SymPy Open Source Development

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In this episode of Open Source Directions, we were joined by Aaron Meurer who will talk once again with Oscar Benjamin about the work he has been doing with SymPy. SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics. It aims to become a full-featured computer algebra system (CAS) while keeping the code as simple as possible in order to be comprehensible and easily extensible. SymPy is written entirely in Python.

Licensed under BSD, SymPy is free both as in speech and as in beer. SymPy only depends on mpmath, a pure Python library for arbitrary floating point arithmetic, making it easy to use. As a library, beyond use as an interactive tool, SymPy can be embedded in other applications and extended with custom functions.

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