On Dec 9, 2008, at 8:29 PM, William Stein wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On Dec 9, 2008, at 7:55 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >>>> I ran across this in some timestepping code I wrote for a ODE >>>> solver >>>> for systems of second order ODEs. The general trick I used is to >>>> set >>>> the first n-1 terms based upon the formula and set the final one to >>>> the endpoint. It means that the final one may be shorter, but that >>>> way >>>> it always ends at the set endpoint. >>> >>> Any chance you could dive in and fixe srange? It's a pure Python >>> function in >>> sage/misc/misc.py >>> >> >> That's an awfully complicated function for what should be fairly >> simple. >> I'm not entirely sure what is being done is some of that code so I >> don't >> know if I want to touch it. > > Do it! What's the worst that can happen? It'll be refereed. Maybe > you can > write something better that is simpler too. > > William I have marking this week and I'm likely starting a contract next week so I don't think I'll have a chance to fix it until January at the earliest. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---