Hi Christopher,

I'm interested in this stuff too, but I couldn't find the original
message you're
replying to. Do you have a link somewhere?

Roeland

Christopher Smith wrote:
>  
>  Shelley Walsh <Shelley@[...].uk> wrote:
>  | I am a mathematics instructor and lately I have been learning Python
>  | partly out of fascination with its potential for helping to explain
>  | algebra. Yesterday I downloaded a symbol manipulation program called
>  | Pythonica and got to thinking that there ought to be an easier way to
>  <cut>
>  
>  I read the whole post and am interested in this sort of thing as
>  well but don't have time to respond much now.  Just wanted to note
>  that I, too, just found Pythonica in my search for a symbolic
>  manipulation program and found a bit of a parsing bug.
>  
>  When given 2*3+2^2/3 Pythonica returns:
>  
>          in FullForm: Divide[Plus[Times[2,3],Power[2,2]],3]
>          evaluates to: 3.33333333333
>  
>  but it should probably be something like:
>  
>          Plus[Times[2,3],Divide[Power[2,2],3]]
>  
>  and evaluate to 7.33333333333
>  
>  /c
>  
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