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    copied!<p>Sure, plenty! I see I'm not the first to think of numerical computation libraries like <a href="http://www.scipy.org" rel="noreferrer">Numpy/Scipy</a> - the code in that is actually fairly mature but they could certainly use help documenting. There's also <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/" rel="noreferrer">GNU Octave</a>, which does much of the same things as Numpy but doesn't require Python. A slightly related area in which there's a lot of work to do is computer algebra systems (CAS), basically open source equivalents of Mathematica; for example <a href="http://maxima.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">Maxima</a>, and more are listed at <a href="http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/sigsam/opensource_math.html" rel="noreferrer">http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/sigsam/opensource_math.html</a>. You could also help with visualization libraries, i.e. creation of 2D and 3D plots and figures. For Scipy the most commonly used plot generator is <a href="http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">Matplotlib</a>, for example. There are also loads of more specialized data visualization tools that I'm sure you can find with a few searches.</p> <p>One area that I personally think needs a lot of work is creating GUIs for the programs mentioned in the previous paragraph; one major advantage that commercial programs like Matlab and Mathematica enjoy over their open source equivalents is easy-to-use graphical interfaces. Having a nice usable interface would be great for scientists who may not be skilled in command-line-fu, but open source projects have a <em>long</em> way to go if they're going to catch up.</p>
 

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