On Jun 7, 2008, at 1:15 PM, William Stein wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:58 PM, JPRickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> 4. One thing I didn't quite follow from the TV program is that
>> SAGE seems to be able to use some other programs like Maple. Is it
>> using these like a black box?
>
> To be more concrete Sage is the only general purpose mathematical
> software system that makes it easy to do things like this:
>
> sage: n = 2^129 - 1; n
> 680564733841876926926749214863536422911
> sage: maple(n).ifactor()
> ``(7)*``(431)*``(11053036065049294753459639)*``(2099863)*``(9719)
> sage: mathematica(n).FactorInteger()
> {{7, 1}, {431, 1}, {9719, 1}, {2099863, 1},
> {11053036065049294753459639, 1}}
>
>> And does that undermine the open source philosophy?
>
> I've certainly been told it does... but I don't care. I don't
> even know what "the open source philosphy" is. I just want a useful
> and very powerful system that makes it easier to use all my tools
> together, and I'm glad I now have that system (Sage). Sage at its
> core is really about technology not philosophy.
To clarify, just because Sage can interact with these other systems
doesn't mean that they're required to have a fully functioning Sage.
- Robert
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