On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 14:07, Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Having begun life as a mathematician (BA 1961), I still sometimes > play with numbers, whether or not I'm near a computer. I mostly start by > factoring them, so that I know what I've got. But I get lost juggling > more than about two or three three-digit numbers. > > It would be nice to have a factoring applet -- which wouldn't > need to be vast nor intense enough to come anywhere near cryptographic > use, but just as a mildly entertaining time waster. > > My guess is that it exists, and is either already in Fedora, or > can be handily installed. Anybody know? > I'd suggest one of the general-purpose packages like sympy (symbolic manipulation with Python), macsyma, sagemath, or octave (matlab "clone"). You may find other interesting ways to spend time with any of these. -- George N. White III
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