[sage-devel] Re: JavaScript Graph editor

2009-05-07 Thread Rob Beezer
On May 7, 11:13 pm, Rado wrote: > How does it handle intensive JS computations like : > > http://www.chiptune.com/starfield/starfield.html OK, Starfield is pretty fun. ;-) And works great on another 64-bit laptop I just tried. But is pathetic on my 64-bit desktop machine - I couldn't even tell

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-05-07 Thread Lucio Lastra
Hi Rob, does this problem happens systematically (each time you run sagelwlcd after typing "sudo startx") or just happened to you once? I tried in several machines and didn't have any troubles at all. I'm downloading sagelwlcd to check if there's no data corruption and research about what your pr

[sage-devel] Re: JavaScript Graph editor

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Rado wrote: > > That is weird. Unfortunately I don't have a 64bit OS to test it. > Processing JS is just a parser that parses processing (java) code and > runs it as JS. I tried to write everything in JS but its major pain in > the butt, since js has very weird wa

[sage-devel] Re: JavaScript Graph editor

2009-05-07 Thread Rado
That is weird. Unfortunately I don't have a 64bit OS to test it. Processing JS is just a parser that parses processing (java) code and runs it as JS. I tried to write everything in JS but its major pain in the butt, since js has very weird way of doing classes (they are not even called classes). H

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-05-07 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Lucio, Got a command prompt, entered startx, chose Sage off the fluxbox menu. Got a terminal window and the Sage banner. A few seconds later and the terminal window closed. Now every time I choose Sage off the menu, the terminal just blinks and immediately closes. Running ./sage from a fr

[sage-devel] Re: JavaScript Graph editor

2009-05-07 Thread Rob Beezer
Looking real good. I like the red edges prior to deletion when you drag outside the canvas. I've now run this on two machines - one is 32-bit, one 64-bit. Otherwise pretty much the same - recent Firefox on KUbuntu, approx 3GHz chips. The editor is very crisp and robust on the 32-bit machine. O

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > >> Indeed... but the OP claimed that a jpeg couldn't be a derived work of >> gimp because it's not a C++ program, which is a non sequitur. > > Do you actually think a JPEG is a derived for of GIMP or do you > disagree with how I was arguing?

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 7, 2009, at 8:53 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >> >> Most of all, everyone, please go read the damn GPL! > > Out of curiosity, does anyone on the list actually know a lawyer at > FSF? I wouldn't be surprised if someone does with all the Boston > connections. I think (hope) that the restrictions

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread kcrisman
> > Most of all, everyone, please go read the damn GPL! Out of curiosity, does anyone on the list actually know a lawyer at FSF? I wouldn't be surprised if someone does with all the Boston connections. If so, getting even a small piece of FSF's "official" position, without all the IANAL stuff,

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Granger
> Indeed... but the OP claimed that a jpeg couldn't be a derived work of > gimp because it's not a C++ program, which is a non sequitur. Do you actually think a JPEG is a derived for of GIMP or do you disagree with how I was arguing? If you merely disagree with my argument, please don't misquote

[sage-devel] Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-05-07 Thread Lucio Lastra
Hi everybody, I built a LiveCD with Sage that intends to be minimal in all senses. It has some rough edges yet and much to be improved, that's why I invite you to download it from here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/luciolastra/isos/v2/ try it out and give me any feedback (bugs, possibl

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Robert Dodier wrote: > Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: >> Auch... then, if I take GIMP source code, and carefully translate it >> 100% into, say... lisp, then the resulting work is not a C++ program, >> and therefore not a derived work. > > Careful. I'm pretty sure a tran

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > Auch... then, if I take GIMP source code, and carefully translate it > 100% into, say... lisp, then the resulting work is not a C++ program, > and therefore not a derived work. Careful. I'm pretty sure a translation (be it from natural language or computer language) is

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
Brian Granger wrote: > Are you arguing that jpeg's produced by GIMP are all GPL'd? No. > I agree that it is definitely possible to release "non-programs", such > as JPEGs, under the GPL. OK, I misunderstood. I thought you were claiming just the opposite. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~

[sage-devel] Re: JavaScript Graph editor

2009-05-07 Thread Rado
New version is up: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~rkirov2/processing/grapheditor.html The short changelog: 1) By popular demand, when you drag a vertex out of the page the edges turn red to indicate you are going to lose it and it is not erased until you release the button. 2) There is an accompanyin

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:10 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > > > On May 7, 5:04 pm, Jason Grout wrote: >> William Stein wrote: > > > >> > wst...@sage:~$ ginsh >> > ginsh - GiNaC Interactive Shell (ginac V1.4.1) >> > ... >> >> sqrt(2)^2; >> > 2 >> >> > I've added this to the wiki. >> >> It might be usefu

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 5:04 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > wst...@sage:~$ ginsh > > ginsh - GiNaC Interactive Shell (ginac V1.4.1) > > ... > >> sqrt(2)^2; > > 2 > > > I've added this to the wiki. > > It might be useful, if possible, to make sage -ginsh launch ginsh, or > something simi

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> On May 7, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics >>> ready for Sage 4.0. With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On May 7, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics >> ready for Sage 4.0.  With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do >> the final push. >> >> Ther

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > > Gee... is "Sage" a trademark? Yes, "Sage" is a trademark. It's not mine though. It is explicitly listed here: http://www.sagenorthamerica.com/copyright_trademarks/ Another company changed their name to Sage software and write on th

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread root
> Gee... is "Sage" a trademark? > > Besides, I don't think a trademark is that strong... E.g. "firefox" is > a trademark of mozilla. Debian doesn't want to be bound by the terms > of use of said trademark, so the rename the program to "iceweasel". > All visible occurrences of the name "firefox" a

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
Gee... is "Sage" a trademark? Besides, I don't think a trademark is that strong... E.g. "firefox" is a trademark of mozilla. Debian doesn't want to be bound by the terms of use of said trademark, so the rename the program to "iceweasel". All visible occurrences of the name "firefox" are replaced

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > * The JPEG stands on its own and can be "used" independently of GIMP. Beware... copyright law is more about "copying" and "distribution", than about "use". Besides, when I post a notebook, or publish a sage script in a book, I'm not using Sa

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 7, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics > ready for Sage 4.0. With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do > the final push. > > There are currently a lot of printing errors since Pynac/GiNaC prints >

[sage-devel] Re: return type for coefficient,

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 7, 2009, at 2:15 PM, John Cremona wrote: > It is a documented feature -- look at the docstring which says > > def coefficient(self, degrees): > """ > Return the coefficient of the variables with the degrees > specified in the python dictionary \code{degrees}.

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Granger
>> sage-ultralight must have the same name as sage.  Then you get into >> copyright/trademark related issues (the name "sage" is already taken). >>  Just the same I could create a GUI toolkit named "Qt" that was also >> released under the SACL license, but you can guess what would happen. > > Inco

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Tom Boothby
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > He, he.  For the above script to run in sage-ultralight, > sage-ultralight must have the same name as sage.  Then you get into > copyright/trademark related issues (the name "sage" is already taken). >  Just the same I could create a GUI too

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
2009/5/7 Brian Granger : > >>> I disagree.  A jpeg or .doc file is not source code in any sense of >>> the word, thus the GPL is completely irrelevant (I think we agree on >>> that). >> >> That simply isn't so. To quote the GPL: >> "This License applies to any program or other work ..." >> "The "P

[sage-devel] Re: return type for coefficient,

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
It is a documented feature -- look at the docstring which says def coefficient(self, degrees): """ Return the coefficient of the variables with the degrees specified in the python dictionary \code{degrees}. Mathematically, this is the coefficient in the base r

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Alfredo Portes wrote: > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> That FAQ entry which you partially quoted concludes with "A >> consequence is that if you choose to use GPL'd Perl modules or Java >> classes in your program, you must release the

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Alfredo Portes
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, William Stein wrote: > That FAQ entry which you partially quoted concludes with "A > consequence is that if you choose to use GPL'd Perl modules or Java > classes in your program, you must release the program in a > GPL-compatible way, regardless of the license us

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Granger
>> I disagree.  A jpeg or .doc file is not source code in any sense of >> the word, thus the GPL is completely irrelevant (I think we agree on >> that). > > That simply isn't so. To quote the GPL: > "This License applies to any program or other work ..." > "The "Program", below, refers to any such

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Tom Boothby wrote: > I just found this thread, sorry for weighing in late. > > Note: this is a light-hearted response to a topic which I consider > very grave.  It's been claimed that the script > > from sage import Integer > print Integer(2)+Integer(2) > > must b

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Granger
> Note: this is a light-hearted response to a topic which I consider > very grave.  It's been claimed that the script > > from sage import Integer > print Integer(2)+Integer(2) > > must be GPL'd.   I claim that the above is a sage-ultralight script. > I've attached an independent implementation of

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread Yann
On May 7, 9:24 pm, John Cremona wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to explain, Jason. > > 2009/5/7 Jason Grout : > > > > > > > John Cremona wrote: > >> 2009/5/7 Nick Alexander : > sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) > 4.±1 > >>> -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. > > >>> As for the fact

[sage-devel] return type for coefficient,

2009-05-07 Thread Soroosh Yazdani
Hi, this might be a design decision, so I haven't filed a bug report for it yet. However, it seems that coefficient is returning the wrong type when it's called on multinomials. Here is an example code: sage: K.=QQ[] sage: f = x^3+y^3+z^3 sage: f.coefficient([3,0,0]).parent() Multivariate Polynom

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
Thanks for taking the time to explain, Jason. 2009/5/7 Jason Grout : > > John Cremona wrote: >> 2009/5/7 Nick Alexander : sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.±1 >>> -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. >>> >>> As for the fact that 4.? is confusing to people who know nothing about >>> sage,

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
John Cremona wrote: > 2009/5/7 Nick Alexander : >>> sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) >>> 4.±1 >> -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. >> >> As for the fact that 4.? is confusing to people who know nothing about >> sage, that does not concern me in the slightest. I find lots of >> things that I know

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Tom Boothby
I just found this thread, sorry for weighing in late. Note: this is a light-hearted response to a topic which I consider very grave. It's been claimed that the script from sage import Integer print Integer(2)+Integer(2) must be GPL'd. I claim that the above is a sage-ultralight script. I've a

[sage-devel] Re: loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:06 AM, kcrisman wrote: > >> > Because graphics objects don't implement equality (there are no __eq__ >> > or __cmp__ methods defined), so the default implementation is used, >> > which is "is" (object identity, pointer equality). >> >> > Carl >> >> Ergo, you should imple

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
2009/5/7 Nick Alexander : > >> sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) >> 4.±1 > > -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. > > As for the fact that 4.? is confusing to people who know nothing about > sage, that does not concern me in the slightest.  I find lots of > things that I know nothing about confusing!

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread Nick Alexander
> sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) > 4.±1 -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. As for the fact that 4.? is confusing to people who know nothing about sage, that does not concern me in the slightest. I find lots of things that I know nothing about confusing! Nick --~--~-~--~~--

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Yann wrote: > > On May 7, 3:38 am, Nick Alexander wrote: >> > 1.234567? >> >> +1 >> >> > 1.234567?1 is more >> >> -1 >> >> Nick > > +1 on this example... > I don't want to look stubborn but let's try another vote (it´s my last > comment on this thread...) > > sag

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: [...] > > Delete constants.so: > > $ rm devel/sage/build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/sage/symbolic/constants* > $ rm devel/sage/build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/sage/symbolic/constants* > $ rm devel/sage/build/sage/symbolic/constants.so > > Then > > teragon:sage-3.4.2 wstein$

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Burcin, On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > I guess the first patch is a collection of my patches sitting on trac, > so I didn't read it. Is this right? Yep. > Some minor comments after reading the 2nd patch: > >  * does new_Expression_from_GEx() really need the new paren

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> >> Jaap Spies wrote: >>> Mike Hansen wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mike >>> [...] If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in http://sage.math.washington.edu/hom

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread Yann
On May 7, 3:38 am, Nick Alexander wrote: > > 1.234567? > > +1 > > > 1.234567?1 is more > > -1 > > Nick +1 on this example... I don't want to look stubborn but let's try another vote (it´s my last comment on this thread...) sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.? or sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.±1 --~--~-~--

[sage-devel] Re: loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread kcrisman
> > Because graphics objects don't implement equality (there are no __eq__ > > or __cmp__ methods defined), so the default implementation is used, > > which is "is" (object identity, pointer equality). > > > Carl > > Ergo, you should implement __cmp__. Umm... how would I do that? Or is "you" cwi

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Jaap Spies wrote: >> Mike Hansen wrote: >> >> Hi Mike >> [...] >>> If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in >>> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/symbolics/.  These should >>> install and apply cleanly t

[sage-devel] Re: loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Carl Witty wrote: > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:01 AM, kcrisman wrote: >> I am hoping to help the push to 75% by adding some doctests to some of >> the plotting primitives.  But for some reason, the following always >> occurs: >> >> sage: G = some graphics object >

[sage-devel] Re: ideas involving sage+maple?

2009-05-07 Thread Bill Page
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > > I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at the > recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how feasible > they are. > I guess you meant "Maple developers"? > (1) One Maple developer suggested that th

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
On May 5, 8:05 pm, Brian Granger wrote: > > A sage worksheet is no more a derived work of Sage than a jpeg would > > be a derived work of Photoshop/GIMP or a .doc file would be a derived > > work of MS Office or OpenOffice. > > I disagree. A jpeg or .doc file is not source code in any sense of

[sage-devel] Re: loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread Carl Witty
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:01 AM, kcrisman wrote: > I am hoping to help the push to 75% by adding some doctests to some of > the plotting primitives.  But for some reason, the following always > occurs: > > sage: G = some graphics object > sage: G == loads(dumps(G)) > False > > Nonetheless, no matt

[sage-devel] Re: Torsion Subgroups of Elliptic Curves over Number Fields

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
I noticed something in the code i wrote which can be improved. This is something which was not in Chris Wuthrich's original implementation, so it is my fault. Here's what we do: (1) find an upper bound on the torsion order, i.e. a positive integer N such that the torsion order is certainly a di

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
Jaap Spies wrote: > Mike Hansen wrote: > > Hi Mike > [...] >> If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/symbolics/. These should >> install and apply cleanly to Sage 3.4.2. >> > > I tried applying to sage-3.4.2, got: > [

[sage-devel] Re: ideas involving sage+maple?

2009-05-07 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > > On Thu, 7 May 2009 10:32:56 -0400 > David Joyner wrote: > >> >> Hi: >> >> I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at >> the recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how >> feasible they are. >> ...

[sage-devel] Re: ideas involving sage+maple?

2009-05-07 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Thu, 7 May 2009 10:32:56 -0400 David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > > I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at > the recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how > feasible they are. > > (1) One Maple developer suggested that the pexpect interface > Sage<-

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Thu, 7 May 2009 04:10:30 -0700 Mike Hansen wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics > ready for Sage 4.0. With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do > the final push. Thank you very much for working on this. I am really amazed to s

[sage-devel] Re: papers using Sage

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: > David Joyner wrote: >> Hello: >> >> At a recent NSF workshop >> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/NSF_WS_ECCAD09_Itinerary.html >> Hoon Hong (managing editor of the J Symb Comp) asked for a list of >> papers written using Sage >> by students. The obvious answer was to look at >>

[sage-devel] Re: papers using Sage

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > Hello: > > At a recent NSF workshop > http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/NSF_WS_ECCAD09_Itinerary.html > Hoon Hong (managing editor of the J Symb Comp) asked for a list of > papers written using Sage > by students. The obvious answer was to look at > http://www.sagemath.org/libr

[sage-devel] ideas involving sage+maple?

2009-05-07 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at the recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how feasible they are. (1) One Maple developer suggested that the pexpect interface Sage<->Maple could be improved using the Openmaple API (http://www.maplesoft.com/

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
One more thing: I have updated http://wiki.sagemath.org/plan/sage-4.0 in the wiki with most of the info here, but it might be a good idea to (a) keep it current as things develop (b) add all missing info about projects, i.e. who is working on coverage, etc (c) clean it up in general Signing o

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 7:16 am, Jaap Spies wrote: > Mike Hansen wrote: > > Hi Mike > ImportError: libpynac-0.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory > Error importing ipy_profile_sage - perhaps you should run %upgrade? > WARNING: Loading of ipy_profile_sage failed. > > What's

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Jaap Spies
Mike Hansen wrote: Hi Mike [...] > If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/symbolics/. These should > install and apply cleanly to Sage 3.4.2. > I tried applying to sage-3.4.2, got: [j...@paix sage-3.4.2]$ ./sage -

[sage-devel] loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread kcrisman
Dear Devel, I am hoping to help the push to 75% by adding some doctests to some of the plotting primitives. But for some reason, the following always occurs: sage: G = some graphics object sage: G == loads(dumps(G)) False Nonetheless, no matter how hard I try, I cannot actually find a differen

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2 released (and this time it is the final one)

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 6:41 am, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi Golam, > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:37 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > > All the bits are in the usual place in > > >  http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.4.2/ > > I am wondering whether pre-compiled binaries of

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2 released (and this time it is the final one)

2009-05-07 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi Michael, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:37 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > All the bits are in the usual place in > >   http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.4.2/ I am wondering whether pre-compiled binaries of sage-3.4.2 for Ubuntu and others will be available? I am thinking of t

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
I spend some time tonight on the gcc 4.4.0 porting problem and there is only little work left to be done: I had resolved all issues in Sage 3.1.2, but neglected to merge all the fixed into subsequent releases. Issues from 3.1.2 (3.4.2): * gmp (gone in MPIR) * ntl (Fixed in ntl-5.4.2.p7.spkg, n

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 12:55 am, davidloeffler wrote: > Can I use this opportunity to request some reviews for modular forms > patches? I decided I'd spend a few afternoons squashing as many easy > modular forms buglets as I could, with the result that there is now a > bunch of tickets that are "[with patch

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 1:11 am, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > Mon May 11:  fix fallout;        malb fix os x libsingular (?) > > > Tue May 12:  sage-4.0.rc1.tar > > > Wed May 13: > > > Thu May 14:  sage-4.0.final.tar > > > Fri May 15:  Release sage-4.0.tar. > > Well, my plan was to update Singular to 3.1 and P

[sage-devel] Re: papers using Sage

2009-05-07 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 7, 2:06 pm, David Joyner wrote: > The impression I got from this conference was that *student* research > activity involving Sage > is a major plus from the NSF's perspective and more precise > quantitative on this might > help people get Sage-related grants. That's an interesting point.

[sage-devel] papers using Sage

2009-05-07 Thread David Joyner
Hello: At a recent NSF workshop http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/NSF_WS_ECCAD09_Itinerary.html Hoon Hong (managing editor of the J Symb Comp) asked for a list of papers written using Sage by students. The obvious answer was to look at http://www.sagemath.org/library/publications.html but (a) there

[sage-devel] Re: Prime Pi

2009-05-07 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:36 PM, victor miller wrote: > Fredrik, I just saw on the SAGE days 15 project list you have the > Meissel-Lehmer-Lagarias-Miller-Odlyzko algorithm.  I still have my old C > code for this, if that would be a good start.  I never looked in detail at > the variants that were

[sage-devel] Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello all, I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics ready for Sage 4.0. With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do the final push. There are currently a lot of printing errors since Pynac/GiNaC prints expressions differently than Maxima does. Some things still n

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread Martin Albrecht
> Mon May 11: fix fallout;malb fix os x libsingular (?) > > Tue May 12: sage-4.0.rc1.tar > > Wed May 13: > > Thu May 14: sage-4.0.final.tar > > Fri May 15: Release sage-4.0.tar. Well, my plan was to update Singular to 3.1 and PolyBoRi to 0.6 during the week mentioned above and I was

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread davidloeffler
Can I use this opportunity to request some reviews for modular forms patches? I decided I'd spend a few afternoons squashing as many easy modular forms buglets as I could, with the result that there is now a bunch of tickets that are "[with patch, needs review]". It would be cool to get some of th