Is it possible with sage to use some type of shorthand notation to > denote the first or second time derivative? > > Hi,
That's a good question, but Sage does not currently support the greatest short notation for derivatives, either differential-style or fluxion-style. The problem is the ambiguity that can arise, among others. However, in principle one could customize the string-creating or LaTeX methods for derivatives if one wanted to, though it could be tricky to do so consistently. Craig Finch, who is not affiliated with Sage but wrote a pretty good introductory (non-free) book about it, has a good explanation at http://www.shocksolution.com/2012/03/partial-derivative-notation-in-sage/ and there is something kind of like what you want in the comments (I think), and he also links to a very long discussion at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/LIBo8nwftkI You can see some noble attempts at this at http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/6756 . Good luck! - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
