On Nov 21, 2007 10:04 AM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> William wrote:
>
> > But this might be pretty hard to fix soon. Making sure we
> > are well aware of it, though, is critically important if we
> > are to push Sage to be truly professional level in
> > non-algebraic areas...
>
> Do you have a rough estimate of how much it might cost to fix this bug
> (either in Sage or in Maxima)? The university I teach at might be
> willing to pay for the cost of fixing this bug since our curriculums
> use this type of calculation heavily.
I think one student working for two weeks could greatly enhance solve,
but making it:
(1) try the maxima solve, and
(2) if the maxima solve returns no solutions, do something further that
involves numerics, e.g., calling to scipy's iterative solver.
In particular, if you could give a list of the sort of problems you want to make
sure solve could solve, we can make sure it does.
Students here work for about $13/hour for up to 19 hours/week, so two weeks
would be $494. Possibly Bobby and/or Josh would be interested?
William
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