Chasys Math

Although it's not the activity you enjoy the most while a youngster, school teaches you the basics in life, even if methods used are not so appealing or lessons rather ambiguous. For instance, math is pretty difficult and stretches on several years of study, but it's the foundation of every working computer and building still standing. To help you out, Chasys Math comes with several tools to easily solve complex expressions and matrices.

A lot of effort was put into development and attention to detail and you can view this even throughout the installation process, with only a few steps to go through which are intuitive and on top of an appealing background. The workspace itself also benefits from highly-detailed menus, animations for interactions and more visual tweaks that ease the process of accommodation.

There are two components in the package, both launched from the same menu. The first that pops up is a so-called calculator, already equipped with a complex expression so you get an idea of what the application is capable of.

However, the main attraction in this window is the graph representation, which needless to say that is based on your input. There aren't any customization options whatsoever, but elements are cleverly displayed and you can easily identify and read them.

A small input field is put at your disposal and sadly, there's no custom math keyboard to quickly insert expressions so you'll need to use standard methods of writing down formulas. On the other hand, it's not a major inconvenience, given the list of supported commands and the real-time updating preview that puts characters in an organized, readable, standardized manner.

The other counterpart is dedicated to solving matrices. You can keep them both up at the same time and even multiple similar instances. Configuration options let you define the matrix, while editing is done on the spot for each cell. Hitting the “Solve” button instantly generates the result, which you can copy to your clipboard and insert in other documents.

It's not all fun and games and you hit a brick wall as soon as you try to gather data. Sadly, there's absolutely no possibility to grab results, with text being impossible to select in order to have it pasted elsewhere. It would have been useful at least to be able to generate an image from the graph representation, or for the copy function to work.

Chasys Math is a powerful companion that is sure to help you settle terms with math once and for all. However, it feels a little rough around the edges once you're familiar with it, with no separate, simple calculator and no options to export, with more effort put into visual design rather than functionality. With practicality a little shattered, it still manages to live up to expectations, being worth at least a try.