On Aug 25, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Robert Dodier wrote: > Tim Lahey wrote: > >> I presume that Sage can't take a derivative with respect to a >> function >> (Maple can't which is why this code is written this way). > > By the way, what do you mean by that? What is the operation that > you would like to do, but fails? Thanks for the info.
You could use automatic differentiation, but that has yet to be implemented in Sage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Automatic_differentiation - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---