Re: sagemath 3.0.5 now in sid

[giuliano curti <giulianc@tiscali.it>]

On 12 Feb 2009 12:30:26 +0000
Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Hey all,
 
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> Great.
> 
> Should I add it to the Numerical Computation task:
> 
> http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/numericalcomputation.html
> 
> This collects software like Matlab/IDL (and indeed includes octave and
> gnudatalanguage clones of them.

There was not Maxima: why?
 
> I ask because it is the symbolic capabilities of sage that seem to be
> highlighted in the documentation. Perhaps we should add a symbolic
> maths metapackage too.

Don't You think that the symbolic capabilities (Maxima, Sarge?)
are different from numerical capabilities (scilab, yorick,
octave) ?
   
> Chris

ciao,
giuliano