Mate is a non-profit online mathematical tool focusing on simple symbolic and numerical calculations

Numerical analysis

Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation for the problems of mathematical analysis ....

. It provides a small interpreted

Interpreted language

Interpreted language is a programming language in which programs are 'indirectly' executed by an interpreter program. This can be contrasted with a compiled language which is converted into machine code and then 'directly' executed by the host CPU...

, dynamically typed programming language supporting among other datatypes, matrices, boleans, intervals, sets and fractions.

Mate came online in 2005, and is still under development. In comparison to professional math applications like Mathematica

Mathematica

Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...

, it has very limited functionality.

Examples

A variable is allocated a value:

a := 3;

b := 2*a;

A function is defined:

f(x) := 2*x^2;

A vector is defined:

t := { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6};

y := f(t);

A graph is plotted:

plot(t,y);