[sage-devel] Re: andlinux

2007-10-13 Thread Bill Page
On 10/13/07, Jaap Spies wrote: > ... > I could not type the command: install_scripts('/usr/local/bin') > the first ' was replaced by > which makes no sense to me! > It doesn't make any sense to me either. What happens when you type something else with a quoted string? E.g. maxima('1+1')

[sage-devel] Re: my plenary ams talk

2007-10-13 Thread Timothy Clemans
In number four on page 11: "SAGE has a Huge, active, and well rounded developer community: sage-devel mailing list has over 200 subscribers, working very hard on everything from highly optimized arithmetic, to high school education, to computing modular forms. Usually about 30 people get patches a

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate polynomial coefficients

2007-10-13 Thread cwitty
On Oct 13, 6:51 am, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if we could have a vote on preferred syntax. I'm not going to > describe the parameters because if they are not clear enough from context, it > probably isn't a good parameter choice :) : > > sage: P.=ZZ[] > sage: f=(

[sage-devel] Re: andlinux

2007-10-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Bill Page wrote: > On 10/13/07, Jaap Spies wrote: >> ... >>> On 10/12/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Does anybody want to try to make sage run on Windows via this: http://www.andlinux.org/ Bill Page just pointed out that they're using it for

[sage-devel] Re: andlinux

2007-10-13 Thread Bill Page
On 10/13/07, Jaap Spies wrote: > ... > > On 10/12/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does anybody want to try to make sage run on Windows via this: > >> > >>http://www.andlinux.org/ > >> > >> Bill Page just pointed out that they're using it for FriCAS (=Axiom fork)

[sage-devel] Re: my plenary ams talk

2007-10-13 Thread David Joyner
On 10/13/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is a link to my slides and demo for my ams plenary talk: > > http://sagemath.org/why/alb/ Looks like it will be a great talk. Wish I could make it! > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of

[sage-devel] Re: Braid Goups / Coxeter Groups / Root Systems / ...

2007-10-13 Thread David Joyner
On 10/13/07, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just saw Robert's ticket about implementing / wrapping braid groups > in SAGE ( http://www.sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/876 ) which is > pretty coincidental since I was thinking about the exact same thing > before I went to bed last night.

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Jaap Spies
cwitty wrote: > Well, I could be convinced otherwise. I think it's a good thing that > ZZ(3.0) == 3, but Sloane sequences could do more input validation than > just calling ZZ(). I don't actually care whether an index of 20.0 > works or not. > Yes, you are right, there should be more input va

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread cwitty
On Oct 13, 1:56 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cwitty wrote: > > On Oct 13, 10:30 am, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In sloane_functions.py sequence can now be indexed by reals!? > >> a(1.0) returns a value. Formerly an error was raised. > > > In SloaneSequence.__call__()

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Hi Michael, mabshoff wrote: > Carl Witty has opened tickets for all the issues in trac and there are > already some patches. So if you want to help out joins us in IRC, so > that way we do not duplicate efforts. > No, sorry but I will not join the party. I need a good night rest! Do you ever sl

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:10 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > I've posted the first alpha release of sage-2.8.7 here: > >http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/ > > It is probably somewhat broken. Building it, contributing > fixes, etc., would be greatly appreciated. Here're the test results

[sage-devel] Re: andlinux

2007-10-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Bill Page wrote: > William, > > I am building Sage from source under andLinux right now. Everything > looks good so far. I will report when it completes. It is also > possible that an existing linux binary could work, perhaps provided > some prerequisite libraries are added. > > I really like an

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread mabshoff
Carl Witty has opened tickets for all the issues in trac and there are already some patches. So if you want to help out joins us in IRC, so that way we do not duplicate efforts. The additional number of doctests failing on FC7 in 32 bit mode might be related to coercion issues, see #833 for the b

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Jaap Spies
cwitty wrote: > On Oct 13, 10:30 am, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In sloane_functions.py sequence can now be indexed by reals!? >> a(1.0) returns a value. Formerly an error was raised. > > In SloaneSequence.__call__() (which is shared among all sequences) the > first thing it does is

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread cwitty
On Oct 13, 10:30 am, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In sloane_functions.py sequence can now be indexed by reals!? > a(1.0) returns a value. Formerly an error was raised. In SloaneSequence.__call__() (which is shared among all sequences) the first thing it does is "m = ZZ(n)", to coerce i

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 13, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Jason Grout wrote: mabshoff wrote: >> On Oct 13, 10:10 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > This is odd. The test passes on my Ubuntu 32-bit P4 system. It looks > like the edges are returned in a different order for you, so the > answer > is co

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Jason Grout
Jaap Spies wrote: > Jason Grout wrote: > >> This is odd. The test passes on my Ubuntu 32-bit P4 system. It looks >> like the edges are returned in a different order for you, so the answer >> is correct, just output differently. >> >> I can't build the alpha right now, but someone that has the a

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Jason Grout wrote: > This is odd. The test passes on my Ubuntu 32-bit P4 system. It looks > like the edges are returned in a different order for you, so the answer > is correct, just output differently. > > I can't build the alpha right now, but someone that has the alpha built, > can you see

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > > > On Oct 13, 10:10 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've posted the first alpha release of sage-2.8.7 here: >> >>http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/ >> >> It is probably somewhat broken. Building it, contributing >> fixes, etc., would be great

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate polynomial coefficients

2007-10-13 Thread didier deshommes
2007/10/13, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks for the discussion about this topic. I send this mail to re-iterate > and summarize. It seems there are two things that you might want: > 1) Get the coefficient of a specific monomial in the multivariate polynomial > ring. > 2) Get the

[sage-devel] Re: my plenary ams talk

2007-10-13 Thread Timothy Clemans
Why is one of the screen shots with something about number theory of the old notebook? On 10/13/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is a link to my slides and demo for my ams plenary talk: > > http://sagemath.org/why/alb/ > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > > It is probably somewhat broken. Building it, contributing > fixes, etc., would be greatly appreciated. A lot of test failures on Fedora 7: The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/calculus/wester.py sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/li

[sage-devel] my plenary ams talk

2007-10-13 Thread William Stein
Hi, Here is a link to my slides and demo for my ams plenary talk: http://sagemath.org/why/alb/ -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread William Stein
Hi, I just landed in Albuquerque, NM (free wifi, excellent power outlets, etc., at their airport!). Anyway, I get similar doctest failures on most architecture. As Michael says, if anybody wants to help on this, report the failure as a trac ticket, assign it to sage-2.8.7, and fix it. Then hopef

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 13, 10:10 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've posted the first alpha release of sage-2.8.7 here: > >http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/ > > It is probably somewhat broken. Building it, contributing > fixes, etc., would be greatly appreciated. Hello, build

[sage-devel] Braid Goups / Coxeter Groups / Root Systems / ...

2007-10-13 Thread Mike Hansen
I just saw Robert's ticket about implementing / wrapping braid groups in SAGE ( http://www.sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/876 ) which is pretty coincidental since I was thinking about the exact same thing before I went to bed last night. I wrote an email to Nikos Apostolakis who had expressed inte

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate polynomial coefficients

2007-10-13 Thread Joel B. Mohler
Thanks for the discussion about this topic. I send this mail to re-iterate and summarize. It seems there are two things that you might want: 1) Get the coefficient of a specific monomial in the multivariate polynomial ring. 2) Get the coefficient of the polynomial in a tower of (two) polynom

[sage-devel] sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-13 Thread William Stein
Hi, I've posted the first alpha release of sage-2.8.7 here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/ It is probably somewhat broken. Building it, contributing fixes, etc., would be greatly appreciated. William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http: