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Free Software brings affordability, transparency to mathematics
f0dder:
I just think it's lame++ that it runs inside a browser >_<
Lashiec:
You run it within a browser, and inside VMware? Weird...
And how does it compare to Octave? (Yeah, there were OSS mathematical software before Sage...)
urlwolf:
octave = OSS matlab
sage = OSS mathmatica
IMO.
Shops who need both may save a huge chunk of money.
In practice, I think there's so much matlab/mathematica code out there that using anything else comes with a huge 'antisocial cost'. I'm feeling that with R (www.r-project.org). by the way, that's another outstanding piece of software that completely made the paid version (S+; mucho $$$) completely obsolete and the statistics community has completely moved to R!
urlwolf:
You can use code from different languages inside Sage!
http://sagemath.org/screen_shots/.html/use_most_mathematics_software_from_within_sage.html
Lashiec:
Ah, since I never worked with Mathematica, I can't comment :)
Yeah, R is a pretty good pack, despite being ugly at first, and it's truly replacing commercial alternatives. Just experienced that this year at college, they didn't have enough money for SPSS licenses, so they moved to R.
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