Sunday, October 12, 2008

The blessings of a CAS

Although I hardly use a computer in my daily math routine, I'm sometimes more than glad they exist. Today, I saved approximately 2 hours of painful calculations by using the excellent CAS sage to factor some polynomials over finite fields and solve some systems of linear equations, instead of doing it by hand.

Poor 19th-century number theorists!

PS: sage is free! try it!

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