Thanks to all the comments. I will try to put them together and publish
a workhseet with the comparisons.
Best wishes,
Joaquim Puig
En/na Tim Lahey ha escrit:
>
> On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Nasser Abbasi wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> how do you run matlab command from sage like this above? I have sage
>> 4.1.2 and matlab 2008b installed on my windows XP PC, but when I run
>> the above, it tells me it can't start matlab:
>>
>> a = random_matrix(RDF,2000)
>> timeit('a*a')
>> 5 loops, best of 3: 2.17 s per loop
>>
>> b = matlab('rand(2000)')
>> timeit('b*b')
>> ....
>> TypeError: Unable to start matlab
>>
>> I assume I need to do some 'configuration' documented somewhere which
>> I did not even try to look for. may be because iam student and using
>> student version of matlab?
>>
>
>
> The problem likely is that Sage is running inside the VM and is running
> on Linux while Matlab is on XP. Linux can't run a Windows command like
> that. You'd have to install Matlab inside the Sage VM.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
> ---
> Tim Lahey
> PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering
> University of Waterloo
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey
>
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