[MLUG] Sage (was: Reminder - MLUG Meeting March 6th 7PM)

[Franco Saliola]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:01 PM,  <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>  Franco wrote:
>  >  Regarding speakers: I recently (Friday) gave a talk about a free,
>  >  open-source mathematics software package called Sage. It's pretty
>  >   interesting stuff, and it's based on Python. I'd be willing to give
>  >  this talk at an mlug meeting if people are interested. (See
>  >  www.sagemath.org for more information about Sage.)
>
>  It's not clear to me whether it is a package, or a bunch of mostly
>  independent programs.  Could you enlighten me?

It is both, plus a little more! It is both a distribution of
mathematics software (so it includes a lot of independent programs
that can be used on their own) and also an interface to all of these
programs (so that you can use each of them from within Sage). it is
also more because it also includes a lot of new code and functionality
that the individual programs don't provide on their own.

Hope that helps.
Franco

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