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How does Maxima compare to something like Xcas[1]? [1]: https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html
Giac/Xcas is slightly worse at symbolic integration than Maxima, and both are dramatically worse than Mathematica.
FriCAS, an Axiom fork, is the best open source CAS on those benchmarks.
How does it compare to SymPy?
https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports...
I like maxima and used to use it (through the interface wxmaxima or KDE Cantor) for solving my physics problem. I am no expert in CAS, just use them for simple problem solving. However, since I stumbled upon this blog post by Thingwy https://thingwy.blogspot.com/2015/07/maxima-versus-mathemati... , I find myself uneasy when using maxima. I quote Thingwy: “Maxima gets elementary math wrong, it knows very little about…
Checked the examples and Maxima still fails. It's even more disheartening that author mentions towards the end that had reported those issues years before they wrote the article. I had also used Maxima before and, though unsurprisingly found it less polished than Mathematica, got the job done without issues. But will probably refrain from recommending it. Would also like to see how other systems tackle those examples…
;;; Loading #P"/usr/lib/ecl-21.2.1/sb-bsd-sockets.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/usr/lib/ecl-21.2.1/sockets.fas"
Maxima 5.46.0 https://maxima.sourceforge.io
using Lisp ECL 21.2.1
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) declare(a,real);
(%o1) done
(%i2) declare(b,real);
(%o2) done
(%i3) assume(a>b,b>0);
(%o3) [a > b, b > 0]
(%i4) limit(log(b-a+%i*eta),eta,0,plus);
(%o4) log(a - b) + %i %pi
(%i5) limit(log(b-a+%i*eta),eta,0,minus);
(%o5) log(a - b) - %i %piI like maxima and used to use it (through the interface wxmaxima or KDE Cantor) for solving my physics problem. I am no expert in CAS, just use them for simple problem solving. However, since I stumbled upon this blog post by Thingwy https://thingwy.blogspot.com/2015/07/maxima-versus-mathemati... , I find myself uneasy when using maxima. I quote Thingwy: “Maxima gets elementary math wrong, it knows very little about…
I’m a bit suspicious of the section saying “Maxima is slow” blaming linked lists. Maxima is built on Common Lisp which definitely has arrays and vectors, so the claims made there seem a bit uninformed. I don’t really know enough math to judge the rest, though.
I like maxima and used to use it (through the interface wxmaxima or KDE Cantor) for solving my physics problem. I am no expert in CAS, just use them for simple problem solving. However, since I stumbled upon this blog post by Thingwy https://thingwy.blogspot.com/2015/07/maxima-versus-mathemati... , I find myself uneasy when using maxima. I quote Thingwy: “Maxima gets elementary math wrong, it knows very little about…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Checked the examples and Maxima still fails. It's even more disheartening that author mentions towards the end that had reported those issues years before they wrote the article. I had also used Maxima before and, though unsurprisingly found it less polished than Mathematica, got the job done without issues. But will probably refrain from recommending it. Would also like to see how other systems tackle those examples…
I checked the failing limt one and it worked fine. Maybe it was fixed recently? ;;; Loading #P"/usr/lib/ecl-21.2.1/sb-bsd-sockets.fas" ;;; Loading #P"/usr/lib/ecl-21.2.1/sockets.fas" Maxima 5.46.0 https://maxima.sourceforge.io using Lisp ECL 21.2.1 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.…
Maxima enabled me to make my color space [HSLuv]( https://www.hsluv.org/ ). I encoded CIELUV RGB transformation functions into Maxima, ran `solve` and converted the output back into code. It's great to be able to commit [Maxima code]( https://github.com/hsluv/hsluv/tree/master/math ) into your repository and not leave the math as an "exercise to the reader".
I like maxima and used to use it (through the interface wxmaxima or KDE Cantor) for solving my physics problem. I am no expert in CAS, just use them for simple problem solving. However, since I stumbled upon this blog post by Thingwy https://thingwy.blogspot.com/2015/07/maxima-versus-mathemati... , I find myself uneasy when using maxima. I quote Thingwy: “Maxima gets elementary math wrong, it knows very little about…
I’m a bit suspicious of the section saying “Maxima is slow” blaming linked lists. Maxima is built on Common Lisp which definitely has arrays and vectors, so the claims made there seem a bit uninformed. I don’t really know enough math to judge the rest, though.
Anectote time: I used Mathematica many years ago. One surprising thing was that when you update the content of a vector, Mathematica creates a new vector and copies the content of the old vector. If you just copy an algorithm from C to Mathematica, it may be N times slower because it's creating a lot of intermediate vectors. So you must rewrite your code using "fold", or something like that. It was a long time ago, so I'm not sure if they have already added some trick to optimize code from people like me that don't know what they are doing. If Mathematica or Maxima has this trick but the other doesn't, it may cause a huge difference of time between algorithm that look very similar. Anyway, this is totally unrelated to lists.
I like maxima and used to use it (through the interface wxmaxima or KDE Cantor) for solving my physics problem. I am no expert in CAS, just use them for simple problem solving. However, since I stumbled upon this blog post by Thingwy https://thingwy.blogspot.com/2015/07/maxima-versus-mathemati... , I find myself uneasy when using maxima. I quote Thingwy: “Maxima gets elementary math wrong, it knows very little about…
Checked the examples and Maxima still fails. It's even more disheartening that author mentions towards the end that had reported those issues years before they wrote the article. I had also used Maxima before and, though unsurprisingly found it less polished than Mathematica, got the job done without issues. But will probably refrain from recommending it. Would also like to see how other systems tackle those examples…