[sage-devel] Sage 3.0.1.rc0 released!

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
Hello, This is the end of the 3.0.1 release cycle. The build was announced in IRC about eight hours ago, but since I took a long nap in the meantime I never posted to sage-devel ;) Gary's pbuild has been improved and three bugs have been fixed. Please try it out again for feedback. To use pbu

[sage-devel] Re: scilab

2008-05-02 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:41 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is interesting too but was unable to compile it nor get > the binary to work. > So I downloaded these two packages for scilab-5.0-beta-1: http://www.scilab.org/download/5.0-beta-1/prerequirements-scilab-5

[sage-devel] Re: Debian package build failure for gfan with 3.0.1alpha1

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 3, 6:41 am, tabbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 7:31 pm, Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got it! -IGMPRATIONAL should be -DGMPRATIONAL > > Do not know where that came from in your package. > > > Francois > > Indeed; that was a typo in my package introduced when I fi

[sage-devel] Re: Debian package build failure for gfan with 3.0.1alpha1

2008-05-02 Thread tabbott
On May 2, 7:31 pm, Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got it! -IGMPRATIONAL should be -DGMPRATIONAL > Do not know where that came from in your package. > > Francois Indeed; that was a typo in my package introduced when I fixed a different bug. It would have probably taken me a long time to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.1-alpha1 released!

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 3, 1:50 am, Andrzej Giniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > built fine of Arch linux 32 bit without any change, didn't run tests > yet but will soon... > > anyway small off-topic - I was making spkg for R 2.7 and RPy 1.0.2 to > see if it would work (2.7 have some nice Cairo graphic

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Hart
Actually, it might be n/log(n) steps, so the time might be something like n^2 though there are other terms involved. Bill. On 3 May, 00:30, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The theoretical complexity of all the algorithms that rely on > recurrences is supposed to be n^2. But this doesn't t

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.1-alpha1 released!

2008-05-02 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
Hi, built fine of Arch linux 32 bit without any change, didn't run tests yet but will soon... anyway small off-topic - I was making spkg for R 2.7 and RPy 1.0.2 to see if it would work (2.7 have some nice Cairo graphics driver in addition to X11 and others, examples from wiki already works), but

[sage-devel] Re: scilab

2008-05-02 Thread David Joyner
I think this is interesting too but was unable to compile it nor get the binary to work. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:31 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > Very interestingly, somebody posted

[sage-devel] Re: Debian package build failure for gfan with 3.0.1alpha1

2008-05-02 Thread Francois
On May 3, 4:25 am, "Michael Abshoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I attempted to build the 3.0.1alpha1 packages for Debian, but it doesn't > > build, apparently due to some type errors. The build log is attached -

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Hart
The theoretical complexity of all the algorithms that rely on recurrences is supposed to be n^2. But this doesn't take into account the size of the numbers themselves. When you do this they are all about n^3 as far as I can see. You can use Ramanujan identities, the Akiyama-Tanigawa algorithm, the

[sage-devel] Re: RFC: article for OpenWetWare

2008-05-02 Thread Simon King
Hi! On May 2, 10:17 pm, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am more or less done my draft of a Sage/Cython article for > OpenWetWare.  I think this is a good minor opportunity to expose a > different community to Sage.  The bioinformatics community is already > fairly pro-open-source, and Ope

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread Yi Qiang
The Sage lab on UW campus has a lot of shelf space :-) On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On May 2, 10:28 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On May 2, 2008, at 11:25 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > > > > > > Could we use a bunch on non-SSE

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: mercurial --> plain text --> mercurial

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Grout
Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On May 2, 2008, at 2:39 AM, mabshoff wrote: > >> On Apr 29, 7:14 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:53 AM, mabshoff >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've made a trac ticket for this, since it seems to have got stalled: >>> >>>http://tr

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Hart
I did some computations using von Staudt's theorem and up to 40 no errors. Of course that doesn't prove anything for much larger n. Bill. On 2 May, 21:04, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >  On May 2, 20

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: mercurial --> plain text --> mercurial

2008-05-02 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 2, 2008, at 2:39 AM, mabshoff wrote: > On Apr 29, 7:14 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:53 AM, mabshoff > > >> Hi, >> >> I've made a trac ticket for this, since it seems to have got stalled: >> >>http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/305

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 2, 10:28 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 2008, at 11:25 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > Could we use a bunch on non-SSE2 Athlons with > > decent, i.e. 1GB RAM, this would be doable. > > I'm sure the UW Math department has machines that old which we could   > get for

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 2, 10:34 pm, "didier deshommes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is some more information about the machine used to compute this: Hi, > Hi Didier, > >  I used Linux, with 64 bit AMD processor: > >  AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 250 >  cpu MHz         : 1000.000 >  cache size      : 1024 KB

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread didier deshommes
Here is some more information about the machine used to compute this: -- Forwarded message -- From: Oleksandr Pavlyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Today We Broke the Bernoulli Record: From the Analytical Engine to Mathematica To: didier deshomm

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 2, 2008, at 11:25 AM, mabshoff wrote: > On May 2, 8:06 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > >> Steal the CPU detection code from ATLAS and use that to test to >> see if >> the processor we're running on is the same as the processor we >> compiled

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread David Harvey
One more data point (2.6GHz opteron): sage: time x = bernoulli(6) Wall time: 3.79 sage: time x = bernoulli(12) Wall time: 16.97 sage: time x = bernoulli(24) Wall time: 118.24 sage: time x = bernoulli(48) Wall time: 540.25 sage: time x = bernoulli(96) Wall time: 2436.06 Th

[sage-devel] RFC: article for OpenWetWare

2008-05-02 Thread mhampton
I am more or less done my draft of a Sage/Cython article for OpenWetWare. I think this is a good minor opportunity to expose a different community to Sage. The bioinformatics community is already fairly pro-open-source, and OpenWetWare readers are self-selected to be more so. Before it is made

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread boothby
Sorry, the y-axis in the lower plot is log(time in seconds). On Fri, 2 May 2008, David Harvey wrote: > > > On May 2, 2008, at 4:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Funny this should come up. William just gave a take-home midterm >> in which we had to predict the runtime for various computatio

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread David Harvey
On May 2, 2008, at 4:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Funny this should come up. William just gave a take-home midterm > in which we had to predict the runtime for various computations, so > I wrote some generic code to help. According to my code, and some > liberal assumptions, it shou

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread boothby
Funny this should come up. William just gave a take-home midterm in which we had to predict the runtime for various computations, so I wrote some generic code to help. According to my code, and some liberal assumptions, it should take 5.1 days. I've attached the plots that show the curves I f

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 2, 2008, at 3:45 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > The complexity mostly depends on the precision one uses in > > computing a certain Euler product approximation to zeta > > and also the number of factors in the

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread David Harvey
On May 2, 2008, at 3:45 PM, William Stein wrote: > The complexity mostly depends on the precision one uses in > computing a certain Euler product approximation to zeta > and also the number of factors in the product. If you look > at the PARI source code the comments do *not* inspire confidence

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:41 PM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 2, 2008, at 3:40 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > Also, when I tried > > > > bernoulli(10^7+2) > > > > directly in Sage there were a couple of issues that arose, since > > that command > > is much more

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread David Harvey
On May 2, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > I think the asymptotics aren't going to go our way if we use pari. It > takes 11s for 10^5 and I've been sitting here for quite a few minutes > and didn't get 10^6 yet. So far I have on a 2.6GHz opteron: sage: time x = bernoulli(6) Wall time:

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:10 PM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ok, so the docstring reaveals (1) that the pari version is "by far the > fastest" as I suspected, but also that for n>5 that we use a gp > interface rather than the pari library " since the C-library interface > t

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Hart
I think the asymptotics aren't going to go our way if we use pari. It takes 11s for 10^5 and I've been sitting here for quite a few minutes and didn't get 10^6 yet. I think pari uses the zeta function to compute bernoulli numbers. If I'm reading the code right it first computes 1/zeta(n) using t

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread didier deshommes
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:40 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Fredrik Johansson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Oleksandr Pavlyk reports on the Wolfram Blog that he has computed the > > 10 millionth Bernoulli number using Mathematica: >

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread David Harvey
On May 2, 2008, at 3:40 PM, William Stein wrote: > Also, when I tried > > bernoulli(10^7+2) > > directly in Sage there were a couple of issues that arose, since > that command > is much more designed for smaller input. I fixed those small issues. > I guess we'll see in a week .. I hope

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Fredrik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oleksandr Pavlyk reports on the Wolfram Blog that he has computed the > 10 millionth Bernoulli number using Mathematica: > > http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/04/29/today-we-broke-the-bernoulli-record-from-the-analyti

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread John Cremona
Thanks. I thought I had something old, but it's not *that* old! John 2008/5/2 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On May 2, 9:04 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > Now would I know non-SSE hardware if I met it in the wild? > > On Linux: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 2, 9:04 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi John, > Now would I know non-SSE hardware if I met it in the wild? On Linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/scratch/mabshoff/release-cycle/sage-3.0.1.rc0$ cat / proc/cpuinfo | grep flags flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 a

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Fredrik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oleksandr Pavlyk reports on the Wolfram Blog that he has computed the > 10 millionth Bernoulli number using Mathematica: > > http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/04/29/today-we-broke-the-bernoulli-record-from-the-analyti

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread John Cremona
ok, so the docstring reaveals (1) that the pari version is "by far the fastest" as I suspected, but also that for n>5 that we use a gp interface rather than the pari library " since the C-library interface to PARI is limited in memory for individual operations" -- whatever that means!

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread John Cremona
Now would I know non-SSE hardware if I met it in the wild? John 2008/5/2 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On May 2, 8:06 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Steal the CPU detection code from ATLAS and use that to test to see if > > the proces

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread John Cremona
I might take a look at this, as there are some ways fo computing B nos which are very much faster tha others, and not everyone knows them. Pari has something respectable, certainly. John 2008/5/2 mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It takes about 30 seconds on my machine to get the 10^5 Bernoulli

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread David Harvey
On May 2, 2008, at 2:56 PM, mhampton wrote: > It takes about 30 seconds on my machine to get the 10^5 Bernoulli > number. The mathematica blog says it took a "development" version of > mathematica 6 days to do the 10^7 calc. So it would probably take > some work, but we are not that badly off

[sage-devel] Re: Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread mhampton
It takes about 30 seconds on my machine to get the 10^5 Bernoulli number. The mathematica blog says it took a "development" version of mathematica 6 days to do the 10^7 calc. So it would probably take some work, but we are not that badly off as is. -M. Hampton On May 2, 12:34 pm, Fredrik Joha

[sage-devel] Re: scilab

2008-05-02 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:31 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Very interestingly, somebody posted that the next major release of > SciLab will be > GPL-compatible. See > http://www.scilab.org/download/index_download.php?page=CHANGES_5.0-beta-1 > > This means there is pot

[sage-devel] Computing large Bernoulli numbers

2008-05-02 Thread Fredrik Johansson
Oleksandr Pavlyk reports on the Wolfram Blog that he has computed the 10 millionth Bernoulli number using Mathematica: http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/04/29/today-we-broke-the-bernoulli-record-from-the-analytical-engine-to-mathematica/ How does sage's Bernoulli number implementation compare? I'd lik

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 2, 8:06 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Stein wrote: Hi, > Steal the CPU detection code from ATLAS and use that to test to see if > the processor we're running on is the same as the processor we compiled > for?  That seems like a bit much. You really don't want to do

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread root
>> I can try to build a Sage binary on Fedora 3 if you wish >> but I'm not optimistic. I know that my Fedora 5 could not >> build Sage because the compiler was too old. > >The compiler wasn't too old, it was *borken*, i.e. "internal compiler >error". IIRC it was some gcc 4.1.0 and as well all know

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > Michael and Sage-devel, > > This is happening a lot (see below): > > > I was trying to create a random matrix with single digit integer > entries using > > B = random_matrix(ZZ,100,x=0,x=9) > > > > I get the following error and the worksheet seems to break down afte

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 2, 9:18 pm, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alfredo, Hi Tim, > I can try to build a Sage binary on Fedora 3 if you wish > but I'm not optimistic. I know that my Fedora 5 could not > build Sage because the compiler was too old. The compiler wasn't too old, it was *borken*, i.e. "inter

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 2, 7:56 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael and Sage-devel, No need to single me out - I read sage-devel ;) > This is happening a lot (see below): >  We really need to find a way to *immediately* report that > "this Sage binary doesn't work on your processor" ASA

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread root
Alfredo, I can try to build a Sage binary on Fedora 3 if you wish but I'm not optimistic. I know that my Fedora 5 could not build Sage because the compiler was too old. Fedora 3 likely has the same issue. Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send emai

[sage-devel] Fwd: Does anyone else have this matrix problem

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
Michael and Sage-devel, This is happening a lot (see below): > I was trying to create a random matrix with single digit integer entries using > B = random_matrix(ZZ,100,x=0,x=9) > > I get the following error and the worksheet seems to break down after that. > /usr/local/sage/local/bin/s

[sage-devel] Re: #2755 related doctest failure in totallyreal_rel.py

2008-05-02 Thread Nick Alexander
On 2-May-08, at 9:46 AM, John Voight wrote: > > Is there a canonical way to sort elements of an algebraic number > field? I can think of one or two, but this is a needlessly costly > thing to do, IMHO. You're asking for a canonical representation, which amounts to a canonical choice of a defi

[sage-devel] Re: #2755 related doctest failure in totallyreal_rel.py

2008-05-02 Thread John Voight
Is there a canonical way to sort elements of an algebraic number field? I can think of one or two, but this is a needlessly costly thing to do, IMHO. JV --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this

[sage-devel] scilab

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
Hi, In that reddit discussion of my blog post I mentioned that SciLab (http://www.scilab.org/) is released under a custom GPL-incompatible license when somebody asked about SciLab. Also I mentioned that SciLab violates the GPL by linking in readline. Very interestingly, somebody posted that the

[sage-devel] Re: Debian package build failure for gfan with 3.0.1alpha1

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Abshoff
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I attempted to build the 3.0.1alpha1 packages for Debian, but it doesn't > build, apparently due to some type errors. The build log is attached -- > I'd appreciate any guesses as to what's going on here. > >-Tim

[sage-devel] Debian package build failure for gfan with 3.0.1alpha1

2008-05-02 Thread Timothy G Abbott
fan_0.3-0sagep3~debian4.1 on debuild by sbuild/amd64 0.57.0 Build started at 20080502-1206 ** gfan_0.3-0sagep3.dsc exists in .; copying to chroot ** Using build dependencies supplied by package: Build-Depends: cdbs (>

[sage-devel] Re: Reddit-ed

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FYI: William's ISSAC abstract is on reddit's frontpage right now. > > http://reddit.com/info/6hvsn/comments/ > > Martin > Since it seems to spark discussion I posted it to digg: http://digg.com/software/Can_Th

[sage-devel] Re: #2755 related doctest failure in totallyreal_rel.py

2008-05-02 Thread mhampton
This looks like a dict was involved at some point - maybe just sorting the list would be enough? On May 2, 8:23 am, "Michael Abshoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:22 PM, John Voight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, the ordering of the elements does not at all affect th

[sage-devel] Re: #2755 related doctest failure in totallyreal_rel.py

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Abshoff
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:22 PM, John Voight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, the ordering of the elements does not at all affect the > correctness of the output--the most mathematically correct thing would > be to output a set. This change can be due to any number of things, > but it's probably

[sage-devel] Re: #2755 related doctest failure in totallyreal_rel.py

2008-05-02 Thread John Voight
Yes, the ordering of the elements does not at all affect the correctness of the output--the most mathematically correct thing would be to output a set. This change can be due to any number of things, but it's probably not worth ascertaining the exact cause. JV --~--~-~--~~-

[sage-devel] Re: Reddit-ed

2008-05-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FYI: William's ISSAC abstract is on reddit's frontpage right now. > > http://reddit.com/info/6hvsn/comments/ > > Martin > Wow, it seems to have definitely touched a nerve. There are also now a number of comments on

[sage-devel] Reddit-ed

2008-05-02 Thread Martin Albrecht
FYI: William's ISSAC abstract is on reddit's frontpage right now. http://reddit.com/info/6hvsn/comments/ Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 2, 2:02 pm, "Alfredo Portes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  I think the idea to use a Live CD is a very good one. It is good when > >  people have the opportunity to try sage right on the spot. > > Is there anyone in

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage Enhancement Proposal: Lattice Modules

2008-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 29, 10:00 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon's vision of lattices would include the ones I mentioned before > (f.g. but not necessarily free R-modules where R is a Dedekind Domain, > with one or more embeddings into RR^n or CC^n). > > In another direction: Jon, to what exte

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread Alfredo Portes
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the idea to use a Live CD is a very good one. It is good when > people have the opportunity to try sage right on the spot. Is there anyone in the list that can share binaries of Sage 3.x for Fedora Core 3 (a higher

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: sloppy mult and div in quaddouble?

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Abshoff
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I decided to go ahead and open a ticket for it with a patch for spkg- > install. > I noticed that the CXXFLAGS needed a bit of spring cleaning as well. > The ticket is #3079. I noticed and saw the CXXFLAGS issue. That puzzle

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: sloppy mult and div in quaddouble?

2008-05-02 Thread Francois
I decided to go ahead and open a ticket for it with a patch for spkg- install. I noticed that the CXXFLAGS needed a bit of spring cleaning as well. The ticket is #3079. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubsc

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.1-alpha1 released!

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Abshoff
John Cremona wrote: Hi, > Thanks for the explanations! > > For my own build, I recovered by doing "sage -ba" as previously > reported. So I don't know whether the original problem (running sage > for the first time after an apparently successful build) was caused by > the SAGE_PBUILD thing or no

[sage-devel] Re: Can't install experimental packages

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 1, 5:01 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > There are two problems here: > > a) somebody changed the default 404 error page [we know who did it, > but no need to name names] > b) consequently the download_package command fails since it no longer > recognizes the 404 page

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Abshoff
Harald Schilly wrote: > On May 2, 3:19 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >> Looks good to me. I think Python is actually in the top 5 languages >> now, isn't it? >> > > just for completeness, released today: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 > - Readers' Choic

[sage-devel] #2755 related doctest failure in totallyreal_rel.py

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Abshoff
[CC to sage-devel - this email somehow didn't make it on first try :(] Hi guys, When I apply both patches from #2755 to my 3.0.1.rc0 merge tree I get the following failure in totallyreal_rel.py: sage -t devel/sage/sage/rings/number_field/totallyreal_rel.py *

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: mercurial --> plain text --> mercurial

2008-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 29, 7:14 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:53 AM, mabshoff > Hi, > > I've made a trac ticket for this, since it seems to have got stalled: > >    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3052 > > William Robert, I have come across a case that

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread Simon King
Dear William, I am sorry about my previous post, since it was out-dated. My comment did only refer to message number 25 in this thread and to the abstract version at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/abstract.pdf Now, we have http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/abstract3.pdf,

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread Simon King
Dear William, On May 2, 12:23 am, "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The previous abstract (the second one?, definitely not the first) > seemed like a good balance to me: What is Sage? What can it do? I agree. The second abstract contains the message (among other things): 1. "If you have

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 1, 2008, at 5:49 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Robert Bradshaw > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On May 1, 2008, at 2:51 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wrote a new version of my ISSAC talk abstract. What do you think: >>> >>> http://sage.math.

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-02 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 2, 3:19 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks good to me. I think Python is actually in the top 5 languages > now, isn't it? just for completeness, released today: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 - Readers' Choice Awards 2008 / Favorite Scripting Language: Python

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.1-alpha1 released!

2008-05-02 Thread John Cremona
Thanks for the explanations! For my own build, I recovered by doing "sage -ba" as previously reported. So I don't know whether the original problem (running sage for the first time after an apparently successful build) was caused by the SAGE_PBUILD thing or not. Before doing "sage -ba" I also d