The Arithmetic Game Reviews

Maxima Reviews

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   over 4 years ago
   Stable (slow but steady growth)

   I've been using Maxima since my undergraduate (over 10 years), now with Ubuntu20.04 lts, I become a newbie of SageMath. For a small project (both symbolical and numerical), in particular, student lab activities, Maxima has been a powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing data. (The Android version is also fantastic, but the poor keyboard.)

   Mathematica is always enemy/friend. (My coworkers are all Mathematica speakers.)

   🏁 Competitors: Wolfram Mathematica

   👍 Pros:    Easy for cli user|Lithghter

   👎 Cons:    Good for advanced users of computers (cli is sometimes hard for newbie)|Hard to find official references, tutors, etc

The Arithmetic Game mentions (19)

• Why Do We Still Teach People to Calculate?

  As someone with reasonably good mental math skills (120+ score consistently on https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/, default settings), I cannot really say it helps me much in the real life, at least not on the surface. It sure is nice to be able to estimate some things accurately without having to resort to a calculator, but in no way would anything change in the way I think or conclusions I make if I had to use one,... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Show HN: Mobile-Friendly Arithmetic Trainer

  ~20 years ago, HN user sophiebits made a nice arithmetic trainer: https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/ (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1728309 The features I plan to add to make it 'complete':. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• I'm an adult and can't do subtraction, multiplication, or division on paper

  You should also find an online arithmetic drill site and set it up to give you 1-digit addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems. You don't have to memorize all the 1-digit number facts (I didn't until I was in college) but boy howdy will it speed you up. You should drill until you can do about 30 in two minutes. I recommend arithmetic.zetamac.com ; you should select addition and multiplication only,... Source: over 1 year ago

• Non Written Arithmetic Games

  I've spent time improving my written arithmetic with games like https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/. Speed drills. I still struggle with arithmetic that is prompted without being written down. I.e. If someone said "43+12" I would find this hard whereas doing this on a written online speed drill is fine. Does anyone have any resources that would say outloud basic arithmetic questions and I can then input the answers? Source: almost 2 years ago

• Anyone know how to recover/work on your memory?

  I quite like this for helping cognition but weirdly I can still be good at it but have awful memory at the same time. It's quite addictive just press start. Https://arithmetic.zetamac.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

Maxima mentions (27)

• Integral Calculator

  I think the really neat piece of software behind this is maxima (https://maxima.sourceforge.io/), a rather influential computer algebra system of ancient lineage still in use today in more place than you might think. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas

  In the maxima computer algebra system[1] which was ancestrally based on lisp it has a single quote operator[2] which delays evaluation of something and a "double quote" (which acually two single quotes rather than an actual double quote) operator[3] which asks maxima to evaluate some expression immediately rather than leaving it in symbolic form.[4] [1] https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ [2]... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• True or False

  Use wxmaxima, a free and open-source computer algebra system:. Source: over 1 year ago

• C++ library for solving EQUATIONS

  There are several options, here is one of them: https://maxima.sourceforge.io. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Do you know computer algebra software capable of managing systems of multiple equations with multiple unknowns and multiple variables?

  You may use maxima cas (https://maxima.sourceforge.io/) to solve symbolic complex problems. Source: about 2 years ago