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IPython
IPython is an enhanced interactive shell with various features to support rapid interactive computing.
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Fedora Scientific currently ships with numerous applications and libraries. These range from libraries such as the GNU Scientific library, the SciPy libraries, tools like Octave and xfig to typesetting tools like Kile and graphics programs such as Inkscape. The current set of packages include an IDE, tools and libraries for programming in C, C++, Python, Java and R. Also included along with are libraries for parallel computing such as the OpenMPI and OpenMP. Tools for typesetting, writing and publishing are included.
IPython is an enhanced interactive shell with various features to support rapid interactive computing.
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Gnuplot is a command line driven utility for creating 2D and 3D graphs.
Matplotlib is the most feature-rich Python library for creating publication ready graphs and figures.
R is a software environment for statistical computing.
Maxima is a computer algebra system.
Fedora Scientific includes the complete toolchain needed for creating documents using LaTeX.
GNU Octave is a high level programming language and numerical computing environment, mostly compatible with MATLAB.
The GNU Scientific Library is a C/C++ library providing a extensive collection of mathematical routines.
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