[sage-devel] Re: lp_solve spkg

2008-09-24 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Stephen, On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Stephen Hartke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lp_solve has fewer features than GLPK (the GNU Linear Programming Kit), but > I've found that it's usually about as fast as GLPK. Both of the > publicly-available Python bindings for GLPK are being updated t

[sage-devel] lp_solve spkg

2008-09-24 Thread Stephen Hartke
lp_solve is a free linear programming and integer programming solver. The library is written in C, but the developers provide bindings to several languages, including Python. I have created an spkg for installing lp_solve into Sage. The spkg is located at: http://www.math.unl.edu/~shartke2/files

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread mhampton
All tests passed on my intel mac (10.4). -M. Hampton On Sep 24, 5:42 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch > of things got in the way during the day. Sources are in the usual > place at > > http://sage.math

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 6:02 pm, "Andrzej Giniewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Built fine, tested fine with one non-repeatable so far "time-out", in > plot.py - seems time-out is also reason for 2 failures mentioned on > that 32bit fedora... (looking at that version that passed, 335 seconds > is quite some)

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 3:59 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mabshoff wrote: > > Hello folks, Hi Jaap, > > this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch > > of things got in the way during the day. Sources are in the usual > > place at > > >http://sage.math.washington.edu

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
Built fine, tested fine with one non-repeatable so far "time-out", in plot.py - seems time-out is also reason for 2 failures mentioned on that 32bit fedora... (looking at that version that passed, 335 seconds is quite some)... is there already command-line option to set longer times on slower mac

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread David Joyner
Builds and passed sage -testall on amd64 hardy heron. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:42 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello folks, > > this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch > of things got in the way during the day. Sources are in the usual > place at > >

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread root
>> Hi.  Dan Grayson sent Greg and me a message letting us know about this >> discussion and I thought it might be helpful for if I joined the >> discussion as one of the managing editors. > > > >> I'm delighted that the journal has generated so much discussion. > >Yes, I think that forces between

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 3:45 pm, ataylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amelia, > Hi.  Dan Grayson sent Greg and me a message letting us know about this > discussion and I thought it might be helpful for if I joined the > discussion as one of the managing editors. > I'm delighted that the journal has gen

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > Hello folks, > > this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch > of things got in the way during the day. Sources are in the usual > place at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.1.3/sage-3.1.3.alpha1.tar > On Fedora 9 32 b

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread ataylor
Hi. Dan Grayson sent Greg and me a message letting us know about this discussion and I thought it might be helpful for if I joined the discussion as one of the managing editors. We had a long discussion, as Mike Hansen mentioned, about how to proceed. Our idea is that this journal will eventual

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:36 PM, mabshoff wrote: > On Sep 24, 2:10 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:02 PM, mabshoff wrote: >> >>> but I thought that the new >>> coercion model allows us to fix the above problem when coercion mv >>> polynomial rings with loads

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 2:10 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:02 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > > > > On Sep 24, 9:48 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:42 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > > Hi Robert, > > >>> What is new in alpha1: > > >>>  *

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:02 PM, mabshoff wrote: > On Sep 24, 9:48 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:42 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > Hi Robert, > >>> What is new in alpha1: >> >>> * Robert Bradshaw: more new coercion merges (causes speed >>> regression >>> in sr.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:42 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > Hello folks, > > this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch > of things got in the way during the day. Sources are in the usual > place at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.1.3/ > sage-3.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 9:48 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:42 AM, mabshoff wrote: Hi Robert, > > What is new in alpha1: > > >  * Robert Bradshaw: more new coercion merges (causes speed regression > > in sr.py by about 40%, but since that sucks anyway we can bear wit

[sage-devel] Re: Patch against eclib to allow using gmake

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 7:56 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seehttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4191. Cool, this is a small step to make building Sage by executing "gmake" instead of "make" work and I will review the spkg in the near future. Making gmake as the invoking make utili

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
Builds & test reports: all well on 32-bit ubuntu and 64-bit Suse. John 2008/9/24 Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:42 AM, mabshoff wrote: > >> Hello folks, >> >> this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch >> of things got in the way during t

[sage-devel] Re: how to make tut and ref

2008-09-24 Thread Carl Witty
On Sep 23, 8:14 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks Michael, that worked! > > > just to know... what does "source local/bin/sage-env" do? > > > I will start the translation as soon as I can. > > > 'source' is a shell built-in that reads shell commands from the named   > > file (un

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread iSAGE
The small font copyright notice at the bottom of their webpage only says "© Copyright 2008. Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry. All rights reserved. " that is, without the "Macaulay 2". Bhalchandra Thatte thatte stats ox ac uk On Sep 24, 5:49 pm, "Mike Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:08 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:04 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> What exactly is the relationship between that journal and Macaulay 2? > > I _speculate_ that the relationship is that all the editors

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:42 AM, mabshoff wrote: > Hello folks, > > this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch > of things got in the way during the day. Sources are in the usual > place at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.1.3/ > sage-3.1.3

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
2008/9/24 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:04 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> What exactly is the relationship between that journal and Macaulay 2? > > I _speculate_ that the relationship is that all the editors are also > the authors or big users

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:04 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What exactly is the relationship between that journal and Macaulay 2? I _speculate_ that the relationship is that all the editors are also the authors or big users of M2, and that all code that accompanies the journal ar

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
What exactly is the relationship between that journal and Macaulay 2? Or between it and Sage, apart from its one-letter-too-short acronym? John 2008/9/24 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Daniel R. Grayson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, Sep

[sage-devel] Re: a cython program (elements_in_linear_span)

2008-09-24 Thread cesarnda
ok, I'm willing to contribute the code under GPL V2+ (or a compatible license) to the Sage library, but I would like to know more about the doctests and the potentailly documentation to be added. On Sep 24, 5:34 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > span and submodule are defined for fr

[sage-devel] Fwd: New Journal

2008-09-24 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel R. Grayson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:17 AM Subject: New Journal To: "2 mailing list\"@math.uiuc.edu" <"Macaulay> a message forwarded from Amelia Taylor: -

[sage-devel] Re: Patch against eclib to allow using gmake

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4191 . John 2008/9/7 Arnaud Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/9/6 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> >> On Sep 6, 12:02 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear Arnaud, >> >> Hi, >> >>> This is really a sage building issue so s

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in url prefix

2008-09-24 Thread Pavel Panchekha
I'll work on a quick hackish patch. could take a bit, though, especially since i'm working on another project atm. Timothy - what is the timeframe for the templates? It should be trivial to implement this once templates are done, but if that's far in the future, I'll work on putting together a pa

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
Someone else needs to review http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3102 since I did, had some issues, but the author gfurnish disagreed with me so it's now back at "needs review". John 2008/9/24 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello folks, > > this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wa

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in interpreting the arguments of some functions

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
2008/9/24 Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think that both pi and I are universal constants in sage. > > sage: zeta_symmetric(pi) > 0.583573760763662 > sage: zeta_symmetric(1/2) > 0.497120778188314 > sage: zeta_symmetric(1/2+I) > exception > sage: zeta_symmetric(1/2+CC(I)) > 0.485757429670983

[sage-devel] Inconsistency in interpreting the arguments of some functions

2008-09-24 Thread Michel
I think that both pi and I are universal constants in sage. sage: zeta_symmetric(pi) 0.583573760763662 sage: zeta_symmetric(1/2) 0.497120778188314 sage: zeta_symmetric(1/2+I) exception sage: zeta_symmetric(1/2+CC(I)) 0.485757429670983 - 1.38777878078145e-17*I Conclusion: it seems that coerci

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
2008/9/24 Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wednesday 24 September 2008, John Cremona wrote: >> About reviews: we put in place a system of editors. Does every >> ticket have an editor, who is informed when there are patches to be >> reviewed, so that he/she can ask suitable people to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 4:37 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi John, > About reviews:   we put in place a system of editors.  Does every > ticket have an editor, who is informed when there are patches to be > reviewed, so that he/she can ask suitable people to do the reviewing? > It does not s

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 24 September 2008, John Cremona wrote: > About reviews: we put in place a system of editors. Does every > ticket have an editor, who is informed when there are patches to be > reviewed, so that he/she can ask suitable people to do the reviewing? > It does not seem quite right to me

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
About reviews: we put in place a system of editors. Does every ticket have an editor, who is informed when there are patches to be reviewed, so that he/she can ask suitable people to do the reviewing? It does not seem quite right to me for patch authors to solicit reviews themselves -- though o

[sage-devel] Re: does PARI know the primes up to 35?

2008-09-24 Thread David Harvey
On Sep 23, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Craig Citro wrote: > >> sage: K. = CyclotomicField(23) >> sage: K.class_number() >> >> ... >> >> PariError: not enough precomputed primes, need primelimit ~ (35) >> > > Hah, that's pretty hilarious. :) Actually, what it's telling you is > that it needs primes up to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 3:48 am, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, Hi, > I would really like to get a (subset of) these tickets into 3.1.3. They > implement faster multivariate polynomial arithmetic over absolute number > fields, the integers and (lame, slow!) Gröbner bases over Z and

[sage-devel] Re: hmm doc bug

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 3:45 am, mapb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Hi, > The fourth argument in the following routine is called > "emission_symbols", while the INPUTS section reports "emission_state". thanks for the report. We are tracking the issue at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4189 Cheers,

[sage-devel] hmm doc bug

2008-09-24 Thread mapb
The fourth argument in the following routine is called "emission_symbols", while the INPUTS section reports "emission_state". hmm.DiscreteHiddenMarkovModel(A, B, pi=None, emission_symbols=None, name=None, normalize=True) n INPUTS: A -- square matrix of doubles; the state change proba

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi there, I would really like to get a (subset of) these tickets into 3.1.3. They implement faster multivariate polynomial arithmetic over absolute number fields, the integers and (lame, slow!) Gröbner bases over Z and Z/nZ. As this feature was requested quite often, I'd hate to see these patc

[sage-devel] Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
Hello folks, this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch of things got in the way during the day. Sources are in the usual place at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.1.3/sage-3.1.3.alpha1.tar What is new in alpha1: * Robert Bradshaw: more

[sage-devel] Re: a cython program (elements_in_linear_span)

2008-09-24 Thread John Cremona
span and submodule are defined for free modules over a PID only. Perhaps there definition could be moved up to FreeModule_generic. There could still be special code for PIDs, for example the part which echelonises bases. I don't know what the equivalent of an echelonised basis is for modules over

[sage-devel] Re: a cython program (elements_in_linear_span)

2008-09-24 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:27 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 24, 12:16 am, cesarnda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> I have coded a program in cython called "elements_in_linear_span" that >> generates a set of codewords from a matrix (a matrix space must be >> defined) ov

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-24 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 at 12:37AM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > can you merge the patch from #4180, export SAGE_PEXPECT_LOG=yes and > run the some doctest that tends to do something stupid until you hit a > bug? Then put up the interesting log in $DOT_SAGE/pexpect_logs > (depending on how many there are li

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 12:30 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 at 03:52PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > > There are two possibilities here: > > >  a) upgrade to prerelease 4 of clisp 2.47 > >  b) switch to ecl > > > (a) is less work for now and there are some fixes in there that solv

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-24 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 at 03:52PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > There are two possibilities here: > > a) upgrade to prerelease 4 of clisp 2.47 > b) switch to ecl > > (a) is less work for now and there are some fixes in there that solve > some issues on Solaris/Sparc, so my hope is that it will fix thos

[sage-devel] Re: a cython program (elements_in_linear_span)

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 12:16 am, cesarnda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > I have coded a program in cython called "elements_in_linear_span" that > generates a set of codewords from a matrix (a matrix space must be > defined) over a ring of intergers. This function almost does what > Magma does with: > > >

[sage-devel] a cython program (elements_in_linear_span)

2008-09-24 Thread cesarnda
I have coded a program in cython called "elements_in_linear_span" that generates a set of codewords from a matrix (a matrix space must be defined) over a ring of intergers. This function almost does what Magma does with: > R:=RingOfIntegers(9); > code := LinearCode(sub 0, 0],[0, 0, 4, 5, 0], [0,