Thanks for the quick reply! Cheers, Ron
On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 2:05:04 PM UTC-4, William wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Ronald L. Rivest <rives...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > When I type > > random_matrix? > > at the sage notebook, I get documentation that says, for example, that > the > > matrix > > entries will never be zero. But they are, even in the given example. > What > > does > > "and never zero" mean here? > > It's definitely a mistake in the documentation. I wrote the code that > generates these matrices, and there's nothing at all in there to > restrict to nonzero values in the given interval. Somebody else > inexplicably added the nonzero business to the documentation... 5 > years ago in this ticket: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/9803 > > I'll ask them to open a ticket and fix the mistake in the documentation. > > And... I'm excited to see you trying Sage ! I'm a big fan of RSA :-) > > -- William > > > Thanks, > > Ron Rivest > > > > The distribution keyword set to uniform will limit values between -2 and > 2, > > and never zero. > > > > sage: random_matrix(ZZ, 5, 5, distribution='uniform') > > [ 1 0 -2 1 1] > > [ 1 0 0 0 2] > > [-1 -2 0 2 -2] > > [-1 -1 1 1 2] > > [ 0 -2 -1 0 0] > > > > > > > > -- > > 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-s...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- 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.
