[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Nateman]

Here's a link to SAGE .

[SunkenCiv]

I guess paper and pencil has really skyrocketed in price, eh? ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

here’s one about a professor who built a PS3-based supercomputer for practically no money (the PS3s were donated by Sony):

Sony Might Have Gotten It Right with the PS3 from the Beginning
Softpedia | November 5th, 2007 | Filip Truta
Posted on 11/25/2007 1:38:14 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930299/posts

[ShadowAce]

[SunkenCiv]

Math Advance Threatens Computer Security
DISCOVER | 12.28.2007 | Stephen Ornes
Posted on 01/05/2008 1:44:14 AM EST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1948634/posts

[avg_freeper]

There is also Octave which is an open source version of a matlab like software.

[snowsislander]

That's nice how it is able to wrap other powerful tools such as GP/Pari in what appears to be a clean fashion.

I am a bit dubious about using web-browsers as the main interface; in simply trying to play with the examples, I already had error messages relating to my specific browser.

[RightWhale]

VisiCalc did calculus or any other kind of mathematics involving calculations. Anybody can be Wolfram in the computer age.