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Excerpt: One of the tools that I have used since version 2 is Mathematica. I even have a Mathematica t-shirt. If you haven’t heard of it before, it is software for doing mathematics, hence the name. But this is so much more than a jumped up calculator. Among the features it sports are: Visualisation – draw graphs and plots Symbolic mathematics – algebra, integration, differentiation Functional programming Arbitrary numerical precision in calculations. It uses a notebook format to express results so the mathematics can be performed from the output of another. However you can also use it like a programming language to define functions and routines….