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Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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What’s the use case overlap between symbolic and huge? I might expect that with most huge expressions (they talk about disk space being the limit, not memory) you’d be satisfied with a numerical approximation. Does someone need to simplify a huge expression down to a small symbolic expression?

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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Can confirm, it is fast. I've been struggling with a plane equation for a plane based on isotropic segments. 3 segments, 3 complex points - only 6 equations. Almost every CAS can solve the system per se fast, it's the simplification process that costs time.

On my machine, I managed to get a ~300KB long solution from SymPy in under a minute, and a comparable solution from Maxima in a few seconds. Symbolica found a ~84K long solution in about a second... in Colab. That's impressive.

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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post #2

What’s the use case overlap between symbolic and huge? I might expect that with most huge expressions (they talk about disk space being the limit, not memory) you’d be satisfied with a numerical approximation. Does someone need to simplify a huge expression down to a small symbolic expression?

The most obvious use case is to see that the expression does not simplify well and is inherently huge :-)

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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> Sometimes a Symbolica license key is needed on a machine that is not connected to the internet. For this purpose, an offline key that is valid for 24 hours can be generated from a valid license key on a machine that is connected to the internet.

Even Mathematica doesn't pull shit like that.

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