Big mathematics systems like Mathematica, Maple or MATLAB are extremely expensive, with prices starting at 00, 00 and 00 respectively. Those prices are for the single commercial license. My interests aren't commercial, but is no non-commercial sales option. They all have Student, Government and Commercial licenses. I'd call myself a student in the wider sense, but they will want to check with my institution, which is, I guess, just myself, and I'm guessing they'd balk at that. [Read more…]