[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread William Stein
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:08:40 -0700, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, William Stein wrote: >> On 11/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Under the way I've implemented this, the >>> action on the list [1,...,n] is trivially >>> isomorphic to the group structure. You >>> seem to be using a l

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread boothby
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, William Stein wrote: > > On 11/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Under the way I've implemented this, the >> action on the list [1,...,n] is trivially >> isomorphic to the group structure. You >> seem to be using a left-action which > ^^^ > > I am us

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread William Stein
On 11/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Under the way I've implemented this, the > action on the list [1,...,n] is trivially > isomorphic to the group structure. You > seem to be using a left-action which ^^^ I am using a left action. > doesn't really go well with the nota

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread boothby
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, William Stein wrote: > Applying the permutation (1,2,3)(4,5) to [0,1,2,3,4] > should either move the entry in position 1 (which happens > to be called "0") to position 2, so that the output looks like > [*,0,*,*,*] > or if we do some weird 1-based thing, it would always >

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread boothby
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, William Stein wrote: > > On 11/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> In particular, how does applying (1,2,3)(4,5) to [0,1,2,3,4] >>> result in what you claim, i.e., in [1, 2, 0, 4, 3]? >>> It should either be an error, or maybe: >>>[2,0,1,3,4] >>> if s

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread William Stein
On 11/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In particular, how does applying (1,2,3)(4,5) to [0,1,2,3,4] > > result in what you claim, i.e., in [1, 2, 0, 4, 3]? > > It should either be an error, or maybe: > >[2,0,1,3,4] > > if say (1,2,3)(4,5) sends the "first entry", i.e., 0t

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread boothby
> In particular, how does applying (1,2,3)(4,5) to [0,1,2,3,4] > result in what you claim, i.e., in [1, 2, 0, 4, 3]? > It should either be an error, or maybe: >[2,0,1,3,4] > if say (1,2,3)(4,5) sends the "first entry", i.e., 0th position > to the 1st, the 1st to 2nd, etc, That's what is going

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread William Stein
On 11/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The expected output is incorrect; the actual output is correct. From irc: 20:24 < mabshoff> Sucks, but also re #750: 20:24 < mabshoff> File "permgroup_element.py", line 323: 20:24 < mabshoff> sage: g([0,1,2,3,4]) 20:24 < mabshoff>

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 2, 5:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello boothby, > The expected output is incorrect; the actual output is correct. Okay, I am fixing the doctest then. We are planning an rc2 in a couple hours if William and I get it to compile on 10.5 without the need for manual interaction. We are

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread boothby
The expected output is incorrect; the actual output is correct. On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, mabshoff wrote: > > I have released 2.8.11.rc1 (sorry, I skipped rc0, by the time I > realized the problem I had already called it rc1 in trac) at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.rc

[sage-devel] Re: Announcement for Sage Bug Day 5: November 3rd, 10am PST

2007-11-01 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 29, 6:13 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > Hello folks, > > BugDay5 is now planned for Saturday, November 3rd, 2007. Official > start will be 10am PST, but as usual people from European time zones > or the east coast might start earlier and finish a little sooner. > >

[sage-devel] 2.8.11.rc1 released

2007-11-01 Thread mabshoff
I have released 2.8.11.rc1 (sorry, I skipped rc0, by the time I realized the problem I had already called it rc1 in trac) at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.rc1.tar It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to get some build feedback on OSX 10.4, both PPC and Int

[sage-devel] Want to promote SAGE in Mexico?

2007-11-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello SAGEists. We're having a Python and free software seminar here at CIMAT (http:// www.cimat.mx unfortunately Spanish-only at the moment), and it would be very nice if we could invite someone prominent within SAGE development to give us a talk, if only to wash away the bad aftertaste of the M

[sage-devel] Re: bug: nonsense yields nonsense

2007-11-01 Thread William Stein
On 11/1/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe doesn't need a trac ticket? > > > > Nick > > > > Observe the mistaken comma: > > > > sage: factor(next_prime(ZZ(2)**45), next_prime(ZZ(3)**30)) > > -- > > -- > > ---

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Sage Days 6

2007-11-01 Thread John Cremona
Pardon my replying to myself... It is also true that I implemented much the same in gp, and that *does* have a sage interface. For example, sage: EllipticCurve(GF(10007),[1,2,3,4,5]).abelian_group() (Multiplicative Abelian Group isomorphic to C5038 x C2, ((9698 : 153 : 1), (8590 : 2742 : 1)))

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Sage Days 6

2007-11-01 Thread John Cremona
[This is still somehow attached to the off-list thread "Sage Days 6 -- but I don;t know how to change that other than by starting a new thread!] NTL has a class ZZ_p for integers modulo (a prime) p, which I use in mwrank for various classes which implement elliptic curve arithmetic over those pri

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Sage Days 6

2007-11-01 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Tuesday 30 October 2007, John Cremona wrote: > I agree about not rewriting for the sake of it -- but this was on the > to-do list for SD5, wasn't it? Perhaps the to-do is to implement over > GF(q) what we already have over GF(p). > > *only* because I did not have access to other finite fields

[sage-devel] Re: bug: nonsense yields nonsense

2007-11-01 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 1, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > Maybe doesn't need a trac ticket? > > Nick > > Observe the mistaken comma: > > sage: factor(next_prime(ZZ(2)**45), next_prime(ZZ(3)**30)) > -- > -- > --- > Traceback (

[sage-devel] bug: nonsense yields nonsense

2007-11-01 Thread Nick Alexander
Maybe doesn't need a trac ticket? Nick Observe the mistaken comma: sage: factor(next_prime(ZZ(2)**45), next_prime(ZZ(3)**30)) --- Traceback (most recent call last) /Users/ncalexan/Documents/School/MATH235/groe

[sage-devel] Re: Possible coercion code bug, and coercion concerns

2007-11-01 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 1, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Carl Witty wrote: > On Oct 31, 11:41 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Carl Witty wrote: >>> 2) The automatic detection of possible actions scares me. It seems >>> fragile and overly magical. Would it be possible to disa

[sage-devel] Re: Issue during upgrade

2007-11-01 Thread didier deshommes
On 10/28/07, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, accidentally hit send before I wrote anything :). > > When upgrading to 2.8.9, the upgrade halts with the output > > /bin/sed: can't read /home/bob/sage-2.8.7/local/lib/libgmp.la: No such > file or directory Having the same problem

[sage-devel] Re: quadratic fields

2007-11-01 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:11 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:57 -0700, Robert Bradshaw > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The answer is, I believe, yes. Should it rely on the check flag to >> decide whether or not to try and factor? > > Wait, is there a good reason to ever compute

[sage-devel] Re: Possible coercion code bug, and coercion concerns

2007-11-01 Thread Carl Witty
On Oct 31, 11:41 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Carl Witty wrote: > > 2) The automatic detection of possible actions scares me. It seems > > fragile and overly magical. Would it be possible to disable this > > (which would presumably slow things bac

[sage-devel] 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > I have released 2.8.11.alpha0 at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.alpha0.tar > > It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to get some build > feedback on OSX 10.4, both PPC and Intel flavors, as well as 32 bit > Linux. I plan to release 2.8

[sage-devel] Re: Feature Request/Talk Feedback

2007-11-01 Thread didier deshommes
On 11/1/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Usually, if we choose an implementation for a particular functionality, we try > to make sure to always pick the best implementation available. However, this > choice only applies to those systems we ship (singular, gap, pari ...) and > not

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread Carl Witty
On Nov 1, 12:20 pm, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2.8.11.alpha0 builds and seems to run fine on my gentoo 32-bit machine. > However, I have this one failed doc-test (which appears to basically be a > precision issue): > > sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/lfunctions/lcalc.py

[sage-devel] [Spam] Re: [sage-devel] 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:03:03AM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > > I have released 2.8.11.alpha0 at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.alpha0.tar > > It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to get some build > feedback on OSX 10.4, both PPC and Intel flavors, as w

[sage-devel] Re: Feature Request/Talk Feedback

2007-11-01 Thread John Cremona
That's exactly the sort of use which I had in mind. There is a possible danger that if lots of papers cite Sage for the computations (which of course we hope they will do), when the "hard" part of the computation was done in one of the component packages, then the writers of that package might fe

[sage-devel] Re: Feature Request/Talk Feedback

2007-11-01 Thread Jason Grout
John Cremona wrote: > This doesn't exactly answer your question, but I think it would be > useful (or at least interesting) if setting some global flag would > cause Sage to report which external (or internal 3rd party) packages > were used in reaching a result. But perhaps that is unrealistic si

[sage-devel] Re: Feature Request/Talk Feedback

2007-11-01 Thread John Cremona
This doesn't exactly answer your question, but I think it would be useful (or at least interesting) if setting some global flag would cause Sage to report which external (or internal 3rd party) packages were used in reaching a result. But perhaps that is unrealistic since a long computation might

[sage-devel] Feature Request/Talk Feedback

2007-11-01 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi there, I gave my talk to the PhD seminar here at Royal Holloway today and I stressed the fact that Sage is a unified interface to many math packages quite a lot. This provoked the follow feature request/suggestion I was quick to turn down. However, this should forward to all Sage developers

[sage-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] Axiom Wiki and Portal are moving

2007-11-01 Thread Bill Page
On 01 Nov 2007 12:54:00 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | new sites now. They can be found at: > | > | http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org > | > | and > | > | http://axiom-portal.newsynthesis.org > > What will happen to the email [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread William Stein
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:03:23 -0700, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/1/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I have released 2.8.11.alpha0 at >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.alpha0.tar >> >> It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread David Joyner
On 11/1/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have released 2.8.11.alpha0 at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.alpha0.tar > > It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to get some build > feedback on OSX 10.4, both PPC and Intel flavors, as well as 32 bit

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > I have released 2.8.11.alpha0 at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.alpha0.tar > > It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to get some build > feedback on OSX 10.4, both PPC and Intel flavors, as well as 32 bit > Linux. I plan to release 2.8.

[sage-devel] Givaro 3.2.6 build problem on MacOS X 10.5

2007-11-01 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
Dear Dr. Dumas, I've encountered a build problem in Givaro 3.2.6 on MacOS X 10.5. The uint type used in src/kernel/zpz/givzpz32std.inl for example is not available unless sys/types.h is included. The following patch fixes the problem for me: --- src/kernel/system/givbasictype.h.ORIG 2

[sage-devel] 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread mabshoff
I have released 2.8.11.alpha0 at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.alpha0.tar It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to get some build feedback on OSX 10.4, both PPC and Intel flavors, as well as 32 bit Linux. I plan to release 2.8.11 final by late Friday night

[sage-devel] Re: Mike Hansens talk *today* introducing Sae and symmetric functions, etc.

2007-11-01 Thread David Joyner
Many thanks William and Mike for recording and uploading these! On 11/1/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > This is the video from Mike Hansen's talk *today* introducing Sage and > symmetric functions, etc., during the Univ of Washington combinatorics > seminar: > > http:

[sage-devel] Re: quadratic fields

2007-11-01 Thread John Cremona
ok, I'm happy! On 01/11/2007, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/1/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my opinion construction of the field, in order to able to do basic > > arithmetic in it, should not require any checking other than that the > > defining polynomia

[sage-devel] Re: quadratic fields

2007-11-01 Thread William Stein
On 11/1/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my opinion construction of the field, in order to able to do basic > arithmetic in it, should not require any checking other than that the > defining polynomial is irreducible -- in this case, whether D is a > square. Only if you need the r

[sage-devel] Re: quadratic fields

2007-11-01 Thread John Cremona
In my opinion construction of the field, in order to able to do basic arithmetic in it, should not require any checking other than that the defining polynomial is irreducible -- in this case, whether D is a square. Only if you need the ring of integers should it be necessary to do the extra work