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Math on Linux ?

#1 Post by NarriT4010 »

Hey, I wanted to practice math from the education I got but now it would make the most sense and use the keyboard to do so I think.
Are there ways to write out math on a pc of which one is the status quo or is there only one way that works to write an equasion in a way a programm can use it?
Is there a programm for Linux that guides by exercises, writing operations in the right form to make them usable in a math programm and teaches math for people who want to get into it ?

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#2 Post by canci »

I'm not into maths, but would R be something worth trying?

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I'm not that excited to do math but just want to know how long it actually takes to finish my old final tests by learning from the internet.
To do the old excercises on pc is kinda hard alot of new buttons and that kinda thing.
Is there a good place to learn that ? I bought a online teacher once it was a waste of money and a scam.

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Right now I'm reading through this website for Algebra, it's well structured and starts with the basics, and makes it easy to get back into that.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/index.html

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I used maxima during my engineering studies, For simpler cases bc is my main tool.

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#6 Post by arzgi »

Maybe rephrase the header. Khan academy has also math courses, https://www.khanacademy.org, you can download also to your phone.

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Different software has different ways of writing equations, the ones I know of for linux are R, sage, maxima and scilab.
Libreoffice has a simple tool to write equations, though nowhere near as complete as TeX, bear in mind these two are just for writing, not solving or calculating.

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Okay I will pick out a software that feels good to handle and get used to it. I'd like to save the exercises after solving them, use the software to help me when I'm stuck by experimenting with it and maybe visualise some of thair geometry now and then for understanding. It would be nice if the software was fun and somewhat good looking with some effects and what not.

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#9 Post by canci »

R can do all that, but it's command line, so there are no looks as such :D
But it can produce good looking PDFs or websites through R Markdown.
But it might be a steep learning curve for at least a while.

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https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/gallery.html
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Maybe spreadsheet would have the lowest learning curve. gnumeric and libreoffice-calc are in the repos. Both have quite decent set of math functions.

Easy to do graphs too.

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#11 Post by LE_746F6D617A7A69 »

R is probably all that You want - it's a complete math/coding environment.
The best IDE for R on Linux is RKward.

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Thanks for the link, when I needed the online teacher I subscribed in 11th grade and had to pay 300€ for a bad website. I trust this website is better but for what I need it will be best to learn how the programm can solve and visualize simple equations.

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#13 Post by NarriT4010 »

Rstudio and Maxima are the packages that are installed for now to get started. Maybe people make their tutorials avalable in rstudio, there are some from the list that is on the tutorials front page maybe there are even tutorials created to use R as a education software for simple math ...
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#14 Post by NarriT4010 »

Can many people who programm use the computer language "S" mentioned in the help section ?

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NarriT4010 wrote: 2022-06-28 21:17 Can many people who programm use the computer language "S" mentioned in the help section ?
Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_%28prog ... anguage%29
The modern implementation of S is R
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