How fast should a symbolic computation library be? What is the fastest symbolic computation library?
On 4/13/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/13/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If SymPy was written in C++ and had a Python interface in it what > > would be the likely hood of it being the backend for symbolic > > computation in SAGE? > > > Are you talking about Yacas? > > http://www.koders.com/python/fidDCC1B0FBFABC770277A28835D5FFADC9D25FF54E.aspx > http://yacas.sourceforge.net/essays.html > > > > > > On 4/13/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > me: There are several SAGE people who are playing around with SymPy > > > and an optional package of SymPy for SAGE has been requested by > > > William > > > Sent at 11:50 AM on Friday > > > Ondrej: I see > > > feel free to ask on the sympy mailing list > > > > > > On 4/13/07, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On April 13, 2007 11:02 AM William Stein wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 4/13/07, Mike Hansen wrote: > > > > > > I definitely agree that SAGE's goals are quite a bit higher > > > > > > and more ambitious than those outlined on the SymPy project. > > > > > > While looking over the SymPy website, I was just surprised > > > > > > because I had never heard of the project and their scope > > > > > > seemed to be much wider than I had initially thought (quantum > > > > > > field theory calculations, a port of grtensorii, Groebner > > > > > > bases calculations, symbolic linear algebra, etc.) While > > > > > > there may be a limited (if any) amount we could benefit from > > > > > > their current codebase, I thought it'd be good just to be > > > > > > aware of any other work done with computer algebra in Python. > > > > > > > > > > I certainly agree. At a minimum it would be nice to have a > > > > > SAGE optional package that install SymPy. Anybody want to > > > > > make one? > > > > > > > > > > > > > It turns out that running SymPy in Sage is quite easy after > > > > you install the prerequisite pygame package that is already > > > > available as an experimental SAGE package > > > > > > > > sage -i pygame-1.7.1release > > > > > > > > I have been experimenting a little with it here: > > > > > > > > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxSymPy > > > > > > > > It might be interesting to know (and a bit galling - at least it > > > > was for me as an Axiom developer) to know that the SymPy got 5 > > > > Google Summer of Code funded projects! Axiom partnered with LispNYC > > > > for SOC 2007 but we did not get any qualified applications. :-( > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Bill Page. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
