> It's all about acquiring a bigger audience in the applied fields. > There is certainly the impression out there that Sage is MAINLY a CAS > system (as opposed to a numerical system), and more geared towards > pure mathematicians than engineers, physicists, and applied > scientists. A separate and clear way to configure or to download an > engineering version (say through a separate webpage), that is well > advertised, would go a long way in helping Sage as a whole. Just my > humble opinion. I found some of sage features a bit of a mess the first times I did numerical computation in sage, like using Reals and Integers instead of float or ints, or using rationals and symbolic expressions for radicals.
But I think a numerical mode would be a better choice. Selecting python in the drop list gets you closer to that, but it still yields the symbolic sqrt(2) instead of the numerical approximation, for example. Just loading math.sqrt instead of sqrt and taking similar choices of loaded packages would be enough for me, with same interface and package base. Like me, I think many people would use one mode or the other, depending on the task, so installing both the standard and the applied versions would not be saving any space. Regards Pablo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
