On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, Todd Zimmerman <todd.zimmerman....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I assumed that SageMath converts the functions into symbolic expressions. > If I enter the following it will work: > > > f=lambda x: x*sin(x) > diff(f(x),x) > f is a python function f(x) is a symbolic expression - the result of calling f with input x. > > def g(x): > return x*sin(x) > > diff(g(x),x) > > On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 4:01:09 PM UTC-5, Harald Schilly wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Todd Zimmerman >> <todd.zimm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > You can integrate and differentiate both types of functions in >> SageMath as >> > well as use them for solving differential equations. >> >> So, can you copy/paste us an example? It does work, if that small >> python-function is evaluated and returns a symbolic expression. That >> will work, I don't doubt that, but the python-function in itself is >> then no longer part of this. Key for understanding this is, that >> nested functions are evaluated from the inside out and there is no >> direct concept of lazyness in Python. In some situations, it might >> look like that, so I fully understand that this is confusing. >> >> -- h >> > -- > 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-support%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-support@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
