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My club is considering buying a Raspberry Pi computer for tinkering. Can Mathematica be installed on and ran from it?

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No. Mathematica is not available for Linux on the ARM architecture; only for x86/x86-64.

Even if it ran, performance wouldn't be very good, considering the Pi's weaker hardware. From the FAQ you linked to:

Overall real world performance is something like a 300 MHz Pentium 2, only with much, much swankier graphics.

while Wolfram recommends

Processor: Intel Pentium III 650 MHz or equivalent
Disk Space: 4 GB
System Memory (RAM): 512 MB required; 1 GB+ recommended

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If, hypothetically, you could compile MMA for ARM then you could use a version from the Pentium 2 era which should run better. Moot point though. – s0rce Oct 9 '12 at 15:43

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