Re: [sage-devel] Re: DeBruijn sequences: Should they really be a subclass of EnumeratedSets?

2011-11-20 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hellooo !! > FiniteEnumeratedSets is a class whose only instance is the category of > finite eunmerated sets. And that's the point: Nicolas Thiéry suggested > (as a part of #11900) to introduce "Category_singleton" as a base > class for those categories that are indpendent of any additional da

[sage-devel] Re: DeBruijn sequences: Should they really be a subclass of EnumeratedSets?

2011-11-20 Thread Simon King
Hi Nathann! On 20 Nov., 23:36, Nathann Cohen wrote: >  * Is it really intended that DeBruijnSequences(m,n) is a category? In> what > sense is it a category? > >  * If it is intended: Why is DeBruijnSequences a subCLASS of > > EnumeratedSets? Is it intended to say that DeBruijnSequences(m,n) > >

[sage-devel] Building Sage 4.7.2 on openSUSE 12.1 (64-bit)

2011-11-20 Thread caretaker82
Hello~ I am trying to build the latest sage on the latest version of openSUSE 12.1 (64-bit), and I have come across another libreadline issue that I have not been able to solve: Error: Readline's build claims to have finished, but files that should have been built weren't. I do find, however, th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: 5 doctest errors when building 4.7.2

2011-11-20 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-11-19 12:23, Volker Braun wrote: >> I propose that we just add a doctest that makes it clear that you >> shouldn't run doctests as root. No more mysterious failures. > Well, I certainly agree that running doctests as root is not very

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic nth_root()

2011-11-20 Thread Rob Beezer
On Nov 20, 5:52 am, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > So I think the question still remains: is there something like a > symbolic nth_root() function?  Or, alternatively, a way of evaluating > the symbolic expression x^(1/3) yielding only real numbers with real > input?  Such functionality would certainly b

Re: [sage-devel] Flat source distribution

2011-11-20 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > I am experimenting with making a so-called flat source tarball: a source > distribution with all spkg's extracted.  So, instead of a file > spkg/standard/atlas-3.8.4.spkg, you have a directory > spkg/standard/atlas-3.8.4/ > > I have implemen

Re: [sage-devel] Symbolic nth_root()

2011-11-20 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > When searching sage-support, there are several threads about people > complaining they cannot plot x^(1/3) or similar on the negative axis > because (-1)^(1/3) is a complex number, not a real number. > > The answer is to plot something like

Re: [sage-devel] Erasing the content of a cell

2011-11-20 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Florent Hivert wrote: >      Hi there, > > I asked this two weeks ago and didn't get any answer, so I allow myself to > post it again. Inside a cell you can print things, show graphs or plots. In > order to get some primitive kinds of animation, I'd like to be able

Re: [sage-devel] development of a framework for numeral systems

2011-11-20 Thread William Stein
Hi Daniel, Why are you planning to build a framework for "numeral systems" (I'm not sure what that means, by the way)? What is the motivation for _you_ doing this? I think explaining that would be extremely helpful in evaluating this proposal. Also, is there similar functionality in Mathemati

[sage-devel] Re: DeBruijn sequences: Should they really be a subclass of EnumeratedSets?

2011-11-20 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hellooo !! I don't know whether the authors of DeBruijnSequences are reading sage- > combinat-devel, so please excuse that I post here: > I reviewed it ! And did not do a very good job it seems :-/ * Is it really intended that DeBruijnSequences(m,n) is a category? In > what sense is it a

[sage-devel] DeBruijn sequences: Should they really be a subclass of EnumeratedSets?

2011-11-20 Thread Simon King
Hi! I don't know whether the authors of DeBruijnSequences are reading sage- combinat-devel, so please excuse that I post here: * Is it really intended that DeBruijnSequences(m,n) is a category? In what sense is it a category? * If it is intended: Why is DeBruijnSequences a subCLASS of Enumerate

[sage-devel] Re: development of a framework for numeral systems

2011-11-20 Thread rjf
Much of this seems of recreational interest at best. If you are looking for something to do arithmetically and perhaps computationally, why not look at work by Chee Yap, or Blum Shub (try googling)... How can you compute with "real numbers" -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-deve

[sage-devel] Re: Flat source distribution

2011-11-20 Thread Volker Braun
On Sunday, November 20, 2011 1:06:24 PM UTC, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > This should make the Sage source tarball much more rsync-friendly, even > though it is a lot larger (about 1.2GB). > Ouch ;-) There are patches around to make gzip archives rsyncable at the cost of a small decrease in compress

[sage-devel] Erasing the content of a cell

2011-11-20 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi there, I asked this two weeks ago and didn't get any answer, so I allow myself to post it again. Inside a cell you can print things, show graphs or plots. In order to get some primitive kinds of animation, I'd like to be able to erase the output of the content of a cell, from inside the c

[sage-devel] Symbolic nth_root()

2011-11-20 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
When searching sage-support, there are several threads about people complaining they cannot plot x^(1/3) or similar on the negative axis because (-1)^(1/3) is a complex number, not a real number. The answer is to plot something like lambda x:RR(x).nth_root(3). This is not very satisfactory becaus

[sage-devel] Flat source distribution

2011-11-20 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
I am experimenting with making a so-called flat source tarball: a source distribution with all spkg's extracted. So, instead of a file spkg/standard/atlas-3.8.4.spkg, you have a directory spkg/standard/atlas-3.8.4/ I have implemented this in the merger script, for the result see: http://boxen.mat

[sage-devel] multinomial_coefficients licence

2011-11-20 Thread mario
Hi, I would like to ask Sage developers, and in particular @ylchapuy the contributor of the function `multinomial_coefficients`, if you can release `multinomial_coefficients` under the BSD licence to be used in Sympy, since it is simpler and faster than the currently available Miller recurrence alg

Re: [sage-devel] talk on Sage that I gave today

2011-11-20 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Thierry Dumont wrote: > Le 20/11/2011 08:48, William Stein a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> I gave a general audience talk today at the Combinatorial Potlatch >> here at Seattle University.  My slides, the worksheet, and a clear >> recording of the audio of the talk are