On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:53 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 9, 1:47 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This number theory book that I wrote uses Sage throughout: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/papers/ent/ent-stein/ent.pdf >> >> It will be published by Springer-Verlag as a UTM book sometime >> in the next 6 months. Comments welcome before it's too late :-) > > In > > [quote] > SAGE Example 1.2.5. We can compute the decimal expansion of p in > Sage, > though watch out as this is a serious computation that may take > around > a minute on your computer. Also, do not print out p or s below, > because > both would take a very long time to scroll by. > sage: p = 2^32582657 - 1 # this is easy > sage: int(RR(p).log10()+1) # number of digits > 9808358 > noindentNext we convert p to a decimal string and look at some of the > digits. > sage: s = p.str(10) # this takes a long time > sage: len(s) # s is a very long string (long time) > 9808358 > sage: s[:20] # the first 20 digits of p (long time) > '12457502601536945540' > sage: s[-20:] # the last 20 digits (long time) > '11752880154053967871' > [end quote] > > notice the "noindent" >
Thanks. I've fixed it. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
