CAS software similar to Nspire on macOS 10.13

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I started a math course yesterday and we have to use Nspire from Texas Instruments but my computer is too old to run the current Nspire version.

So far I have tried GNU Octave and GNU Maxima (wxMaxima). Octave does not do what I need and it seems that Maxima can not write math symbols. I need at least TeX support.

I found a list on wikipedia of CAS tools, but it is very time consuming to install and try out all of them.

What CAS tool, that runs on macOS 10.13, is most similar to Nspire?

The math requirements are very modest - here is a list of things I need supported:

1. Equations
2. Graphs (I can also use GeoGebra)
3. Statistics
4. Regressions
5. Save as PDF
6. Write math symbols

I'm currently looking into GNU TeXmacs for math symbols everything I need.

Answers from people with experience with Nspire is greatly appreciated!

For my first assignment, I got some examples of how my deliverables are suppose to look like in Nspire:

1. In Europe, except the UK, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, we use comma as decimal separator. The calculations does not need to support comma as decimal separator.
2. 
3. 
4. 

EDIT: @Henry explained to me how to write math symbols in wxMaxima, so I might not need another CAS program. But still, when the course advances I might find that it is too difficult to keep using wxMaxima, so Nspire alternatives are still appreciated.

Answer 1

So far I've manage to finish my first assignment with TeXmacs + GNU Maxima.

GNU Maxima will do the actual calculations, while TeXmacs will be the main editor.

Screen shot showing math symbols in text and calculations.

GNU Maxima can be downloaded at https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/. I downloaded version 5.41.0 (the big green button) but it appears that the newest version, that is not made for MacPorts, is version 5.43.0.

After downloading, you need to remove the Apple quarantine attribute because Maxima-5.[version number].0-VTK-macOS.dmg is not signed. You do that with the following command:

sudo xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine Downloads/Maxima-5.43.0-VTK-macOS.dmg

Above command will remove the quarantine attribute for Maxima version 5.43 .dmg file. The same command appears to work for all .dmg files.

TeXmacs can be downloaded at https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/macosx.en.html. I am using version 2.1.1.

All of the available functions and constants are described at https://maxima.sourceforge.io/docs/manual/maxima_singlepage.html. I have also found a cheat sheet which covers most calculator features, for GNU Maxima.

Let me know if you are interested in how I made the assignment, in the screen shot above.

This answer is marked as a community wiki, so everyone can contribute with Nspire alternatives that can produce roughly equal content.

Answer 2

I'd use Wolfram Mathematica. It's more than powerful enough to handle your needs, and offers $\LaTeX$ code output.