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  • = SAGE =

Introduction

"Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface."

"Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab."

Website: http://www.sagemath.org/

Installation Instructions

Look for the package named sagemath in the Synaptic Package Manager and install it. Ubuntu (as of 3-5-2009) will install Sagemath Version 3.0.5 while as of the same date the latest version offered by the Sagemath team is 3.4.1.

Alternatively open a terminal and type: 

sudo apt-get install sagemath

Getting Started With Sage

Open a terminal and type sage and press enter. The sage command line interface should start up. Wait for the sage prompt to come up. It would looks thus: 

sage:

This may take a while depending on your hardware.

The first time you use sage you will be asked to set a password to secure your work.

Choice of Sage Interface: Command Line Or GUI

You have a choice of using sage either from the command line or from a GUI. In order to use the GUI interface to sage use the sage prompt to type: 

notebook()

This will open the GUI interface to sage which is the well known Firefox web browser.

To start work with the GUI interface of sage click on the link New Worksheet.

The rest involves typing your sage commands into the input box and clicking the evaluate button that lies below it.

Help and Documentation

There you will find separate links for:

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