[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.rc1

2009-07-07 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Robert Miller wrote: > > All known issues have been fixed, and all long doctests pass on > sage.math (* -- see below), so there is a chance this could be > sage-4.1. > > The source tarball: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage fails to build on bsd.math

2009-07-07 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Hi William, On 07/07/09 23:43, William Stein wrote: >> I feel embarrassed posting this (since others seem to be able to build >> sage on bsd.math) but I've run into a problem building sage-4.0.2 on >> bsd.math. I've tried twice and both times maxima fails to build with >> the following error: >

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-07 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/08/09 10:56, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> I'll rebuild VTK on my mac tonight and check how that works. > > Many thanks for the update and for working on it. If it cannot be used > offscreen, then I think it's a showstopper, that will create Mac a > second class platform, that is incapable of hos

[sage-devel] sage-4.1.rc1

2009-07-07 Thread Robert Miller
All known issues have been fixed, and all long doctests pass on sage.math (* -- see below), so there is a chance this could be sage-4.1. The source tarball: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc1.tar sage.math binary: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/releas

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-07 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > On 07/01/09 03:22, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> If you have questions about this, I would simply join the visit users list: >>> >>> https://email.ornl.gov/mailman/listinfo/visit-users >> >> Thanks for this, I'll have a look at how to fix/

[sage-devel] Re: Categories restart

2009-07-07 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi Craig, Carl, Robert, David, Franco, Burcin, About #5985 [with patch, needs review] cPickle: adds support for class pickling customization What's the status on this one? I though that the bottom line of the discussion at SD15 for this one (not to be mixed up with #5986) was that: -

[sage-devel] Re: notebook as a separate project

2009-07-07 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:48 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> so let's start the notebook as a separate project? I would of course >> prefer if Mike could do that, but if he's busy, I'll try to at least >> start it. > > Unfortunately,

Re: Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: Categories restart

2009-07-07 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear David Kohel, Can I be of any help for the reviewing of the category patch? Do you have a timeline for your progress on this? Best, Nicolas On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 08:58:34AM -0700, Nicolas Thiéry wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:29:47PM +0

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Categories

2009-07-07 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear William, dear category fans, On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:33:11AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > >> To do this, could somebody ASAP build sage-4.1.rc0.tar, pull and > >> rebase all the *-combinat stuff against it? Done. One thing though: #5882 just changed the category of a category t

[sage-devel] Re: OT: community was: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to try to build constructively on the following statement > and reply: > > William Stein writes: > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, rjf wrote: >>> >>> In terms of support, one major disadvantage of Sage, I think, is

[sage-devel] Re: Substitute method for argument of derivative operator

2009-07-07 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi, On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, William Stein wrote: >> In new symbolics, if I do the same I get >> >> sage: g >> D[0](f)(x) >> sage: g.subs_expr(f(x)==f(x)+df(x)) >> D[0](f)(x) >> - >> >> Is there a way to do this in new symbolics? It seems >> to be a road block in implemen

[sage-devel] Re: firefox 3.5 and jsmath

2009-07-07 Thread Bo
Me too. It has made me so much trouble. I guess I can only delete the jsmath font for now. On Jul 4, 7:56 am, Andrzej Giniewicz wrote: > Same here... today I upgraded and had to set to image fonts explicitly > injsmathoptions > > On 2 Lip, 10:03, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > On 2009-Jul-01 01:21:5

[sage-devel] Re: Unicode handle in truncated_name function

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
2009/7/4 NoSyu : > > Hello. > > I use Sagemath to show the Linear Algebra problems solution. > > And I am Korean. > > Therefore I write the title in Korean. > > http://nosyu.pe.kr/attach/1/5682987737.png > > > But in worksheet,  the title is broken because of truncated_name > function in worksheet

[sage-devel] Re: Quaternion Algebra on Q(i) and Cocompact/Uniform Lattices in SL2(Z[i])

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Leonard Foret wrote: > > Hello all, > > This is my first time in sage-devel.  I have a project with a > professor til the end of August to construct cocompact/uniform > lattices on SL2(Z[i]) basically by quaternion algebras. What is a "lattice on SL2(Z[i])"? >  I

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: >> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >>> 1) I must be able to use NumPy together with the preparser (it's just >>> too much hassle to turn it on and off, and it kind of defeats the >>> purpose.). That is, with the prepars

[sage-devel] Re: Substitute method for argument of derivative operator

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > > Hi all, > > It seems none of the current substitute methods for symbolic > expressions works for the argument of the derivative operator. > > In computing functional derivative, I need to vary > a functional. For example, in sage-3.4

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jul 7, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Ryan Hinton wrote: > > On the other hand, I've never found a bug in Matlab. And with the > tools > I have found bugs (still _much_ less often than with Sage), it takes > much less of my time: I don't have to dig through source code that > someone else wrote, find,

[sage-devel] Re: Could you elaborate more on spkg-check?

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Simon King wrote: > > Dear sage devel, > > currently I am writing a test  suite for my cohomology spkg. In the > Developer's Guide, I read: > > spkg-check: this file runs the test suite. This is somewhat optional > since not all spkgs have test suites. If possible d

[sage-devel] Re: notebook as a separate project

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > Hi, > > so let's start the notebook as a separate project? I would of course > prefer if Mike could do that, but if he's busy, I'll try to at least > start it. Unfortunately, Mike seems to be MIA for the last few weeks, from my point of vie

[sage-devel] Re: Problem running SAGE on an imac

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Shaun Ault wrote: > > Armand Brumer asked me to email you about this sage problem he is > experiencing.  I've taken a look at it myself and have no idea what's > going on.  We have a clean installation of sage 4.0.1 on an iMac with > Intel Core 2 Duo running Mac OS

[sage-devel] Problem running SAGE on an imac

2009-07-07 Thread Shaun Ault
Armand Brumer asked me to email you about this sage problem he is experiencing. I've taken a look at it myself and have no idea what's going on. We have a clean installation of sage 4.0.1 on an iMac with Intel Core 2 Duo running Mac OS X 10.5.7. What happens is that a call to sage will unexpect

[sage-devel] Re: bitnami

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Robert Miller wrote: > William, > > Have you heard of this? > > http://bitnami.org/ I don't know if I have heard of that. I had a lot of trouble getting any clue what precisely bitnami really is after browsing their site for 10 minutes just now. > It sounds a

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Marshall Hampton
I made some other copies on Lulu, with more elaborate covers, of all the documentation, for the 2009 joint meetings. I have been planning on doing that again with the new docs but haven't gotten around to it. -Marshall On Jul 6, 10:25 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > >> * No g

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Categories

2009-07-07 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:33:11AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Nicolas M. > Thiery wrote: > > > >        Dear William, > > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:00:00AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Anne Schilling > >> wrote: > >> > L

[sage-devel] Re: OT: community was: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to try to build constructively on the following statement > and reply: > > William Stein writes: > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, rjf wrote: >>> >>> In terms of support, one major disadvantage of Sage, I think

[sage-devel] OT: community was: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear all, I would like to try to build constructively on the following statement and reply: William Stein writes: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, rjf wrote: >> >> In terms of support, one major disadvantage of Sage, I think, is that >> significant pieces of the implementation apparently cons

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:22 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dag Sverre > Seljebotn wrote: >> >> William Stein wrote: >>> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >>> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >>> (e.g., Ma

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Categories

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > >        Dear William, > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:00:00AM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Anne Schilling wrote: >> > Let me reiterate Nicolas' message that it would be really >> > great to have his categ

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:24 AM, rjf wrote: > > > > On Jul 7, 10:25 am, William Stein wrote: > ... >> >> I agree that having a component of Sage whose source code is visibly >> difficult for Sage developers to work with is a disadvantage of Sage, >> and one we should fix (by not using said compon

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Categories

2009-07-07 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear William, On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:00:00AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Anne Schilling wrote: > > Let me reiterate Nicolas' message that it would be really > > great to have his category code (and hopefully the root system > > and affine crystal patc

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread rjf
On Jul 7, 10:25 am, William Stein wrote: ... > > I agree that having a component of Sage whose source code is visibly > difficult for Sage developers to work with is a disadvantage of Sage, > and one we should fix (by not using said component). > > It's hard to tell whether or not this is a dis

[sage-devel] Re: Size of exponents and silent errors

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote: > >> I very strongly agree that such a limitation is a major problem. >> The only way I can think of to deal with it, is if any such exponent >> appears, we switch to the polydict (nonsingular) representation, and >> everything gets w

[sage-devel] Re: Sage fails to build on bsd.math

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > Hi, > > I feel embarrassed posting this (since others seem to be able to build > sage on bsd.math) but I've run into a problem building sage-4.0.2 on > bsd.math.  I've tried twice and both times maxima fails to build with > the followi

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, rjf wrote: >> >> In terms of support, one major disadvantage of Sage, I think, is that >> significant pieces of the implementation apparently consists of pieces >> of code that are used as black boxes, and that

[sage-devel] Re: Implementation of Zeilberger and similar algorthms?

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Robert Dodier wrote: > > On Jul 6, 6:16 am, Burcin Erocal wrote: > >> I'm reluctant to expose this functionality by default in Sage, since >> Maxima returns wrong results for certain input: >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3587#comment:9 > > Looks li

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Categories

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Anne Schilling wrote: > > Hi! > > Let me reiterate Nicolas' message that it would be really > great to have his category code (and hopefully the root system > and affine crystal patches) integrated into Sage before FPSAC > which starts in less than two weeks from no

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Ryan Hinton
Bill Hart wrote: >> > >>> > > * Releases happen so frequently that IT depts. cannot hope to keep up >>> > > with installing the latest releases. >> > >> > I wonder how much more often Sage releases are than iTunes releases? >> > I just checked and our releases are maybe about twice as freq

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, rjf wrote: > > In terms of support, one major disadvantage of Sage, I think, is that > significant pieces of the implementation apparently consists of pieces > of code that are used as black boxes, and that the Sagemeisters > proudly disavow knowledge of.  Thus a bu

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> Here is a talk I gave that was about many of the many features Magma >> has that Sage doesn't have: >>  http://wstein.org/talks/20090609-sage_and_magma/ >> >> Below I'll make a few remarks just because they occurr

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-07 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/01/09 03:22, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> If you have questions about this, I would simply join the visit users list: >> >> https://email.ornl.gov/mailman/listinfo/visit-users > > Thanks for this, I'll have a look at how to fix/patch VTK to build on > Mac. I think Prabhu has a commit access, so

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread rjf
In terms of support, one major disadvantage of Sage, I think, is that significant pieces of the implementation apparently consists of pieces of code that are used as black boxes, and that the Sagemeisters proudly disavow knowledge of. Thus a bug traced to Maxima is unfixable "until we rewrite Max

[sage-devel] Sage fails to build on bsd.math

2009-07-07 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Hi, I feel embarrassed posting this (since others seem to be able to build sage on bsd.math) but I've run into a problem building sage-4.0.2 on bsd.math. I've tried twice and both times maxima fails to build with the following error: $ cd sage-4.0.2 $ ./sage -sh $ cd spkg/build/maxima-5.16.3

[sage-devel] Re: Implementation of Zeilberger and similar algorthms?

2009-07-07 Thread Robert Dodier
On Jul 6, 6:16 am, Burcin Erocal wrote: > I'm reluctant to expose this functionality by default in Sage, since > Maxima returns wrong results for certain input: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3587#comment:9 Looks like the problems mentioned there have been fixed in CVS. (%i5) si

[sage-devel] Re: Size of exponents and silent errors

2009-07-07 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
> I very strongly agree that such a limitation is a major problem. > The only way I can think of to deal with it, is if any such exponent > appears, we switch to the polydict (nonsingular) representation, and > everything gets way slower, and Groebner basis computations switch to > a toy implement

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-07 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:02 PM, William Stein wrote: >> It seems that in Sage 4.0.1.rc0, there is an error when I tried >> building the PDF version of the reference manual. If you're >> interested, the complete LaTeX log is here: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/doc/reference.lo

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Bill Hart
Oh well, here is one certfication MathWorks got: http://www.mathworks.com/company/pressroom/articles/article31189.html Bill. On 7 July, 05:03, William Stein wrote: > Here is a talk I gave that was about many of the many features Magma > has that Sage doesn't have: >  http://wstein.org/talks/20

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Bill Hart
On 7 July, 05:03, William Stein wrote: > Here is a talk I gave that was about many of the many features Magma > has that Sage doesn't have: >  http://wstein.org/talks/20090609-sage_and_magma/ > > Below I'll make a few remarks just because they occurred to me.  I'm > not trying to disagree with

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Horton
On 4 Jul 2009, at 23:21, Robert Miller wrote: > Source tarball, sage.math binary, and upgrade URL are, respectively: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0.tar > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0-sage.math-only-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz > htt

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 7 Jul., 09:45, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: ... > There might be advantages to actually offing a 'premier service' with > guaranteed response times, confidentiality etc. The fact that one could > get the same service for no charge would not matter - it might help get > Sage used in places wh

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-07 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
Hi, > It seems that in Sage 4.0.1.rc0, there is an error when I tried > building the PDF version of the reference manual. If you're > interested, the complete LaTeX log is here: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/doc/reference.log > > I think this should be fixed before releasing the

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > Here is a talk I gave that was about many of the many features Magma > has that Sage doesn't have: > http://wstein.org/talks/20090609-sage_and_magma/ > > Below I'll make a few remarks just because they occurred to me. I'm > not trying to disagree with anything you wrote.

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Stan Schymanski
I would also add that MMA is more powerful at solving equations and finding roots. E.g. the Reduce[] command in MMA. Even MMA's Solve[] finds solutions where Sage (or Maxima) does not. But I suppose that this is not a fundamental disadvantage of Sage, as it is just a matter of implementing bet

[sage-devel] Re: Any workaround for bug 6423 ??

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > rjf wrote: >> In that report, William Stein says, >> "A large amount of the symbolic functionality that uses Maxima has >> issues like this, but unfortunately there is basically nothing we can >> do about it, except continue with project

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Robert Miller wrote: >> >> Source tarball, sage.math binary, and upgrade URL are, respectively: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0.tar >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home

[sage-devel] Re: Size of exponents and silent errors

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote: > > I'd like to discuss whether limiting the size of exponents of > variables in Sage is a good way to go, and whether it is necessary to > report an error when breaking those limits. In the default polynomial > ring using Singular,