Scilab And Maxima On Pandora?

[kaubin25]

I'm a big math/physics geek and one thing that jumped into my head, and ultimately tipped the scales in favor of buying a Pandora, was the possibility of using it as a great calculator by running SciLab and Maxima on it.

I used the TI-92 in grad school and loved it (still have it). TI hasn't really advanced much on that calculator and I always wanted more performance/specs/etc. out of the TI-92 (the Voyage isn't different enough for me to want one).

I know the Pandora is designed as a gaming platform and that's the primary reason I purchased one, but it would be a great bonus... I'm about 3000 on the list, BTW so I can't check it out yet. Will do when it arrives.

 

[bzar]

I remember there being a thread on math software a year ago or something. There were some pretty good looking and portable applications thrown around IIRC.

 

[dpoarch]

Both of those seem to have the source available. Im not sure how hard it would be but they can probably both be ported.

 

[marshal]

Never used those but it does seem quite nice. Could definitely be useful on the Pandora.
I guess R (http://www.r-project.org/) would be nice too. It's CLI only so it should be an easy port.

 

[CodeTwister]

If we drop the algebra stuff (so we talk about physics now) you could use scipy as well. It's very useful, provides a lot of functionality ... and i think its easier to write code the python way instead of the matlab one. -> "ipython -pylab"

 

[bce23w]

i think its easier to write code the python way instead of the matlab one. -> "ipython -pylab"

I'd agree with you, but all the people who already use matlab might disagree.

Then again, they'd be wrong, so who cares? Python 4 Lyfe, bro. B)

 

[cosurgi]

I remember there being a thread on math software a year ago or something. There were some pretty good looking and portable applications thrown around IIRC.

This one:

Mathematical Analysis Software - Pandora. differential equations, symbolic manipulations, algebra, etc

not too busy though

I learnt maxima during that time. And I plan to use it on pandora, a lot.

 

[Tempel]

Here's the old thread that B-ZaR mentioned (DON'T BUMP, it's old). Lots of options thrown around. Fake edit: cosurgi beat me to it.

If you're a diehard Matlab user, Octave is already in the Angstrom repos, so no porting necessary (Octave aims to be completely compatible with Matlab code).

Also, I agree with CodeTwister: SciPy is wonderful and I use it all the time. If you do need algebra features, you can get them from SymPy, which is also wonderful and I use all the time. But neither are in the Angstrom repo and I don't know how portable they are; I think SymPy is pure Python (so, trivial to port), but I could be wrong.