I think/suspect Sage is more popular than Maxima if you go by all time download statistics.
I don't think it is as popular as Maple or Mathematica yet. I think the claim was that it is becoming the M$ of mathematical software. I suspect that means "default standard" or something. Actually, I didn't ask. Tim, what does it mean? Bill. On Aug 31, 1:12 am, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > I read this thread with some interest. I'm not sure anything new is > being said; just different > people saying it. Well, not all different. > > I am curious as to the claim that Sage is very popular. > Compared to? > > Maxima for Windows has seen something like 285,000 downloads. But > that includes people > who downloaded various versions. The most popular one had 80,600 > downloads; > the most recent release (8/13/2010) has had 7,500 in the last 17 days. > > Presumably some people use Maxima who don't download it from > sourceforge, where I found > this data. I suppose people who download Sage do not count in these > totals. > > I know that Sage does all kinds of other things, simulating Magma and > whatever. Is that > what you are comparing it to? > > Is there some statistical summary somewhere? > > As for whether this belongs on sage-flame or not.. I think this > discussion is totally mainstream, > but then, so are a number of discussions on sage-flame. > > RJF -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
