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On the Mac desktop, I still use a creaky ancient app called MathPad.

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwidholm/MathPad/

Really served me well in college. I've heard it referred to as a "Poor Man's Mathematica" back in its day. If Soulver worked more like this, I would have bought it by now.

That said, I've found that using my iPod touch as a "real world calculator" is much more convenient, and I ended up buying PCalc for it.

http://www.pcalc.com/iphone/index.html

Being able to tap calculations while walking and pacing the room brainstorming tended to be more useful than being forced to sit down and type at a keyboard.



Tried FreeMat yet? It's effectively the "Open Source's Mathematica". I've used it for a couple classes, it handles just about everything.

http://freemat.sourceforge.net/


Hmmm... looks a little heavyweight, but promising. Thanks for the tip off!


My professor recommended maxima as an alternative to mathematica.




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