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Apart from programmatic UX, I'm unsure what the use-case or competitive advantages. Perhaps it could use a comparison matrix along with well-known CAS systems, i.e., Giac (Erable's successor), Mathematica, and Maple. Mathematica and Maple are among the powerful CASes. See also: [0]. *

I used HP 48 (Erable) extensively in college for physics, math, chemistry, and electrical engineering courses. It could simplify systems of equations, symbolically integrate, and solve ordinary and partial diff eqs. Not quite Mathematica or Maple, but Erable was portable before laptops or smartphones were widely available.

If you want to push a CAS, try deriving a general time-dependent for the Schrödinger wave equation (PDF) for hydrogen (1s1). ;)

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_algebra_syste...

* Wikipedia is wrong. Erable is included in 48G/GX by default, but it might've been an add-on for 48S/SX.



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