# Mathics

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This article contains information about the installation, configuration and use of Mathics.
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Mathics is a free CAS (Computer Algebra System) for symbolic mathematical computations that uses Python as its main language. It aims at achieving a Mathematica-compatible syntax and functions. It relies mostly on Sympy for most mathematical tasks and, optionally, Sage for more advanced stuff.

## Installation

Mathics can be installed with the package mathics, available in AUR.

## Using Mathics

Mathics can be used through a CLI or a web interface

### Mathics CLI

Just execute from a command line:

    $ mathics

### Mathics web interface

Before you run mathics web interface you must execute in the command line the following (as the user who will execute mathics):

    $ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mathics_initialize.py

Then execute from the command line:

    $ mathicsserver

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