hi simon and dan, thanks for your answers. The thing is though, i don't intend to run sage, the full sage, on a phone (!!), but i was hoping that these state-of-the-art telephones that people seem to love could perhaps be used as conveniently as the hand-calculators we had 15 years ago. Say, you want to plot x --> x^2*sin(1/x) on your android phone, what do you do ? when i was a teenager i could do this in a couple of seconds on an HP 48 something (nostalgic sob).
i was thinking that numpy + matplotlib could be used, and perhaps some of the lightest features of sage too, say the ones written in pure python (as oppposed to relying on singular or maxima etc) Well, i guess just having python is already quite cool for quick computations... pierre On 3 août, 16:50, Dan Christensen <j...@uwo.ca> wrote: > Pierre <pierre.guil...@gmail.com> writes: > > I was thinking about buying an android phone, and getting SAGE to work > > was one of the questions, [...] > > > also, now that android supports python, is it possible to install > > numpy, or parts of SAGE, directly? anyone has tried that ? > > Pierre, > > As Simon pointed out, you can run sage directly on the phone, but I > don't think that's a practical way to proceed. Using the notebook is > more reasonable, but I did find it quite slow and fairly awkward. > > In general, while many people say that "web apps" are the future, things > tend to work much better on a phone with a custom app to provide the > interface in a way that takes advantage of the touch screen while > limiting the effect of the small keyboard by providing smart > completions/corrections/pop-ups, etc. > > So I wouldn't buy a phone with sage being the goal, but being able to > use sage when necessary is a nice side benefit. > > Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
