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    Scientific calculators are an amazing invention that take pocket calculators from being merely basic arithmetic machines to being pocket computers that can handle everything from statistics to algebra.

    I use the FOSS maxima on Linux and Android.

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        The version on F-Droid works on my system.

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        Looks like the F-Droid project hasn’t seen a new Android build in a decade, and Maxima has seen updates, but…I mean, it’s a pretty mature program. I have a newer version on desktop, but all the stuff I use was added in the first couple decades or so of its life.

        EDIT: The git repo is here:

        https://github.com/YasuakiHonda/Maxima-on-Android-AS

        So I expect that if someone wanted to do builds of newer versions, they could.

        But for perspective, the calculator that the article is talking about that the author liked is also a decade-old calculator.