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I'm an engineering student an I can say with property that, although I don't know much about Sage, a good symbolic math project (in particular Open Source) is sorely needed. It would be far from a curiosity. Most students use Matlab/Octave where I study, and all it does is allow for numeric computation. We've had huge advances in computing and it's been long since numerical integration was our best aid! More math hea…
Check out SymPy: >>> x, a, b, c = symbols('x a b c') >>> solve(a*x**2+b*x+c, x) # solve(expr_eqal_to_zero, var) [ (-b + sqrt(-4*a*c + b**2))/(2*a), (-b - sqrt(-4*a*c + b**2))/(2*a) ] More info: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...
I will, thank you vm :)