List of built in functions?

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barebones

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Oct 18, 2007, 11:17:38 PM10/18/07
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Hello everyone,
I installed symbide today (on Windows XP, by the way) an I really like
it so far. I've been looking for some FLOSS CAS system to replace
mathematica and this looks like it's on it's way to being exactly what
I want. It would be nice to have a list of what built in functions
work in symbide, however. Is there one somewhere, or can it be assumed
that all functions that work with sympy work with symbide?

Peter "barebones" Garceau

basti

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Oct 19, 2007, 9:20:00 AM10/19/07
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Hi Peter,

I'm happy to hear of someone who tries out Symbide and nearly
overwhelmed by the fact that you see Symbide as a replacement for
Mathematica.

But be aware that Sympy is by far not as powerfull as Mathematica and
Symbide is by far not as sophisticated as Mathematicas notebook.
If you work with Sympy/Symbide you will very likely find bugs and also
very likely come to calculations where you'll miss some of
Mathematicas functionalities.
You are warned...

But now to your question:
Sympies functions are effectively imported with "from sympy import *",
therefor all in this namespace defined classes, functions and
constants should work in Symbide.
However, there exist some additional functions like "show", "clear",
"mprint" and there also are functions that behave slightly different
(in the moment only plot).

If you find functions that work on command line but not in Symbide,
please tell me about them. I would also be glad for any other feedback
like things you don't like in Symbide or if you have some ideas to
improve Symbide.

basti

barebones

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Oct 19, 2007, 10:08:15 AM10/19/07
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Thanks for the heads up on which functions I can use.

I realize that It's not as powerful as mathematica, but for what I
want to do at home on my desktop (calculus and plotting mainly) it
works pretty well as a replacement. Mainly it's the notebook style
interface that I've been looking for, and the fact that it's pure
python adds icing to the cake. Keep up the good work

Peter

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