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authorBhavin Gandhi <bhavin192@geeksocket.in>2020-12-03 23:16:43 +0530
committerBhavin Gandhi <bhavin192@geeksocket.in>2020-12-03 23:17:46 +0530
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Talk 33: add answers from the talk
Also fixes the link to prerec video.
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@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Fermin MF
[[!template id=vid src="https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2020/emacsconf-2020--33-maxima-a-computer-algebra-system-in-emacs--fermin.webm"]]
[Download .webm video, 720p, 260MB](https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2020/emacsconf-2020--33-maxima-a-computer-algebra-system-in-emacs--fermin.webm)
-[[!template id=vid src="https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2020/emacsconf-2020--33-maxima-a-computer-algebra-system-in-emacs--fermin.webm"]]
-[Download prerec .webm video, 720p, 58M](https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2020/emacsconf-2020--33-maxima-a-computer-algebra-system-in-emacs--fermin.webm)
+[[!template id=vid src="https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2020/emacsconf-2020--33-maxima-a-computer-algebra-system-in-emacs--prerec--fermin.webm"]]
+[Download prerec .webm video, 720p, 58M](https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2020/emacsconf-2020--33-maxima-a-computer-algebra-system-in-emacs--prerec--fermin.webm)
Maxima is a great tool for symbolic mathematics, it has some support
for Emacs in the main repository, but is quite outdated and doesn't
@@ -17,33 +17,35 @@ how to start using maxima within Emacs.
<!-- from the pad --->
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# Questions
-
-## Q9 Is it is possible to include maxima in org files similar to jupyter notebooks? (Does ob-maxima have support for the :results graphics header argument of org-src blocks?)
-
+## Q9 Is it is possible to include Maxima in org files similar to jupyter notebooks? (Does ob-maxima have support for the :results graphics header argument of org-src blocks?)
+Yes it is, needs more work to be done on it.
## Q8 Are you planning to upstream your package into Maxima? (would be nice :)
-
+Don't know about that, can be bit messy. No problem with doing that
+though. Running tests might be tricky (CI).
## Q7 In which University do you start to use Maxima?
-
+University of Zaragoza -
+<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Zaragoza>
## Q6. Is there support for images in maxima-mode?
+Not as of now.
+## Q5: Is Maxima's syntax a strict infix Lisp syntax or are there exceptions and special cases? Yes I mean Maxima itself.
-## Q5: Is Maxima's syntax a strict infix lisp syntax or are there exceptions and special cases? Yes I mean Maxima itself.
-
-
-## Q4. Is maxima easy to get into in your opinion? (has its quirks though!, mailing list is usually helpful)
-
-
-## Q3: Do you plan to amend ob-maxima to support named session for maxima code blocks in org mode (e.g. begin\_src maxima :session **my-maxima**)? (the current implementation supports exactly onesession named **maxima**)
-
+## Q4. Is Maxima easy to get into in your opinion? (has its quirks though!, mailing list is usually helpful)
+Yes, it is.
-## Q2: how does maxima compare to sagemath in emacs? does maxima have more support because it is written in common lisp whereas sage math is written in python?
+## Q3: Do you plan to amend ob-maxima to support named session for Maxima code blocks in org mode (e.g. begin_src maxima :session **my-maxima**)? (the current implementation supports exactly onesession named **maxima**)
+Yes, want to improve it, will start with it soon.
+## Q2: How does Maxima compare to SageMath in Emacs? does Maxima have more support because it is written in common Lisp whereas SageMath is written in Python?
+Don't known what is SageMath.
-## Q1: So I am an avid octave user right now (had a matlab lesson in uni and so I knew the basics and it was easy to get into), what would you say are the advantages of Maxima over Octave as from my understanding they are pretty similar. I would be interested in trying it out but I am not sure if its worth it compared to Octave. (Octave is a matlab "clone", not meant for analytic calculations, more matrix multiplications etc.)
+## Q1: So I am an avid Octave user right now (had a MATLAB lesson in uni and so I knew the basics and it was easy to get into), what would you say are the advantages of Maxima over Octave as from my understanding they are pretty similar. I would be interested in trying it out but I am not sure if its worth it compared to Octave. (Octave is a MATLAB "clone", not meant for analytic calculations, more matrix multiplications etc.)
+Don't known Octave much. Found the Octave package hard to understand.
+# Notes
+<http://maxima.sourceforge.net/>