cases - but this was out of control. I was making silly mistakes and causing all sorts of problems. What to do? My first though was to use some symbolic plugins for python. I tried sympy and it is nice. However, it was not giving correct solutions for solving 3 equations - I don't know if this is a bug or what.
Maxima
I think I found Maxima through Wikipedia's Computer algebra system page. It's free and free and runs on Mac OS X and…