Thanks, now I have already wasted about 1/2 hour on these, and the
total will surely increase.  It reminds me of a recent comic:

http://xkcd.com/356/

ah well...

Marshall

On Jan 30, 12:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Bill Hart wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Some of my undergraduate students have pointed out some interesting
> > things to me, and I thought sage developers might find them
> > interesting.
>
> > The first ishttp://www.projecteuler.net/
>
> > It's a list of computational mathematical problems which you can solve
> > with a CAS, C, assembly, whatever you like.
>
> > I note that the highest completion rate is amongst pari users. Magma
> > is also listed, but where is SAGE?
>
> Sage is not an option on their list.  I'm going to solve 5 problems (one down 
> so far: I just factored 317584931803 ;) ) and send them an email.
>
>
>
> > The second thing pointed out by my students is GridWars.
>
> > I didn't know what it was, but if you google this, two things come up:
>
> > 1) A parallel programming contest
>
> > 2) A computer game based on geometry wars.
>
> > The first is interesting in that it might be a cool thing to
> > try doing with SAGE, i.e. have people compete on processors for CPU
> > time based on some metric, such as how fast their SAGE code solves
> > some problem....
>
> > The second is interesting since it combines graphics, geometry and a
> > game.  IIRC this is something some people were interested in doing
> > with
> > SAGE. The graphics alone for this game are quite inspiring....
>
> > Bill.
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com
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://www.sagemath.org
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to