Sage has many optional packages, about 50 actually. However, it is not necessarily well known what some of these do. For example, recently William asked me to fix some issue in the optional database_symbolic_data (still needing review btw. hint hint) package which bought it back to my attention. Shortly after, Burcin mentioned to me that he spent considerable time copy’n’pasting some standard ideals from some package to Sage’s input format. Time which he probably wouldn’t have spent if he’d known about the SymbolicData.org database and it’s Sage interface. Here’s in it action: Continue reading “SymbolicData”