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Cadabra vs GAP

A side-by-side look at Cadabra and GAP. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Cadabra

Cadabra

Science & Math

Cadabra is an open-source computer algebra system designed specifically for advanced theoretical physics computations involving tensor polynomial simplifications. It has a modern codebase focused on flexibility, extensibility and understandability.

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GAP

GAP

Education & Reference

GAP is an open-source computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on computational group theory. It provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms, and extensive documentation.

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