23 Dec
2009
23 Dec
'09
3:48 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <dagss@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
OK. As a digression, I think it is easy to get the wrong impression of Sage that it is for "symbolics" vs. "computations". The reality is that the symbolics has been one of the *weaker* aspects of Sage (though steadily improving) -- the strong aspect is computations, but with elements that NumPy doesn't handle efficiently: Arbitrary size integer and rationals, polynomials (or vectors of their coefficients if you wish -- just numbers, not symbols), and so on.
So the Sage design is very much about computation, it is just that the standard floating point hasn't got all that much attention.
Good to know, Dag, thanks for the "digression." :-) DG