On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, calcp...@aol.com wrote: > That's a good question! I've written functions in MATLAB (well Octave > actually) no problem. But I get confused where Python leaves off and Sage > kicks in when witting functions here.
The way to think about this is that Sage is just a huge Python library, and writing a function in Sage (in the programming sense, not the mathematical sense) is exactly the same as writing a function in Python. >From the command line/notebook, there is some preparsing that goes on, but it's stuff like 5 -> Integer(5) so that 1/5 doesn't become 0. > Could someone please give me a barebones example, soup to nuts, of a > Python vs. Sage vs. Other (Maxima and such) function that does, say, Newton's > Method for finding Roots? > > 1) what does the function look like > 2) how do you invoke it > 3) what's the input > 3) where's the output > 4) etc > > TIA, > A. Jorge Garcia > _http://calcpage.tripod.com_ (http://calcpage.tripod.com/) > > Teacher & Professor > Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science > Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College > > > In a message dated 9/2/2009 5:57:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > thephantom6...@hotmail.com writes: > > No. The call is CSquare(2,3,4). Just trying to setup a random quad. > Could this function be done with just Sage? I need coeficients, each > term, sides of the equation, etc. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
