[sage-devel] Re: Treasurer

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM, William Stein wrote: > For > example, right now we're having regular trouble with the trac server > not being robust enough (IMHO).  Spending a little money on somebody > to fix this situation would make sense. Just an update on this: Mike Hansen saw this and de

[sage-devel] Re: SAT Solvers in Sage, some COQ ?.... General questions

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Brickenstein
Hi! I would like to see that in Sage too. The combination of Gröbner bases and DPLL is very interesting (also from a verification point of view). I can only recommend to read the following paper. C. Condrat and P. Kalla, "A Groebner Basis Approach to CNF formulae Preprocessing" I think, using Po

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Zimmermann
> From: William Stein > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:14:41 -0700 > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, John H Palmieri > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Oct 22, 8:57 am, William Stein wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:11 AM, John H Palmieri > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Anyway, 0^0 is undefined in math

[sage-devel] Re: Treasurer

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:51 PM, mhampton wrote: > > I have several times been in the position of being appointed > treasurer, for various organizations, I think because I am often the > "math person".  The things I have learned are: I am not a very good > treasurer, and organizational skills are

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 22, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2009-Oct-16 13:05:02 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" > > wrote: >>> I'm updating a configure script which will warn users if their >>> operating system >>> is too old. In the case of a Solaris 9 machine it will say: >>

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:42 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Oct 22, 5:11 pm, William Stein wrote: >> Well like it or not, it is a fact that 0.0^0.0 = 1 *is* the official >> ISO 99 standard. Note that ISO = "international standards >> organization". >> >> I'm not making an argument here for or ag

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 22, 6:41 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:42 PM, John H Palmieri > wrote: > > I just mentioned "0^0" to my wife (a Biologist), and she instantly > said "it doesn't exist". We could conduct an experiment: survey the UW math department. It's a little silly so I probab

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Bill Page wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:06 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> Can you try version 0.3.6? >> >> sage -i >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/patches/sagenb/sagenb-0.3.6.spkg >> > > Much better! I have not been able to re-create the ed

[sage-devel] Re: A bug in solve_left()

2009-10-22 Thread Jason Grout
Kwankyu Lee wrote: > Hi, > > sage: A=matrix(2,[1,2,3,3]) > sage: A.solve_right(vector([3,6])) > (1, 1) > sage: category(_) > Category of elements of Vector space of dimension 2 over Rational > Field > sage: A.solve_left(vector([3,6])) > [3 0] > sage: category(_) > Category of elements of Full Mat

[sage-devel] Re: A bug in solve_left()

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > > I hope some expert confirm that this is a bug or merely my > misunderstanding. Yes, this looks like a bug to me. William --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:42 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Oct 22, 5:11 pm, William Stein wrote: >> Well like it or not, it is a fact that 0.0^0.0 = 1 *is* the official >> ISO 99 standard.  Note that ISO = "international standards >> organization". >> >> I'm not making an argument here for o

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-22 Thread Bill Page
> After running action Evaluate All, I choose some expression inside the > worksheet and expected to make a small change to a constant and then > re-evaluate it by hitting control-shift. The result was "NameError: > name 'A' is not defined". Of course I meant to write: "by hitting Shift-Enter" -

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-22 Thread Bill Page
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:06 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Can you try version 0.3.6? > > sage -i > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/patches/sagenb/sagenb-0.3.6.spkg > Much better! I have not been able to re-create the edit problem I reported earlier after about an hour of trying. How

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Welsh
This is an educated guess, but 5.x.0 x \leq 5 6.y.0 y \leq 8 7.z.0 z \leq 9 That's if Apple sticked to the naming scheme they claim to use (http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2001/Nov/msg00188.html ) On 23/10/2009, at 2:18 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > Do you know what versions a

[sage-devel] Re: A bug in solve_left()

2009-10-22 Thread Kwankyu Lee
I hope some expert confirm that this is a bug or merely my misunderstanding. Kwankyu --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Kwankyu Lee
On Oct 23, 12:11 am, John H Palmieri wrote: > On Oct 22, 1:25 am, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > The following scares me. > > > sage: 0^0 > > 1 > > sage: F.=GF(5) > > sage: F(0)^0 > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > ... > > ArithmeticError: 0^0 is undefined. > > > For any x, x^0 is

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread David Kirkby
2009/10/23 Michael Welsh : > > I would say anything strictly less than 8.0. There are versions > missing from that table on Wikipedia. > On 23/10/2009, at 1:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> If that is so, does it seem reasonable to display a message about >> being >> unsupported for Darwin vers

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Welsh
I would say anything strictly less than 8.0. There are versions missing from that table on Wikipedia. On 23/10/2009, at 1:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > If that is so, does it seem reasonable to display a message about > being > unsupported for Darwin versions 1.3.1, 1.4.1, 6.0.1 and 7.0 ?

[sage-devel] Re: Treasurer

2009-10-22 Thread mhampton
I have several times been in the position of being appointed treasurer, for various organizations, I think because I am often the "math person". The things I have learned are: I am not a very good treasurer, and organizational skills are much more important than math skills for such a position.

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> Michael Welsh wrote: >>> 10.0.0 is current for darwin. >>> >>> Darwin numbers are different to OS X numbers. >> So if 10.0.0 is current, what would be too old to be supported on Sage? I'm >> trying to add a test

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 22, 5:11 pm, William Stein wrote: > Well like it or not, it is a fact that 0.0^0.0 = 1 *is* the official > ISO 99 standard.  Note that ISO = "international standards > organization". > > I'm not making an argument here for or against this.  But there is no > arguing with it being an offici

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Michael Welsh wrote: >> 10.0.0 is current for darwin. >> >> Darwin numbers are different to OS X numbers. > > So if 10.0.0 is current, what would be too old to be supported on Sage? I'm > trying to add a test which will warn people if t

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Oct 22, 4:15 pm, Fredrik Johansson > wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM, John H Palmieri >> >> >> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> > On Oct 22, 2:14 pm, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, John H Palmieri

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Welsh
On 23/10/2009, at 1:02 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Michael Welsh wrote: >> 10.0.0 is current for darwin. >> >> Darwin numbers are different to OS X numbers. > > So if 10.0.0 is current, what would be too old to be supported on > Sage? I'm > trying to add a test which will warn people if th

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Bill Page wrote: > > William, > > After upgrading to 'sagenb-0.3.5.spkg' I noticed a peculiar behavior. > If I pick an old worksheet and do 'Evaluate All' everthing appears to > work fine but sometimes (not entirely reproducible yet) I am no longer > able to dele

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Michael Welsh wrote: > 10.0.0 is current for darwin. > > Darwin numbers are different to OS X numbers. So if 10.0.0 is current, what would be too old to be supported on Sage? I'm trying to add a test which will warn people if their OS is too old, but I do not know what to check for on the Mac

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Welsh
10.0.0 is current for darwin. Darwin numbers are different to OS X numbers. On 23/10/2009, at 12:53 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > The 10.0.0 would suggest this is quite old, but the fact it's dated > 2009 would > suggest it is not very old. > > Any Mac gurus who can resolve this? -- http://yo

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Kwankyu Lee wrote: > Hi, > > The following scares me. > > sage: 0^0 > 1 > sage: F.=GF(5) > sage: F(0)^0 > Traceback (most recent call last): > ... > ArithmeticError: 0^0 is undefined. > > For any x, x^0 is 1 by definition. Isn't it in Sage? I am using Sage > 4.1.2 > > > Kwankyu For what it i

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Michael Welsh wrote: > 10.6 has darwin 10 > 10.5 has darwin 9 > 10.4 has darwin 8 Nice and logical, just like Solaris! > I'm not sure about more depth, but my machine (10.6.1 Intel) has > > Gordon:~ yomcat$ uname -r > 10.0.0 > > My G4 with 10.5.8 has > > Charlie:~ charlie$ uname -r > 9.8.0 >

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 22, 4:15 pm, Fredrik Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM, John H Palmieri > > > > > > wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2:14 pm, William Stein wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, John H Palmieri > >> wrote: > > >> > On Oct 22, 8:57 am, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Oct-16 13:05:02 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" > wrote: >> I'm updating a configure script which will warn users if their operating >> system >> is too old. In the case of a Solaris 9 machine it will say: > > Whilst I agree in principal, I have some concerns about the

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Tom Boothby
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Fredrik Johansson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM, John H Palmieri > wrote: >> >> On Oct 22, 2:14 pm, William Stein wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, John H Palmieri >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> > On Oct 22, 8:57 am, William Stein wrote: >>> >

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2:14 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, John H Palmieri >> wrote: >> >> >> > On Oct 22, 8:57 am, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:11 AM, John H Palmieri >> >> wrote: >> >> >

[sage-devel] Re: Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Welsh
10.6 has darwin 10 10.5 has darwin 9 10.4 has darwin 8 I'm not sure about more depth, but my machine (10.6.1 Intel) has Gordon:~ yomcat$ uname -r 10.0.0 My G4 with 10.5.8 has Charlie:~ charlie$ uname -r 9.8.0 On 23/10/2009, at 9:03 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Does anyone know what this pa

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 22, 2:14 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, John H Palmieri > wrote: > > > > On Oct 22, 8:57 am, William Stein wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:11 AM, John H Palmieri > >> wrote: > > >> > Anyway, 0^0 is undefined in mathematics, so it's good that it's > >

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Oct-16 13:05:02 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >I'm updating a configure script which will warn users if their operating >system >is too old. In the case of a Solaris 9 machine it will say: Whilst I agree in principal, I have some concerns about the wording. >configure: WARNING: You

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Oct 22, 8:57 am, William Stein wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:11 AM, John H Palmieri >> wrote: >> >> > Anyway, 0^0 is undefined in mathematics, so it's good that it's >> > undefined in Sage. >> >> It's defined for Sage *in

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 22, 8:57 am, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:11 AM, John H Palmieri > wrote: > > > Anyway, 0^0 is undefined in mathematics, so it's good that it's > > undefined in Sage. > > It's defined for Sage *integers*: > > sage: 0^0 > 1 What about: sage: 0.000^0.000 1.0

[sage-devel] Darwin versions supported on sage - what does config.h show?

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I'm trying to update the code which checks for the prerequisites for Sage. I've implemented some tests for Solaris versions, which 1) Check if the version is older than Solaris 10. 2) Advise people to upgrade if their hardware is sufficiently new 3) Tell them they can't upgrade if its too old.

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Francis Clarke wrote: The following article has interesting remarks on this question, particularly pages 407--408: \bib{MR1163629}{article}{ author={Knuth, Donald E.}, title={Two notes on notation}, journal={Amer. Math. Monthly}, volume={99}, date={1992}

[sage-devel] Re: incorrect positioning of 3d axes

2009-10-22 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> Bill Page wrote: >>> The optional labeled axes in jmol 3-d graphics is a nice addition but >>> take a look at, for example: >>> >>> line3d([(0,0,0), (-3,4,-5),(3,4,-5),(3,-4,5)]) >>> >>> In the 4.1.2 notebook. Righ

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Francis Clarke
The following article has interesting remarks on this question, particularly pages 407--408: \bib{MR1163629}{article}{ author={Knuth, Donald E.}, title={Two notes on notation}, journal={Amer. Math. Monthly}, volume={99}, date={1992}, number={5}, pages={403--422}, } Among the

[sage-devel] Treasurer

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-Devel, There is a Sage Foundation account at UW with some money, often from private people, and also from book sales (e.g., the Sage Tutorial from Lulu.com, which is pretty popular).People can also make tex-deductible donations to this account. When managing funds (e.g., with other g

[sage-devel] Re: incorrect positioning of 3d axes

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Bill Page wrote: >> The optional labeled axes in jmol 3-d graphics is a nice addition but >> take a look at, for example: >> >>   line3d([(0,0,0), (-3,4,-5),(3,4,-5),(3,-4,5)]) >> >> In the 4.1.2 notebook. Right-click the image and turn on

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Bill Page wrote: > > William, > > After upgrading to 'sagenb-0.3.5.spkg' I noticed a peculiar behavior. > If I pick an old worksheet and do 'Evaluate All' everthing appears to > work fine but sometimes (not entirely reproducible yet) I am no longer > able to dele

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Rubey
>>> For any x, x^0 is 1 by definition. >> >> I always thought that for any y, 0^y = 0. >> >> Anyway, 0^0 is undefined in mathematics, so it's good that it's >> undefined in Sage. > > It's defined for Sage *integers*: ... I think I've seen this discussion before. Categories! Martin --~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: Decimals of Pi

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Hello everybody !!! > > I know this is totally useless, but why shouldn't it work > nevertheless ? :-) > > sage: n(pi,digits=1000) > --- > ValueError

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Francois Maltey
About 0^0 > Even for discrete things like elements of GF(5)? I haven't thought > about what 0^0 is for things where the continuous limit doesn't make sense. > In any ring, integer power x^n is défined by x^0 = 1, because an empty product is the unit element. The reason is the same for 0!=1.

[sage-devel] Re: incorrect positioning of 3d axes

2009-10-22 Thread Jason Grout
Bill Page wrote: > The optional labeled axes in jmol 3-d graphics is a nice addition but > take a look at, for example: > > line3d([(0,0,0), (-3,4,-5),(3,4,-5),(3,-4,5)]) > > In the 4.1.2 notebook. Right-click the image and turn on Style/Axes. > Notice how the diagonal line does not appear to

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Jason Grout
John H Palmieri wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 1:25 am, Kwankyu Lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The following scares me. >> >> sage: 0^0 >> 1 >> sage: F.=GF(5) >> sage: F(0)^0 >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> ... >> ArithmeticError: 0^0 is undefined. >> >> For any x, x^0 is 1 by definition. > > I alw

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-22 Thread Bill Page
William, After upgrading to 'sagenb-0.3.5.spkg' I noticed a peculiar behavior. If I pick an old worksheet and do 'Evaluate All' everthing appears to work fine but sometimes (not entirely reproducible yet) I am no longer able to delete cells inside the worksheet. Also if I change the contents of a

[sage-devel] Re: MPFR issue on sun4v machines has been solved.

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > There were 20 test failures of mpfr due to a bug in the memset implementation > on > Solaris 10 on sun4m machines (those based on the T1, T2, or T2+ processors). Oops, sun4m are quite old. It is sun4v which is effected by this bug. --~--~-~--~~--

[sage-devel] incorrect positioning of 3d axes

2009-10-22 Thread Bill Page
The optional labeled axes in jmol 3-d graphics is a nice addition but take a look at, for example: line3d([(0,0,0), (-3,4,-5),(3,4,-5),(3,-4,5)]) In the 4.1.2 notebook. Right-click the image and turn on Style/Axes. Notice how the diagonal line does not appear to start at where you would expect

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Pablo Angulo wrote: > >> >> If you want to very easily try this new code (and everything else >> we've done improving the new notebook in the last few days), just do >> this: >> >>   sage -i http://wstein.org/home/wstein/patches/sagenb/sagenb-0.3.5.spkg >> > Every

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:11 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Oct 22, 1:25 am, Kwankyu Lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The following scares me. >> >> sage: 0^0 >> 1 >> sage: F.=GF(5) >> sage: F(0)^0 >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> ... >> ArithmeticError: 0^0 is undefined. >> >> For any x,

[sage-devel] Re: Category review: what's the category of a category?

2009-10-22 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 03:05:25PM -0700, David Kohel wrote: > What about the category of categories (with functors as morphisms)? Sounds reasonable. You would have it derive from Object, right? If yes, then I vote for leaving a TODO note in Category.category, and postpone the creation of this n

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 22, 1:25 am, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > Hi, > > The following scares me. > > sage: 0^0 > 1 > sage: F.=GF(5) > sage: F(0)^0 > Traceback (most recent call last): > ... > ArithmeticError: 0^0 is undefined. > > For any x, x^0 is 1 by definition. I always thought that for any y, 0^y = 0. :) Anyw

[sage-devel] MPFR issue on sun4v machines has been solved.

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
There were 20 test failures of mpfr due to a bug in the memset implementation on Solaris 10 on sun4m machines (those based on the T1, T2, or T2+ processors). http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6453 The T2+ is used in the Sun T5240 at t2.math.washington.edu. Sun have sent me a 'T' patch,

[sage-devel] Re: Decimals of Pi

2009-10-22 Thread Francois Maltey
Hello Nathann, > I know this is totally useless, but why shouldn't it work nevertheless > ? :-) > > sage: n(pi,digits=1000) Useless indeed... Maple often fails between 10^4 and 10^5 digits and axiom around 10^5. I don't know the reason : Ligther mathematics or bad code. It seems that numeri

[sage-devel] Decimals of Pi

2009-10-22 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody !!! I know this is totally useless, but why shouldn't it work nevertheless ? :-) sage: n(pi,digits=1000) --- ValueErrorTraceback (most recent call last) /user/ncohen/home/

[sage-devel] Re: webMathematica 3 -- mathematica's take on web-based "manipulate"

2009-10-22 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:52 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > Mathematica released their web-based *manipulate* implementation: > >          http://wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/ Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash This

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-22 Thread Pablo Angulo
> > If you want to very easily try this new code (and everything else > we've done improving the new notebook in the last few days), just do > this: > > sage -i http://wstein.org/home/wstein/patches/sagenb/sagenb-0.3.5.spkg > Everything smooth, including a feature I requested about a month ago.

[sage-devel] A bug in solve_left()

2009-10-22 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Hi, sage: A=matrix(2,[1,2,3,3]) sage: A.solve_right(vector([3,6])) (1, 1) sage: category(_) Category of elements of Vector space of dimension 2 over Rational Field sage: A.solve_left(vector([3,6])) [3 0] sage: category(_) Category of elements of Full MatrixSpace of 1 by 2 dense matrices over Rati

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Oct-14 15:43:33 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >The best I have seen in open-source development for this sort of thing >is the wireshark developers list. Join that for a week and see what >messages you get. FreeBSD also has automated build bots for both the core OS (currently 4 suppo

[sage-devel] Re: webMathematica 3 -- mathematica's take on web-based "manipulate"

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
kcrisman wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2:10 am, Jason Grout wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Mathematica released their web-based *manipulate* implementation: >>> http://wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/ >>> There are a few dozen examples. They are now ahead in that they >>> a

[sage-devel] 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Hi, The following scares me. sage: 0^0 1 sage: F.=GF(5) sage: F(0)^0 Traceback (most recent call last): ... ArithmeticError: 0^0 is undefined. For any x, x^0 is 1 by definition. Isn't it in Sage? I am using Sage 4.1.2 Kwankyu --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to th

[sage-devel] Re: Jmol in 4.1.2

2009-10-22 Thread Pat LeSmithe
On 10/21/2009 04:22 PM, William Stein wrote: > I've replicated this: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7263 > Basically all jmol 3d plotting at the command line is totally broken > right now on all platforms. Not good. Patches at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7263 They dep

[sage-devel] new mathematics plot jmol primitive

2009-10-22 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: > A few days ago I posted a query to the jmol mailing list about getting > nice mesh lines in jmol that we could make pretty arbitrary, like in > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/5511/mesh_function.jpeg > (see trac #5511 for the code for that figure). Two