It's a common joke that Python makes a great calculator in its interactive mode. You can make it an even better one with the built-in math module, which contains a lot of the same math functions you ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work with ...

Part of the power of a computing environment lies in the ability to store, manipulate, and recall information. This is done using variables and statements. Here we create a variable a, and assign to ...