Great, thanks! Now I can finally change my settings from Python to Sage. :)
On Sep 16, 8:43 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:39 AM > Subject: [sage-devel] Sage as a language option on Project Euler > To: sage-devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi all, > > projecteuler.net is a fun site that lists over 200 interesting > computational math problems and allows registered members to check and > post their solutions. Member-profiles include information on what > computer language the member prefers to use for the solutions, and the > list of available language choices is quite extensive. > > I recently requested that Sage be available as a language option, and > it has now been added to the site > (seehttp://forum.projecteuler.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1097&sid=1c0656df92... > ) > > According to the Statistics > webpagehttp://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=statistics > Matlab, Mathematica and Maple are the languages of choice for 304, 258 > and 66 members respectively, while Python is second (chosen by 3484 > members) after c/c++ (chosen by 4189 members). > > Solutions to these problems could be interesting benchmarks for > comparing Sage with some of its competitors (e.g. regarding runtime as > well as simplicity and expressivity). Challenging students to solve > these problems with Sage is also a neat way to get them involved with > some nontrivial algorithmic issues, although several problems are > rather easy to solve with a mathematical system like Sage. > > (If you sign up at projecteuler.net and use Sage for some solutions, > be sure to select it as your language option.) > > Apologies if this should rather have been posted somewhere else... > (please let me know where or repost). > > Regards, > Peter > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@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-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
