[sage-devel] sage-2.8.7

2007-10-15 Thread William Stein
Hi, I have released sage-2.8.7. You can upgrade via sage -upgrade or download the source from sagemath.org. Binaries will be available tomorrow. For a list of patches see: http://sagemath.org/announce/sage-2.8.7.txt I huge number of people helped a great deal with this release, espec

[sage-devel] google video of my Albuquerque talk

2007-10-15 Thread William Stein
Hi, I've posted a link to the video from my Albuquerque AMS meeting here: http://sagemath.org/why/alb/ Also, my class today was on "Computational Algebraic Number Theory with Sage", which had a lot of discussion of Sage: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8979574745331295270&hl=en

[sage-devel] Re: random polynomial generation

2007-10-15 Thread Nick Alexander
> "??" will give you this together with the corresponding code. > > There are some glitches in the system, but it works pretty well. Glitches that I would love to hear about, and hopefully fix. Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-

[sage-devel] special function patch

2007-10-15 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I fixed some bugs in the special functions module. The patch is linked to in the trac ticket http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/906 and passes sage -t. (This patch was originally created in Oct 2006 but never applied.) - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-devel] Re: random polynomial generation

2007-10-15 Thread didier deshommes
2007/10/15, Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > I need to create a random multivariate polynomial. I do it as follows: > > F = GF(10007)['x,y'].random_element(4,9) Hi Stephen, This is not an "exact" function. The only guarantee we have is that we will get a polynomial with total degree of

[sage-devel] Re: random polynomial generation

2007-10-15 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Steffen wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to create a random multivariate polynomial. I do it as follows: > > F = GF(10007)['x,y'].random_element(4,9) > > Now, sage creates a polynomial in x and y of degree 2 in every > variable, since 4 = 2+2. Furthermore 9 restricts the po

[sage-devel] random polynomial generation

2007-10-15 Thread Steffen
Hi, I need to create a random multivariate polynomial. I do it as follows: F = GF(10007)['x,y'].random_element(4,9) Now, sage creates a polynomial in x and y of degree 2 in every variable, since 4 = 2+2. Furthermore 9 restricts the polynomial to 9 coefficients. I could not find any documentatio

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

2007-10-15 Thread Mike Hansen
> Please also check out the GAP package braid > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/gap/braid.tar.gz > written by K. Magaard, S. Shpectorov and H. Voelklein, > and HAP, which I think has some briad-related stuff but I can't find > it right now. I looked and didn't find anything what I was lo

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

2007-10-15 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > Hello, > > I have released sage-2.8.7.rc1 here: > >http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/ > > In particular, this link: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sage-2.8.7.rc1.tar > > Hopefully this will work with no doctest failures on some systems. > Let me know

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

2007-10-15 Thread David Joyner
On 10/15/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've posted rc2, which resolved a few remaining > issues (a major bug in Cython and issues I had > with two of the patches that fixed things): > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sage-2.8.7.rc2.tar > > Also, it would be great if

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

2007-10-15 Thread William Stein
Hi, I've posted rc2, which resolved a few remaining issues (a major bug in Cython and issues I had with two of the patches that fixed things): http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sage-2.8.7.rc2.tar Also, it would be great if somebody with SUSE could test the build. I had a major problem buildi

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

2007-10-15 Thread Pablo De Napoli
All test passed on Gentoo x86 linux (gcc-4.1.2) On 10/15/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 2007, at 6:56 AM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have released sage-2.8.7.rc1 here: > > > >http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/ > > > > In particular, th