suckless calculators: bc, hoc On 11/20/09, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the end, it depends on what you want to do with your CAS. If you > want something very precise, there is good specialised software around > (Pari was already mentioned for number theory, GAP is the way to go > for group theory, Macaulay2 for algebraic geometry, Singular for > commutative algebra, mpmath for special functions, R for statistics, > etc.)
+1 for pari/gp and gap system R and octave are for numerical calculations (float64) so i would not call them cas they tend to use lots of other libs optimization: lpsolve, glpk, cvxopt, sedumi computational geometry: qhull, cgal ..