Scientific calculators were invaluable to most of us through high school and college, freeing us from the yoke of using tables to calculate logarithms and trigonometric functions. Once out in the r… ...

Scientific calculators were invaluable to most of us through high school and college, freeing us from the yoke of using tables to calculate logarithms and trigonometric functions.

It's why Python is becoming a language of choice for scientific computing and one more reason to learn the language. A good example is SymPy, a computer algebra system.

Anything that overpriced, underpowered graphing calculator can do, Python can do better.

ActiveState this week added open source packages for financial and scientific computing to its ActivePython distribution of the Python programming language. The move is being made as a result of ...