On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:26 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Aleksej Saushev <a...@inbox.ru> wrote: >> William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> 2009/11/15 Serge A. Salamanka <salsa-...@tut.by>: >>>> >>>> I can see no dots in Russia also. >>>> I guess that the problem of free mathematical software doesn't exist in >>>> our scientific world - Mathematica is actually free and it will stay >>>> until the time Mathematica supports russian language in the program >>>> interface and documentation. >>> >>> Do Russians care about open source -- e.g., one can change Sage much >>> more than one can change Mathematica. Also, Sage has vastly more >>> capabilities in number theory and algebraic combinatorics than >>> Mathematica, but this will only matter to specialists. >> >> Yes, we care about open source. >> >> I have report from one person that Sage is useless because it doesn't >> provide anything more than its constituent parts. > > What does that even mean? Is it some subtle expression that I'm > missing? In English we have the expression "The whole is greater > than the sum of its parts". > > Taken at face value in the context of Sage, the above statement is > completely false, and could only be made by somebody who has never > used Sage for more than a second. I could definitely see somebody > making the above statements about Python(x,y) or Enthought's Python > Distribution.
I just realized that Mike is right. There exist certain areas of mathematics where Sage doesn't provide anything extra beyond its constituent parts. E.g., a statement like "For computations in 7 dimensional quasi-numerical stable algebras, Sage is useless for me because it doesn't provide anything more than its constituent parts." William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
