Cantor is a

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mathematics application for scientific statistics and analysis. It is part of the

KDE Software Compilation 4 KDE Software Compilation 4 (KDE SC 4) was the only series of the so-called KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), first released in January 2008. The final release was version 4.14.3 in November 2014. It was the follow-up to K Desktop Environment 3 ...

, and was introduced with the 4.4 release as part of the

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's ''kdeedu'' package.

Features

Cantor is a

graphical user interface A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows user (computing), users to human–computer interaction, interact with electronic devices through Graphics, graphical icon (computing), icons and visual indicators such ...

that delegates its mathematical operations to one of several backends. Its plugin-based structure allows adding different backends. It can make use of Julia, KAlgebra, Lua, Maxima,

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, Python, Qalculate!, R,

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, and

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. Cantor provides a consistent interface to these backends; its project page lists the following features: * Nice Worksheet view for evaluating expressions * View of plotting results inside the worksheet or in a separate window * Typesetting of mathematical formulas using LaTeX * Backend-aware

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* Plugin-based assistant dialogs for common tasks (like integrating a function or entering a matrix) 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.

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* Notebook interface Educational math software Free educational software KDE Education Project Science software that uses Qt {{KDE-stub