Saad: Thanks. What would (hopefully) please everyone is if there was a way to configure the way Sage Cell behaves similar to how local installations can write stuff to a config file.
Is there a way to hardcode the real domain/range and other things like implicit multiplication? cs On Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 3:21:17 PM UTC-5, saad khalid wrote: > > I am a student and I definitely agree with Chris Seberino here. I don't > think it is the job of software (or, rather, it is not good CAS design) to > try and teach people mathematics in this way. I think that the CAS should > be as convenient and intuitive as possible. As an example, I didn't even > know that the functionality with rings that projetmbc highlights in his > post was even possible, I simply assumed that Sage was limited in how it > could do factorization. This is coming from someone who, in comparison to > the rest of the math students at his school, is much more willing to read > the documentation and fiddle with the function and google for solutions > than most others, and I still didn't find this out till just now (and not > for lack of searching on previous occasions, I should say). Also, w/ > respect to Dima's statement about getting used to domains, I do not think > that is exactly related here. The "Symbolic ring" which has the property of > defaulting to the most expanded form of an expression is not a mathematical > concept that I have ever heard of, it is behaviour that is part of Sage. It > is behaviour that is very disconcerting for a new user using the factor > function. I should add, on what I believe to be an unrelated note, that > even if we were debating whether factorization should default to the reals > or the complex numbers or something similar, I would argue that it should > default to the most widely utilized behaviour, with the other options being > left as just that, options (that you can turn on by keyword). So in the > case of factoring to reals or complex roots, I would say that it should > default to real roots, with a keyword allowing complex roots. Back to the > main point, I do wish the factor function was made more intuitive, and that > factoring in SR would recognize when it is integers and actually do > something instead of giving you back what you put in. > > > -- 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.
