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Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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> Students and hobbyists can use Symbolica for free. Once Symbolica is being used professionally, either in an academic context or in a commercial company, a license is required. The preferred license model for academic use is an institution-wide license.

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

#13
> a state-of-the-art commercial computer algebra system while being as open as possible

> Get a license key for offline use, generated from a licensed Symbolica session. The key will remain valid for 24 hours.

lmao

This is a really impressive project, but the practically always-on requirement - including an internet connection to go offline - is absolutely hilarious.

Also, the requirement for me to "get a quote" to get an idea of how much it'll cost me? I'm not going to even bother trying the free trial. I can tell you how much MatLab cost me for my personal projects - $149.

Now I'm not saying MatLab and this are an apples to apples comparison (not even close), but y'all are chopping yourselves off at the knees.

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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post #8

> 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.

Author of Symbolica here: this may change in the future. Note that it is easy to do this, you just call the function

    from symbolica import \*
    set_license_key('YOUR_KEY')
    print(get_offline_license_key())

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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> a state-of-the-art commercial computer algebra system while being as open as possible > Get a license key for offline use, generated from a licensed Symbolica session. The key will remain valid for 24 hours. lmao This is a really impressive project, but the practically always-on requirement - including an internet connection to go offline - is absolutely hilarious. Also, the requirement for me to "get a quote" to g…

Author of Symbolica here: for your personal projects the cost is 0, as you'd be a hobbyist.

Symbolica is developed by only one person, so forgive me if I can't get every aspect of the project right on the first try (especially the non-technical part) :) I will see about removing the online on start-up part. It's essentially the only anti-piracy step that I have.

At the moment there is no fixed cost for use in industry, since the price will vary based on the amount of users and other factors.

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

#17

There is a missing variable declaration in the Colab playground. y = Expression.var('y') e = 1/(x*y+1) e = e.derivative(x) md(e.to_latex()) I suppose, the first line should be: x, y = Expression.var('x', 'y')

Thanks, fixed it! It should be

    x, y = Expression.vars('x', 'y')

indeed

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

#18

This only seems to focus on polynomial equations. If so it is a bit of a strech to call it a CAS

It has pattern matching, Groebner basis computations, expression simplification, series expansion, numerical integration, etc.

Deep down every CAS is about manipulating polynomials :)

Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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post #8

> 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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Re: Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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post #11

> Students and hobbyists can use Symbolica for free. Once Symbolica is being used professionally, either in an academic context or in a commercial company, a license is required. The preferred license model for academic use is an institution-wide license.

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