Re: [sage-devel] Re: AMS meeting in San Francisco

2010-01-13 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > Seriously though, the best combination of location, hours and wifi > I've found is Seattle's Best Coffee in Borders Books in the Westfield > San Francisco Centre.  Open until 10 PM, with free wifi. > 845 Market Street, between 4th and 5th. Big

[sage-devel] Re: Naming question: monomial vs term

2010-01-13 Thread Michael Brickenstein
+1 for consistency. However, you should really get rid of these evil coefficients, then you can use term as synonym for monomial ;-). Cheers, Michael -- 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...@goo

[sage-devel] Re: AMS meeting in San Francisco

2010-01-13 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jan 13, 10:48 pm, William Stein wrote: > Is this for real: I am about a mile away, so can't check on this tonite. > I think starbucks has 2-hours of free wifi. I think this requires a Starbucks card you have registered and used to buy at least 5 drinks. > I have an account for wifi that I p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: AMS meeting in San Francisco

2010-01-13 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > Been looking for a place.  How about The Sage Lounge? > http://www.yelp.com/biz/sage-lounge-san-francisco > > Seriously though, the best combination of location, hours and wifi > I've found is Seattle's Best Coffee in Borders Books in the Westfi

[sage-devel] Re: AMS meeting in San Francisco

2010-01-13 Thread mhampton
I have some evening plans but I think I might head there earlier on Thursday, around 4. The Moscone wifi is truly sad. -Marshall On Jan 13, 10:54 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > Been looking for a place. How about The Sage > Lounge?http://www.yelp.com/biz/sage-lounge-san-francisco > > Seriously thoug

[sage-devel] Re: AMS meeting in San Francisco

2010-01-13 Thread Rob Beezer
Been looking for a place. How about The Sage Lounge? http://www.yelp.com/biz/sage-lounge-san-francisco Seriously though, the best combination of location, hours and wifi I've found is Seattle's Best Coffee in Borders Books in the Westfield San Francisco Centre. Open until 10 PM, with free wifi.

[sage-devel] Re: AMS meeting in San Francisco

2010-01-13 Thread Rado
I am interested. The wireless at the Moscone is pathetic, so maybe we should arrange time and place to meet tonight (as I am basically cutoff from the net all day). Rado On Jan 13, 1:34 pm, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > If you're at the AMS meeting in San Francisco and want to meet for a > Sage

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Re: 4.3.1.alpha2

2010-01-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Robert Miller wrote: I've finished merging for sage-4.3.1.alpha2, but due to... technical difficulties, the best place I can put it right now is in /scratch/rlm on boxen

Re: [sage-devel] What can I test that makes use of parallel processors?

2010-01-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:52 PM, William Stein wrote: What matters for this benchmark is the number of cores that the computer has. Though t2 can manage 128 hardware threads, it only has 16 actual *cores*. Not quite; the following is in a box with 8 cores -- 16 threads

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 4.3.1.rc0

2010-01-13 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:39:07AM -0800, Robert Miller wrote: > I've spoken with Mike Hansen and we've agreed that I will take the > rest of the positively reviewed patches I wasn't able to get to last > night, and make an rc0 today. This will serve as a good base for the > upcoming bug days. Mik

Re: [sage-devel] What can I test that makes use of parallel processors?

2010-01-13 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:52 PM, William Stein wrote: > What matters for this benchmark is the number of cores that the computer has. > Though t2 can manage 128 hardware threads, it only has 16 actual *cores*. Not quite; the following is in a box with 8 cores -- 16 threads: sage: time b = bernou

[sage-devel] Re: Naming question: monomial vs term

2010-01-13 Thread Simon King
On 13 Jan., 23:29, Tom Boothby wrote: > > Singular and Magma seem to agree with Sage.  MuPAD uses the opposite > > convention.  Both show up in the literature.  Is everyone OK with > > term = coefficient * monomial ? +1 It seems to be used consistently in Sage, so, it wouldn't be wise to change

Re: [sage-devel] Naming question: monomial vs term

2010-01-13 Thread Tom Boothby
> Singular and Magma seem to agree with Sage.  MuPAD uses the opposite > convention.  Both show up in the literature.  Is everyone OK with > term = coefficient * monomial ? +1 -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Naming question: monomial vs term

2010-01-13 Thread John Cremona
I agree with your proposed terminology for term, coefficient and monomial. Though I would only have used the word "monomial" for a polynomial algebra when thought of as a module, otherwise just "generator" or similar. John 2010/1/13 Jason Bandlow : > Hello all, > > I'm currently working on enric

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Re: 4.3.1.alpha2

2010-01-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Robert Miller wrote: I've finished merging for sage-4.3.1.alpha2, but due to... technical difficulties, the best place I can put it right now is in /scratch/rlm on boxen.math.washington.ed

[sage-devel] problems with converting expression from Maxima

2010-01-13 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
Hello all, Sage changes expression which is converted from Maxima. As a consequence, the linear term in taylor polynomial is allway expanded into f'(a)*x+const instead of f'(a)*(x-a)+f(a). Can someone explain this behavior? How to get rid of this? See the code below and trac http://trac.sagemath

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Re: 4.3.1.alpha2

2010-01-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Robert Miller wrote: I've finished merging for sage-4.3.1.alpha2, but due to... technical difficulties, the best place I can put it right now is in /scratch/rlm on boxen.math.washington.edu. The source tarball a

[sage-devel] Naming question: monomial vs term

2010-01-13 Thread Jason Bandlow
Hello all, I'm currently working on enriching the ModulesWithBasis Category in Sage, and I have a question about what to call things. Namely, when given a sum of generators with coefficients, what is a 'term' and what is a 'monomial'. (Typically, I am asking for leading/trailing terms/monomials)

Re: [sage-devel] What can I test that makes use of parallel processors?

2010-01-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: I used boxen.math, which is a 24 core Xeon 2.6Ghz. What matters for this benchmark is the number of cores that the computer has. Though t2 can manage 128 hardware threads, it only has 16 actual *cores*. On every system I have checked the attached C program, written by Andr

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Re: 4.3.1.alpha2

2010-01-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Robert Miller wrote: I've finished merging for sage-4.3.1.alpha2, but due to... technical difficulties, the best place I can put it right now is in /scratch/rlm on boxen.math.washington.edu. The source tarball and boxen.math- speci

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Re: 4.3.1.alpha2

2010-01-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Robert Miller wrote: > I've finished merging for sage-4.3.1.alpha2, but due to... technical > difficulties, the best place I can put it right now is in /scratch/rlm > on boxen.math.washington.edu. The source tarball and boxen.math- > specific binary are

Re: [sage-devel] What can I test that makes use of parallel processors?

2010-01-13 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Dr. David Kirkby >> wrote: >>> >>> Can someone give me a Sage command to type that can exploit multiple >>> processors, which I can then time? (I'm not a Sage user really, just

[sage-devel] AMS meeting in San Francisco

2010-01-13 Thread William Stein
Hi, If you're at the AMS meeting in San Francisco and want to meet for a Sage meeting / coding sprint on Thursday evening, respond to this email. William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sa

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Bill Hart
MPIR already provides that. On Jan 13, 7:14 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > Bill Hart wrote: > > For the OpenSolaris setup, could you print the contents of config.log > > so we can see what went wrong. The usual problem is it can't find a > > working C compiler for config.sub, but config.log will

Re: [sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: For the OpenSolaris setup, could you print the contents of config.log so we can see what went wrong. The usual problem is it can't find a working C compiler for config.sub, but config.log will tell us what actually happened (hopefully). It's a long file Bill. Can you copy

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Bill Hart
For the OpenSolaris setup, could you print the contents of config.log so we can see what went wrong. The usual problem is it can't find a working C compiler for config.sub, but config.log will tell us what actually happened (hopefully). It's a long file Bill. On Jan 13, 3:45 pm, Jaap Spies w

Re: [sage-devel] What can I test that makes use of parallel processors?

2010-01-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Can someone give me a Sage command to type that can exploit multiple processors, which I can then time? (I'm not a Sage user really, just helping port it to Solaris, so don't rely on me knowing python). Ideally a fl

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 4.3.1.rc0

2010-01-13 Thread Nathann Cohen
Could we take care of glpk and cbc just before ?? The problem seems to come from Sage itself !! The same packages apply well on the previous version :-/ Nathann -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsu

[sage-devel] Sage 4.3.1.rc0

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Miller
Hello, I've spoken with Mike Hansen and we've agreed that I will take the rest of the positively reviewed patches I wasn't able to get to last night, and make an rc0 today. This will serve as a good base for the upcoming bug days. --rlm -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googl

[sage-devel] Re: sage documentation

2010-01-13 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jan 13, 12:04 pm, Stan Schymanski wrote: > release tour for Sage 4.3 We just didn't create one, due to lack of manpower. There is just a changelog. If there is somebody willing to go through the changelog and create a release tour, it would be very welcome! > f2py The search in the documen

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Jaap Spies wrote: Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Jaap Spieswrote: gcc version 4.4.2 20091222 (Red Hat 4.4.2-20) (GCC) checking build system type... x

Re: [sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Jaap Spies wrote: > Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Jaap Spies  wrote: >>> >>> gcc version 4.4.2 20091222 (Red Hat 4.4.2-20) (GCC) >>> >>> checking build system type... x86_64-unk

Re: [sage-devel] Runtime error in 'ChangeDirectory' when using %magma in a worksheet cell

2010-01-13 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:30 AM, John Cremona wrote: > 2010/1/13 William Stein : >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:02 AM, John Cremona wrote: > >>> >>> The issue with %magma cells did not happen.  So I'll go with the >>> optimistic verdict above. >>> >> >> I do remember fixing something very simi

Re: [sage-devel] Runtime error in 'ChangeDirectory' when using %magma in a worksheet cell

2010-01-13 Thread John Cremona
2010/1/13 William Stein : > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:02 AM, John Cremona wrote: >>> >> >> The issue with %magma cells did not happen.  So I'll go with the >> optimistic verdict above. >> > > I do remember fixing something very similar with the notebook, so I'm > optimistic. > However, I wouldn't

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solving numerical matrices

2010-01-13 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: _On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 00:03 -0700, Jason Grout wrote: Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: Hi Jason Grout (and others), we started something on IRC last night which I really wanted to finish, since you mentioned that you might pick up work again on dense RDF/CDF matrices

Re: [sage-devel] Runtime error in 'ChangeDirectory' when using %magma in a worksheet cell

2010-01-13 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:02 AM, John Cremona wrote: >> >> This is frustrating.  I built 4.3.1.alpha1 from scratch, ran it and >> started up the notebook using port=8001 since 8000 was in use with the >> already running 4.3 server (which had the problem).  I also had to use >> a non-default direct

Re: [sage-devel] What can I test that makes use of parallel processors?

2010-01-13 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Can someone give me a Sage command to type that can exploit multiple > processors, which I can then time? (I'm not a Sage user really, just helping > port it to Solaris, so don't rely on me knowing python). > > Ideally a floating point an

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: gcc version 4.4.2 20091222 (Red Hat 4.4.2-20) (GCC) checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Sti

Re: [sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: > gcc version 4.4.2 20091222 (Red Hat 4.4.2-20) (GCC) > > checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Still misdetected, it s

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Bill Hart wrote: Ah, I see in a later trac update you have the same problem in Fedora. But surely there you have cat /proc/cpuinfo. What information does it give you? We might be able to tackle the problem from there. I had the wrong Fedora running. On Fedora 12 64 bit in Virtualbox: gcc ver

Re: [sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > Ah, I see in a later trac update you have the same problem in Fedora. > But surely there you have cat /proc/cpuinfo. What information does it > give you? We might be able to tackle the problem from there. >> > This is in VirtualBox, so virtual p

[sage-devel] Re: Vote! factorization of some special numbers

2010-01-13 Thread javier
Big speed improvements on calculations involving small finite fields, like finding primitive elements? Possibility for automatic coercion for finite fields? And the cost is just 0.5MB of harmless plain text that doesn't even need to be compiled!? Give it a +1! Cheers J On Dec 18 2009, 11:16 pm,

Re: [sage-devel] globals

2010-01-13 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi Robert, Do you think you have time to review shortly #7776 (inject_variable)? It would be cool to have it and its dependent in sage 4.3.1. Thanks in advance! Nicolas -- Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ -- To post to this group,

Re: [sage-devel] Vote! factorization of some special numbers

2010-01-13 Thread John Cremona
+1 John 2010/1/13 David Roe : > +1. > > I'm trying to coercions between finite fields to behave automatically, which > leads to needing nth roots in finite fields for large n (exactly the > situation Yann is talking about).  Not having to worry about factoring p^k-1 > would be really nice: I'm al

Re: [sage-devel] Vote! factorization of some special numbers

2010-01-13 Thread David Roe
+1. I'm trying to coercions between finite fields to behave automatically, which leads to needing nth roots in finite fields for large n (exactly the situation Yann is talking about). Not having to worry about factoring p^k-1 would be really nice: I'm already having to worry about various speed i

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Bill Hart
Ah, I see in a later trac update you have the same problem in Fedora. But surely there you have cat /proc/cpuinfo. What information does it give you? We might be able to tackle the problem from there. Bill. On Jan 13, 11:14 am, Bill Hart wrote: > To be honest, I really don't know. You are going

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Bill Hart
To be honest, I really don't know. You are going to have to ask a Virtual Box/Open Solaris expert on this. Maybe Open Solaris doesn't play nice with Virtual Box on your particular hardware. Either way, if it lies to MPIR about what the processor is, there isn't a whole lot we can do. Of course yo

[sage-devel] sage documentation

2010-01-13 Thread Stan Schymanski
Dear all, Please excuse the long and unfocussed email, but I thought this gives a better account of user behaviour (well, my behaviour as a sage user) than pointed suggestions for improvements. I was looking for the release tour for Sage 4.3 or previous versions, but could not find a link to it o

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Bill Hart wrote: MPIR should detect all known intel and amd CPU's (MPIR 1.3 will also detect via and atom's), but for some reason it doesn't detect yours. To perform the detection it asks the CPU what it is, using the CPUID instruction. 2 possiblities: 1) The CPUID instruction is returning the

Re: [sage-devel] Question about pickle in python

2010-01-13 Thread François Bissey
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:35:16 Craig Citro wrote: > > If you work on getting this merged upstream as a bug that's a good > > selling point for us. We can produce a patched ebuild and possibly > > get it accepted. > > Do you have a bug tracking number of some kind for it? > > I just submitted the bug

Re: [sage-devel] Runtime error in 'ChangeDirectory' when using %magma in a worksheet cell

2010-01-13 Thread John Cremona
> > This is frustrating.  I built 4.3.1.alpha1 from scratch, ran it and > started up the notebook using port=8001 since 8000 was in use with the > already running 4.3 server (which had the problem).  I also had to use > a non-default directory, again because of the clash with the other > server run

Re: [sage-devel] Runtime error in 'ChangeDirectory' when using %magma in a worksheet cell

2010-01-13 Thread John Cremona
2010/1/12 John Cremona : > The server which had the problem was running 4.3. > > On the same machine I started another server using 4.3.1.alpha1 and > there was no problem.  That was with my usual user account, not the > sage account. > > From the sage account, I copied my 4.3.1.alpha1 build from m

Re: [sage-devel] Question about pickle in python

2010-01-13 Thread Craig Citro
> If you work on getting this merged upstream as a bug that's a good > selling point for us. We can produce a patched ebuild and possibly > get it accepted. > Do you have a bug tracking number of some kind for it? > I just submitted the bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue7689 I'll let you know as

Re: [sage-devel] Re: 2 variable polynomial factorization over finite fields

2010-01-13 Thread John Cremona
Thanks -- interesting discussion! That would make a nice project for someone to implement in Sage. John 2010/1/13 William Stein : > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Bill Hart > wrote: >> The algorithm QUICK FACTOR in the von zur Gather - Kaltofen paper > > PDF attached to this email. > >> look

[sage-devel] What can I test that makes use of parallel processors?

2010-01-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Can someone give me a Sage command to type that can exploit multiple processors, which I can then time? (I'm not a Sage user really, just helping port it to Solaris, so don't rely on me knowing python). Ideally a floating point and an integer example would be good. I'm somewhat disappointed wi