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		jhallenworld 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal tha... Try maxima, it's open source: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ I used it when it was called Macsyma running on TOPS-20 (and a PDP-10 / Decsystem-20). Text interface will require a little learning, but not much.

jgalt212 58 days ago [–]

Maxima is amazing and has a GUI. My only beef with it is it doesn't show its work step by step.

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