If you're taking math or science courses, you'll most likely only be allowed to use a handheld calculator on exams. When you're on your own, you're better off using something like Python.

Learn how to use Python’s optional type-hinting syntax to create cleaner and more useful code.

Interpreting math expressions is one of those things that seems simple until you get into it. The first problem is correctly lexing the input — a term that means splitting into tokens.

Using NumPy for array and matrix math in Python Many mathematical operations, especially in machine learning or data science, involve working with matrixes, or lists of numbers.