[sage-devel] Re: What enhancements to Jmol and the Jmol in sage-notebook would interest you?...

2010-11-06 Thread Oscar Lazo
On Nov 6, 7:49 pm, Jonathan Gutow wrote: > > 2) Development of a plot4d command allowing time dependent 3-D plots.  I > believe this requires a little work on Jmol, but mostly a reworking of how > sage sends data to Jmol. That sounds very nice! Something I would love to see is genuine real ti

[sage-devel] Re: What enhancements to Jmol and the Jmol in sage-notebook would interest you?...

2010-11-06 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/6/10 10:19 PM, Volker Braun wrote: I also noted that the z-ordering of polygons done by jmol has issues close to where triangles meet. Being able to generate 2d vector graphics for 3d graphics objects would be nice. Is there a roadmap for the future of 3d graphics on Sage? Having somethin

[sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread rjf
On Nov 6, 5:06 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > On 11/ 6/10 10:25 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > I think it would be wonderful to have a fast implementation of > > computing the number primes up to x, which is freely available, > > especially given the central role that the Riemann Hypothesis (wh

Re: Re: [sage-devel] A C++ Question

2010-11-06 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Martin Albrecht wrote: > Hi, > > turns out in order to use the cool new Cython 0.13 C++ features > >    http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/wrapping_CPlusPlus.html > > one has to patch Sage's setup.py slightly, see: > >    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] What enhancements to Jmol and the Jmol in sage-notebook would interest you?...

2010-11-06 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Gutow wrote: > Dear Sage user and developers, > >> > In addition to being sure that I work on something the community is > interested in, I also need a commitment from one or two people who are very > familiar with the notebook code to be available for co

[sage-devel] Re: What enhancements to Jmol and the Jmol in sage-notebook would interest you?...

2010-11-06 Thread Volker Braun
I also noted that the z-ordering of polygons done by jmol has issues close to where triangles meet. Being able to generate 2d vector graphics for 3d graphics objects would be nice. Is there a roadmap for the future of 3d graphics on Sage? Having something hardware accelerated would be nice with t

[sage-devel] Reviewer for PPL / Cython interface?

2010-11-06 Thread Volker Braun
It would be good if someone who knows some Cython could now review the Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) spkg and Cython interface at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10039 The interface is essentially a straight-forward wrapper of the PPL C++ library, with a few workarounds for private cons

[sage-devel] Re: What enhancements to Jmol and the Jmol in sage-notebook would interest you?...

2010-11-06 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/6/10 8:49 PM, Jonathan Gutow wrote: 1) Development of a slicer within Jmol. This would allow hiding all but an arbitrary thickness and orientation slice of the 3-D image. This involves both Jmol developments and probably additions to the javascript interface for the notebook. This I beli

[sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/6/10 8:37 PM, William Stein wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 11/ 6/10 10:25 PM, William Stein wrote: I think it would be wonderful to have a fast implementation of computing the number primes up to x, which is freely available, especially given the cent

[sage-devel] What enhancements to Jmol and the Jmol in sage-notebook would interest you?...

2010-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gutow
Dear Sage user and developers, First I apologize if you see multiples of this message, but I wanted to reach as much of the community as possible so posted to sage-devel, -edu and -notebook. If there is anywhere else this should be cross listed please let me know. I'm looking for input on wha

Re: [sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 11/ 6/10 10:25 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> I think it would be wonderful to have a fast implementation of >> computing the number primes up to x, which is freely available, >> especially given the central role that the Riemann Hypothes

Re: [sage-devel] 'Integrity errors' in the sage repository?

2010-11-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Mitesh, On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Mitesh Patel wrote: > How serious are these errors? To me, the errors reported by "hg verify" is not serious. That's because it's trivial to recover from the error at the cost of possibly generating new hashes. Here's how to recover the whole Sage 4.6.1

Re: [sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 11/ 6/10 10:25 PM, William Stein wrote: I think it would be wonderful to have a fast implementation of computing the number primes up to x, which is freely available, especially given the central role that the Riemann Hypothesis (which is a statement about pi(x)) has in mathematics. It's sad

Re: [sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:05 AM, David Kirkby wrote: > On 6 November 2010 10:37, Bill Hart wrote: >> David, do you mean compute prime_pi up to some huge bound (by doing >> sieving in parallel), then make a giant table with "waypoints" which >> Sage refers to. > > The magic code apepars to be the

[sage-devel] 'Integrity errors' in the sage repository?

2010-11-06 Thread Mitesh Patel
Running 'hg verify' in 4.6.1.alpha0's sage repository, I see $ cd SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage $ hg verify checking changesets checking manifests crosschecking files in changesets and manifests checking files data/.gitignor...@10122: missing revlog! data/.hgignor...@0: missing revlog! [...] data/spkg-i

[sage-devel] Re: Useful link - internal algorithms used by Mathematica

2010-11-06 Thread rjf
Anyone using Mathematica would have the online documentation 'help' system. So far as I can tell, each command that uses an algorithm (partially) documented on that page has a link from the command documentation to that page. A regular user of Mathematica with some curiosity about algorithms will h

Re: Re: [sage-devel] A C++ Question

2010-11-06 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi, turns out in order to use the cool new Cython 0.13 C++ features http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/wrapping_CPlusPlus.html one has to patch Sage's setup.py slightly, see: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10230 Robert, can you take a look and review it? It would be great

[sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread rjf
Why not look around at the state of the art in using computers to do something that might be of some benefit. Math doesn't have to be useless. You can look at what other people, especially computer scientists, have been trying to do and how they are approaching parallelism. Here's a place you can

Re: [sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread David Kirkby
On 6 November 2010 10:37, Bill Hart wrote: > David, do you mean compute prime_pi up to some huge bound (by doing > sieving in parallel), then make a giant table with "waypoints" which > Sage refers to. The magic code apepars to be the "Meissel-Lehmer-Lagarias-Miller-Odlyzko algorithm" , which I t

[sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread D.C. Ernst
Having talked to Nathan briefly, I think that he may be interested in potentially improving already existing algorithms. This is a bit beyond my scope of knowledge, so I suggested that he contact this list. On Nov 5, 2:48 pm, nekopczynski wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I am currently a senior comput

[sage-devel] Re: German translation of the tutorial / Übersetzung des Tutorials in Deutsch

2010-11-06 Thread Philipp Schneider
Hi all, First I want that thank everybody who helped us improve the translation. Right now I'm confident that the quality of the translation is high enough for it to be included into the sage distribution. So i created the patch, but I still need some German speaking sage developer to review it.

[sage-devel] Re: Who wrote the paper saying commercial software is like hiding proofs?

2010-11-06 Thread rjf
Mistakes by authors and/or referees and/or editors are fairly commonplace. Requiring the author to supply all software in source code (e.g. all of Sage version XYZ) and requiring referees to look at it for possible errors, and requiring editors/publishers to make the source code available (archiva

[sage-devel] Re: 4.6 build - Atlas fails on Ubuntu 10.10 on amd turion X2 laptop

2010-11-06 Thread RegB
So far that is working, i.e. Atlas has completed and no other packages seem to have tripped over any side effects. Thanks again. On Nov 5, 7:24 pm, Volker Braun wrote: > You can try my new atlas spkg > athttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10226 > if you have a minute. > > SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH

[sage-devel] Re: 4.6 build - Atlas fails on Ubuntu 10.10 on amd turion X2 laptop

2010-11-06 Thread RegB
I get confused with the directions about running in virtual box (-: I think it should be OK and very possible to create virtual machines, say within virtual box within Windows Vista and install Linux in those VMs , then go ahead and install Sage on the Linux. i.e. (Windows Vista (Virtual Box(UBUNT

[sage-devel] Matrix slicing bug

2010-11-06 Thread Philipp Schneider
Hi, could someone please look at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9747? This bug has been around for a while and is really annoying. Also fix is rather short. (Basically -9 lines.) Thanks, Philipp -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe fro

[sage-devel] Re: 4.6 build - Atlas fails on Ubuntu 10.10 on amd turion X2 laptop

2010-11-06 Thread RegB
I would like to try that. I will report back results (good or bad). Is there any info you would like me to collect from good/bad results ? Thanks. On Nov 5, 7:24 pm, Volker Braun wrote: > You can try my new atlas spkg > athttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10226 > if you have a minute. >

[sage-devel] Re: Building reference.pdf fails

2010-11-06 Thread Håkan Granath
Hi Minh, Thanks for the quick reply! I tried applying the patch but nothing changed (I hope I applied it correctly...). I will try unpacking and building 4.6 from scratch again, maybe something went wrong last time. If no one else is having this problem it is maybe something wrong in my setup. T

Re: Re: [sage-devel] A C++ Question

2010-11-06 Thread Martin Albrecht
> I'm not a guru, but is it defined in > > SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/c_lib/include/ccobject.h > > ? Both ntl_wrap.h and pb_wrap.h include this file. Doh, how could I miss that. Thanks! > > If heap-allocated instances are fast enough, you can use the much > > > > easier C++ support (recently merge

Re: [sage-devel] Building reference.pdf fails

2010-11-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Håkan, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Håkan Granath wrote: > When I try to build the Sage 4.6 pdf reference manual by running > > ./sage -docbuild reference pdf > > it fails with no pdf output. This happens on 64 bit Ubuntu > 10.04.1 LTS. It works fine to build the Sage 4.5.3 reference > manu

[sage-devel] Building reference.pdf fails

2010-11-06 Thread Håkan Granath
When I try to build the Sage 4.6 pdf reference manual by running ./sage -docbuild reference pdf it fails with no pdf output. This happens on 64 bit Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. It works fine to build the Sage 4.5.3 reference manual on the same machine. The end of reference.log is below. Regards, Håkan

[sage-devel] Re: paralizing algorithms

2010-11-06 Thread Bill Hart
David, do you mean compute prime_pi up to some huge bound (by doing sieving in parallel), then make a giant table with "waypoints" which Sage refers to. If that's what you are referring to, then yeah I guess you could get a project out of that if it hasn't already been done. If you were a strong p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Could we test upgrades of Sage with buildbot?

2010-11-06 Thread David Kirkby
On 6 November 2010 06:43, Mitesh Patel wrote: > On 11/05/2010 07:25 PM, Jason Grout wrote: >> On 11/5/10 5:16 PM, Mitesh Patel wrote: >>> On 11/05/2010 07:49 AM, kcrisman wrote: > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/buildbot/binaries/ > > Does it usually take a long time (~1 hour