[osol-discuss] Anyone interested in maths or science as a hobby? (Math

[Lurie]

> Right.  Googling a bit also found "Octave", and maybe
> others. I couldn't begin to comment on how the various free
> vs commercial products compare, or for what purposes.

Yeah. although Octave (which I have installed as well) is an alternative
to MATLAB which deals mostly with numerical calculations, and Octave
lacks any symbolic computations support which are the spotlights of 
Mathematica and MAXIMA.
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