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by creata 2021 days ago
> SymPy is pretty niche

I don't know; I use isympy (interactive sympy, uses IPython if installed) as a local Wolfram Alpha for all my math problems, and it's really good at that.

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> as a local Wolfram Alpha

It’s called Mathematica, son.

Maybe like me, they grew up in a country where mathematics itself is pronounced "mathematica" (which is a huge fraction of languages [0]), leading to avoiding that name for the software.

[0] https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/mathematics

Aren't there some things that WA can do that mathematica can't? like step-by-step explanations of how to do an integral