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cies • yesterday at 12:52 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

This looks like an open source alternative to Mathematica/MathLab/Maple running in the browser.

Please correct me if I'm off...

As there's no project description that I quickly found, I came to this conclusion myself.

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radiator • yesterday at 1:20 PM

Wikipedia writes: Maxima is based on a 1982 version of Macsyma

Perhaps because it has such a long history and because this was published in a Lisp website, Maxima was considered known.

phkahler • yesterday at 2:58 PM

>> This looks like an open source alternative to Mathematica/MathLab/Maple running in the browser.

Yes. If you're on Linux try out wxMaxima as a local app. I'm not sure how to get the Windows version of wxMaxima since you end up in some weird sourceforge hell trying to get an installer.