[sage-devel] sage-1.8.1

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
Hi, I've released sage-1.8.1. Major changes: * many small improvements to distributed SAGE: it's now braindead to setup distributed SAGE and try it out! Just type dsage? to get going. * More graph theory (labels, tutorial) * update to real matrices.

[sage-devel] Re: Possible undergraduate projects

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:42:40 -0800, Iftikhar Burhanuddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Nils Bruin wrote: >> Projects that are more of a computer science nature could also be >> doable. >> >> Any ideas here? Should I be looking somewhere on the wiki? > > AFAIK the only todo lis

[sage-devel] Re: Possible undergraduate projects

2007-01-23 Thread David Kohel
Hi Nils, Things that come to mind are: 1. LLL (wrapping existing code, not implementing it) and more canonical lattice reduction for small dimensions, with attention to what has been done in the context of quadratic forms? 2. Collaboration on robust p-adic arithmetic -- wrapping and/or testing

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistencies coercing polynomials

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:00:19 -0800, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > >> >> To me, *(1/9) and /9 are the same... >> >> sage: type((f - (x^21 + 3*x^15 + 6*x^9))) >> >> sage: type((f - (x^21 + 3*x^15 + 6*x^9))*(1/9)) >> >> sage: typ

[sage-devel] Re: Possible undergraduate projects

2007-01-23 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
I forgot to mention that Sheldon Kamienny, Ming-Deh Huang and I are starting a undergraduate research project in Number Theory and Cryptography over the summer. Perhaps William can give some direction to these concurrent initiatives and what projects would benefit SAGE and undergraduates and ways

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistencies coercing polynomials

2007-01-23 Thread David Harvey
On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > To me, *(1/9) and /9 are the same... > > sage: type((f - (x^21 + 3*x^15 + 6*x^9))) > > sage: type((f - (x^21 + 3*x^15 + 6*x^9))*(1/9)) > > sage: type((f - (x^21 + 3*x^15 + 6*x^9))/9) > Whoah hang on a second. Something else really bad is

[sage-devel] Inconsistencies coercing polynomials

2007-01-23 Thread Nick Alexander
To me, *(1/9) and /9 are the same... sage: type((f - (x^21 + 3*x^15 + 6*x^9))) sage: type((f - (x^21 + 3*x^15 + 6*x^9))*(1/9)) sage: type((f - (x^21 + 3*x^15 + 6*x^9))/9) Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.

[sage-devel] Re: Possible undergraduate projects

2007-01-23 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Nils Bruin wrote: > > Projects that are more of a computer science nature could also be > doable. > > Any ideas here? Should I be looking somewhere on the wiki? AFAIK the only todo list is for bugs/milestones http://sage.math.washington.edu:9002/sage_trac Perhaps you should

[sage-devel] Possible undergraduate projects

2007-01-23 Thread Nils Bruin
I probably have funding available to let an undergraduate do some work on Sage for 4 months. I would welcome a list of programming tasks that need some attention. The tasks should be rather limited in scope, because an undergraduate should be able to dive in, work, and get some result within 4 mon

[sage-devel] Re: sqlite

2007-01-23 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:01:57AM -0800, William Stein wrote: > Yes. E.g., there is a large table of graphs that one person made, and another > very large table of reflexive polytopes in dimension <= 4. Both are best > queried using SQL. Gonzalo Tornario once made a very nice SQLite database

[sage-devel] Re: Benchmark

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:09:56 -0800, Kiran S. Kedlaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a benchmark I just tried, which annoys me. > > sage: def test1(): > : P. = PolynomialRing(RationalField()) > : t = x^8 - 11*x^7 + x^5 - 1 > : for _ in xrange(1000): > : t.c

[sage-devel] Fwd: Thank you for Sage!

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
Fan mail... --- Forwarded message --- From: "Michael Borysow" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Thank you for Sage! Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:17:24 -0800 Hi Prof. Stein, I just had to say something to one of the developers for Sage, and that's 'Wow!' Sage is exactly what I've been lo

[sage-devel] Re: indented lines beginning with "time"

2007-01-23 Thread David Harvey
On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:04 PM, William Stein wrote: >> Is this behaviour going to be permanent? i.e. should I just change the >> variable name, or is this considered a bug? > > Hey that was my fix to a bug that was reported recently. I.e., people > complained > that "time" didn't work in scripts

[sage-devel] Re: indented lines beginning with "time"

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:56:45 -0800, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A new behaviour just cropped up in SAGE > > If I have a .sage script containing the line > > time = float(time) > > something in there decides to treat this as timing the line "= > float(time)". I don't know

[sage-devel] indented lines beginning with "time"

2007-01-23 Thread David Harvey
A new behaviour just cropped up in SAGE If I have a .sage script containing the line time = float(time) something in there decides to treat this as timing the line "= float(time)". I don't know if this is the preparser or what. Apparently it didn't used to do this because I haven'

[sage-devel] Re: dubious ?? help in 1.8

2007-01-23 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:38:49PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:11:11 -0800, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What does _lcm have to do with valuation in the snippet below? This is > > version > > 1.8 upgraded from 1.7.1. The actual function call se

[sage-devel] Fwd: first MPFI packages ready

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
--- Forwarded message --- From: "Carl Witty" <> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: first MPFI packages ready Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:19:15 -0800 I've put a Mercurial patch bundle and an MPFI spkg in my home directory on sage.math (these are the only two files in the directory so far). Ca

[sage-devel] Re: Dlogs

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:27:47 -0800, David Kohel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm really glad I'm not writing everything in SAGE from scratch! > > Definitely. > > I can put this in this weekend, but if someone doesn't get to it > sooner. OK, this is now http://sage.math.washington.edu:9002

[sage-devel] Re: sage-1.8

2007-01-23 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > Ifti -- the quick fix so you don't have to build/download again is to simply > edit SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/setup.py and uncomment line 697 > > 'sage.functions', > > then type "./sage -br". Not! In addition, I had to copy the function

[sage-devel] Re: dubious ?? help in 1.8

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:11:11 -0800, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What does _lcm have to do with valuation in the snippet below? This is version > 1.8 upgraded from 1.7.1. The actual function call seems to do what I want it > to > do, but the help seems a bit off. Your install

[sage-devel] Re: Dlogs

2007-01-23 Thread David Kohel
> I'm really glad I'm not writing everything in SAGE from scratch! Definitely. I can put this in this weekend, but if someone doesn't get to it sooner. --David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[sage-devel] Re: dubious ?? help in 1.8

2007-01-23 Thread Nick Alexander
Joel B. Mohler wrote: > What does _lcm have to do with valuation in the snippet below? This is version > 1.8 upgraded from 1.7.1. The actual function call seems to do what I want it > to > do, but the help seems a bit off. Indeed! Thanks for the report; I touched this code last, so I'll look

[sage-devel] dubious ?? help in 1.8

2007-01-23 Thread Joel B. Mohler
What does _lcm have to do with valuation in the snippet below? This is version 1.8 upgraded from 1.7.1. The actual function call seems to do what I want it to do, but the help seems a bit off. Also sage: (3).valuation(1) seems to go into an endless loop, but I think I can patch that easily en

[sage-devel] Re: sage-1.8

2007-01-23 Thread William Stein
Hi, OK, I've now figured out the problem, which is quite severe, but will be completely fixed within an hour (I'm uploading a new version right now). Ifti -- the quick fix so you don't have to build/download again is to simply edit SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/setup.py and uncomment line 697

[sage-devel] Re: sage-1.8

2007-01-23 Thread Steven Sivek
I had the same problem -- my sage/functions directory was missing, and when I copied it in from an older release everything worked. Steven > sage-1.8 installed successfully [1] but there's junk [2] on each startup > and other weirdness [3]. > > Ifti. > > + > [1] > === > Writ