Is SciPy killing the Wolfram star?

[Paul Dale]

For working on high accuracy mathematics algorithms, mathematica has proven essential. Wolfram Alpha usually nearly always sufficient. Alpha is also great for simplification of formula (I'm sure I could have done this by hand when I was back in under and post graduate but I've forgotten way too much and the computer doesn't make careless errors).

A purely numeric package isn't going to be as useful -- modern calculator designs are working beyond the standard numeric precisions (43S, Free42, newRPL).


Pauli