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by jordigh 3845 days ago
> Nothing wrong with that.

Much wrong with that. Mathematics should not proceed based on a secret sauce. In mathematics, the details of the computation are almost always far more interesting than the result. The details are the very raison d'ĂȘtre of the subject.

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>Mathematics should not proceed based on a secret sauce.

Thanks god Mathematica is not mathematics the science, then, but just a tool in assisting with doing math and physics and all kinds of calculations.

>*In mathematics, the details of the computation are almost always far more interesting than the result.

Yeah, just not in any case Mathematica, Maple, R, Matlab etc were involved.