Original author(s) Development status Active | Written in C++ | |
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Initial release 2009; 8 years ago (2009) Stable release 16.08.0 / August 18, 2016; 6 months ago (2016-08-18) |
Cantor is a free software mathematics application for scientific statistics and analysis. It is part of the KDE Software Compilation 4, and was introduced with the 4.4 release as part of the KDE Education Project's kdeedu package.
Features
Cantor is a graphical user interface that delegates its mathematical operations to one of several backends. Its plugin-based structure allows adding different backends. It can make use of GNU Octave, Julia, KAlgebra, Lua, Maxima, Python, Qalculate!, R, SageMath, and Scilab.
Cantor provides a consistent interface to these backends; its project page lists the following features:
Cantor was the first KDE project to implement upload to the GetHotNewStuff addon service, which is used to download or upload example worksheets. It provided impetus for improvement of this feature for KDE SC 4.4.