Robert Dodier wrote: > Cameron Laird wrote: > >> Should combinatorics be part of the standard library? That's >> an aesthetic-pragmatic question I don't feel competent to >> answer; I look to timbot and Guido and so on for judgment there. >> It does occur to me, though, that even more widely applicable >> than the combinatorics module of Mathematica (if only because of >> its licensing) might be such resources as > [...] > > Well, since Mathematica has been mentioned, I'll go ahead and > mention Maxima as well. Maxima is an open source (GPL) symbolic > computation system, which includes some functions for > combinatorics, among many other things. The relevant code is: > http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/maxima/maxima/src/nset.lisp > (Oh, btw Maxima is written in Lisp.) The relevant documentation: > http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_37.html > > Sage can presumably access Maxima's combinatoric functions > (since Sage bundles Maxima along with other programs). > I don't know if there are combinatoric functions from other > packages in Sage.
There is a native combinatorics module in Sage. See: http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/ref/node181.html Sage: http://www.sagemath.org/ Jaap > > FWIW > > Robert Dodier -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
