[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in root finding

2007-03-15 Thread didier deshommes
On Mar 16, 2:37 am, "didier deshommes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 16, 2:23 am, "Nick Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is this because of precision issues? In that case, I still think this > > should return [(1...., 1), (1., 1)] and be documented as > > such. > >

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in root finding

2007-03-15 Thread didier deshommes
On Mar 16, 2:23 am, "Nick Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this because of precision issues? In that case, I still think this > should return [(1...., 1), (1., 1)] and be documented as > such. > > sage: (CC(1)*(x-1)**2).roots() > [1.00, 1.00] > > sag

[sage-devel] Inconsistency in root finding

2007-03-15 Thread Nick Alexander
Is this because of precision issues? In that case, I still think this should return [(1...., 1), (1., 1)] and be documented as such. sage: (CC(1)*(x-1)**2).roots() [1.00, 1.00] sage: ((x-1)**2).roots() [(1, 2)] Nick --~--~-~--~~~-

[sage-devel] Re: Google Summer of CODE

2007-03-15 Thread William Stein
On 3/15/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a pity! Why we didn't give Guido van Rossum a call! > I think he is very much interested in SAGE and mathematical software in > general. > As is Tim Peters. > > > They make it very difficult to tell, I had some weird problems > > submitt

[sage-devel] sage-2.4 plan

2007-03-15 Thread William Stein
Hello, The plan is to release SAGE-2.4 next Wednesday, March 21. Here's the plan * Bobby Moretti - Calculus * William Stein - Modular forms * William Stein - Modular abelian varieties * David Roed - Updated p-adics * William Stein - add p-adic docs to the reference manual * David Harvey -

[sage-devel] Re: Google Summer of CODE

2007-03-15 Thread Jaap Spies
Hi William, >>> William Stein wrote: >>> FYI I just filled out the Google Summer of Code "Mentor Organization" application for SAGE, to see if Google will give us some support. So (1) nobody else do the same thing, and (2) no further discussion about GSoC is needed unless we

[sage-devel] Re: Google Summer of CODE

2007-03-15 Thread William Stein
On 3/15/07, Pere Urbón-Bayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El dj 15 de 03 del 2007 a les 17:25 +0100, en/na Jaap Spies va escriure: > > William Stein wrote: > > > > > FYI I just filled out the Google Summer of Code "Mentor Organization" > > > application for SAGE, to see if Google will give us some

[sage-devel] Re: SageX and C++ and pass-by-reference

2007-03-15 Thread didier deshommes
On Mar 15, 11:33 am, "Michael Abshoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Albrecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have appended my original source of information, maybe you find this > > helpful. > > Thanks for the info. Should this be added to general SAGE documentation? I > am sure once I am though/w

[sage-devel] Re: A menu for the notebook

2007-03-15 Thread Timothy Clemans
There could be a presentation mode in addition to the slideshow mode where the menu would appear. Also cookies could be used to stay in presentation mode until the user switches back to default mode. This way the current navigation system would be the default. On 3/15/07, Georg Muntingh <[EMAIL P

[sage-devel] Re: A menu for the notebook

2007-03-15 Thread Georg Muntingh
I really like it. It looks a lot cleaner than the current interface, because there are not so many buttons distracting you from the content of the notebook. This is an advantage that increases with the number of features. A very nice example of this is the table of contents of the documentation t

[sage-devel] Re: Google Summer of CODE

2007-03-15 Thread Pere Urbón-Bayes
El dj 15 de 03 del 2007 a les 17:25 +0100, en/na Jaap Spies va escriure: > William Stein wrote: > > > FYI I just filled out the Google Summer of Code "Mentor Organization" > > application for SAGE, to see if Google will give us some support. > > So (1) nobody else do the same thing, and (2) no

[sage-devel] Re: Google Summer of CODE

2007-03-15 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > FYI I just filled out the Google Summer of Code "Mentor Organization" > application for SAGE, to see if Google will give us some support. > So (1) nobody else do the same thing, and (2) no further discussion about > GSoC is needed unless we get support (we'll find out in

[sage-devel] Re: SageX and C++ and pass-by-reference

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Abshoff
Martin Albrecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I have appended my original source of information, maybe you find this > helpful. Thanks for the info. Should this be added to general SAGE documentation? I am sure once I am though/working on the code I will have additional suggestions. > Also, (even more off-

[sage-devel] Re: SageX and C++ and pass-by-reference

2007-03-15 Thread Martin Albrecht
>> Sorry to be slightly off topic: CoCoALib 0.98 has been released to the > public under the GPL V2. I wanted to get started with bindings and since > it is a C++ library which also uses references extensively I would like to > know if there is any material besides the givaro bindings and Martin's

[sage-devel] Re: SageX and C++ and pass-by-reference

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Abshoff
Joel B. Mohler wrote: >> >> x[0] should do the trick (as it is equivalent to *x in C) and is the >> recommended way in the Pyrex documentation. But I used the deref trick >> so >> far. > > Yep, you said that in the slides in your SD3 talk. I didn't understand > the > point when I read the slides

[sage-devel] Re: SageX and C++ and pass-by-reference

2007-03-15 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:36, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > My question, what's the most sensible way to call my C++ > > function 'do_something_with_a_reference' that takes a reference > > parameter? I came up with a clever hack -- put the following in your .pxd > > file: cdef extern from "NTL/ZZ