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[Python or Matlab] What's better for scientific calculation?

Hi. Beginner here. I'm looking for numerical computation tool (Materials Science). What's better for a newbie programmer. Priorities- 1) Ease of learning. 2) Speed of computation (PDEs) 3) Other benefits Thanks and regards.

17th Feb 2019, 7:11 PM
aniruddha patil
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Python has many numerical and scientific oriented libraries that make it comparable to Matlab, so: 1) Python is easy to learn (but Matlab isn't that harder) 2) For the speed I don't know 3) For other benefits: - Python is free while Matlab costs a lot - Python has symbolic calculus libraries like sympy that allow you to obtain primitives and derivatives formulas, while Matlab is parametric (only allows you to calculate them in a certain point or in an interval) - BUT Matlab has simulink while Python, obviously, doesn't For other informations you can look here: https://www.python-course.eu/numerical_programming_with_python.php
18th Feb 2019, 7:24 AM
Federico Corradini
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I think Python is better than others for scientific calculation.
17th Feb 2019, 7:19 PM
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I forgot: the Python's library matplotlib allows you to plot graphs in XKCD style. 😀
18th Feb 2019, 4:28 PM
Federico Corradini
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Thank you all for your input. I appreciate it.
18th Feb 2019, 4:16 PM
aniruddha patil
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You can use both because Matlab and Python have the same structure. But Python is free and for Matlab you have to pay a license. I recommend Python. For the rapidity it's depend on the manner you do code. You can use the power of the vectorization and avoid loops.
25th Mar 2020, 7:28 PM
Elhadji Mama GUENE
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