Re: [sage-devel] Sage Days Ideas

2012-06-11 Thread Florent Hivert
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:50:43AM +0900, Dan Drake wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 at 04:19PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > > Hi Sage Developers (mainly in the US), > > > > If you really wish you could run an awesome Sage Days in the next > > year, but can't quite figure out where to get funding, wr

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Days Ideas

2012-06-11 Thread Dan Drake
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 at 10:40PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > That's a great idea. Dan -- could you take charge of organizing > something like this, in the next year? I suspected I might be volunteering. :) Sure, I'll do it. Dan -- --- Dan Drake - http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake ---

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Days Ideas

2012-06-11 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 at 04:19PM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> Hi Sage Developers (mainly in the US), >> >> If you really wish you could run an awesome Sage Days in the next >> year, but can't quite figure out where to get funding, write to me. >

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Days Ideas

2012-06-11 Thread Dan Drake
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 at 04:19PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage Developers (mainly in the US), > > If you really wish you could run an awesome Sage Days in the next > year, but can't quite figure out where to get funding, write to me. I dunno if this would be an "awesome" Sage Days, or if I

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistent behaviour with solve and precision

2012-06-11 Thread Eviatar
Here's another worrying behaviour: sage: solve(log(x) == 0.50001, x) [x == sqrt(e)] On Monday, 11 June 2012 17:53:17 UTC-7, Eviatar wrote: > > It seems Maxima does this by default. Any way to disable it? > > On Monday, 11 June 2012 17:47:09 UTC-7, Eviatar wrote: >>

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistent behaviour with solve and precision

2012-06-11 Thread Eviatar
It seems Maxima does this by default. Any way to disable it? On Monday, 11 June 2012 17:47:09 UTC-7, Eviatar wrote: > > solve has inconsistent behaviour when using exact numerical > representations of numbers. > > For example: > > sage: solve(sin(x) == 0.5, x) > [x == 1/6*pi] > sage: arcsin(0.5)

[sage-devel] Inconsistent behaviour with solve and precision

2012-06-11 Thread Eviatar
solve has inconsistent behaviour when using exact numerical representations of numbers. For example: sage: solve(sin(x) == 0.5, x) [x == 1/6*pi] sage: arcsin(0.5) 0.523598775598299 sage: solve(log(x) == 0.5, x) [x == sqrt(e)] sage: e^0.5 1.64872127070013 Shouldn't this be consistent? It seems

[sage-devel] Re: Question/Poll on 3D plot behavior

2012-06-11 Thread Eviatar
Looks much better! I have no problems with it requiring the extra click, assuming it generates the still image fairly quickly. Is the viewing angle for the still customizable? Will it still behave the old way in the terminal? On Monday, 11 June 2012 12:36:24 UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: > > At #12299

[sage-devel] Sage Days Ideas

2012-06-11 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage Developers (mainly in the US), If you really wish you could run an awesome Sage Days in the next year, but can't quite figure out where to get funding, write to me. -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this grou

[sage-devel] groups

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Beezer
We have objects which conveniently organise examples of certain (named) mathematical objects, such as graphs, digraphs and posets (and others?). These also help keep the global namespace a little cleaner. I'd like to do the same thing with groups. Comments are welcome as I work on this throu

[sage-devel] Re: Linear Algebra thematic tutorial

2012-06-11 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/11/12 12:34 PM, Michele wrote: Hi, at page 120-7 of the pdf the example of Elementary matrix "elementary_matrix(QQ, row1=3, scale=-2)" misses the matrix size. Thanks for the beautiful work, Thanks! I've corrected it in our source. Jason -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation dates?

2012-06-11 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/11/12 10:02 AM, William Stein wrote: I guess the new trac_number field will have to default to None, unless we want to raise a deprecation warning whenever deprecation() is only called with two arguments...infiinte loop?! I count about 132 times where deprecation is imported and about 70 t

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation dates?

2012-06-11 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/11/12 10:02 AM, William Stein wrote: I would just suggest: deprecation(msg,trac_number) where both arguments are mandatory. Once this code is in Sage, one can deduce every possible thing discussed above in this thread from the trac number. The deprecation warning can produce the UR

[sage-devel] Re: Question/Poll on 3D plot behavior

2012-06-11 Thread Volker Braun
Even in the current implementation you need to press a mouse button before you can drag the view around. So I don't quite understand what is different in the new jmol. Can you elaborate on that? What should be avoided is that you first have to press&release mouse button before you can press aga

[sage-devel] Question/Poll on 3D plot behavior

2012-06-11 Thread kcrisman
At #12299 there is a really nice update to the Jmol interface which is being reviewed. It makes it very easy to do (among other things) Change colors on plots, use axes, etc. on the fly Do things to just one or two of multiple plotted objects in a graphic (like showing mesh, color) Export to so

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in sparse matrix display code?

2012-06-11 Thread Jon Yard
Thanks Doug. I hadn't realized that the output of mod(m,n) is in the integers mod n. On Monday, June 11, 2012 8:26:34 AM UTC-6, D. S. McNeil wrote: > > > So is this a bug, or is there some subtle aspect of the set { ... } > > constuction that I'm misusing? > > Oy, that's cute! The second matr

[sage-devel] Re: Linear Algebra thematic tutorial

2012-06-11 Thread Michele
Hi, at page 120-7 of the pdf the example of Elementary matrix "elementary_matrix(QQ, row1=3, scale=-2)" misses the matrix size. Thanks for the beautiful work, Michele On Saturday, June 9, 2012 5:46:50 AM UTC+2, jason wrote: > > On 6/3/12 1:20 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: deprecation dates?

2012-06-11 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:54 AM, John Cremona wrote: > On 11 June 2012 03:38, William Stein wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Volker Braun wrote: >>> Keeping the deprecation wiki, trac, and the Sage library in sync seems >>> hopeless. How about we >>> >>> a) add the ticket where it was

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in sparse matrix display code?

2012-06-11 Thread John Cremona
I would use (j,(j+1)%5) instead below. John On 11 June 2012 15:26, D. S. McNeil wrote: >    matrix(QuadraticField(2),5,{(j,int(mod(j+1,5))):1 for j in range(5)}) > Doug > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email

[sage-devel] Re: sage polybori patch

2012-06-11 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hey Charles, (CC: sage-devel), On Monday 11 Jun 2012, you wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I have a few SAGE-related questions for you. > > This small patch (against sage 5.0) will make the variety() function > work on ideals of BooleanPolynomials. It essentially adds a few basic > functions that were mi

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in sparse matrix display code?

2012-06-11 Thread D. S. McNeil
> So is this a bug, or is there some subtle aspect of the set { ... } > constuction that I'm misusing? Oy, that's cute! The second matrix index lives in Zmod(5), and behaves as such: sage: wA = matrix(QuadraticField(2),5,{(j,mod(j+1,5)):1 for j in range(5)}) sage: wA.dict() {(0, 1): 1, (1, 2): 1

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage and LinBox >= 1.3.0

2012-06-11 Thread Martin Albrecht
Update, we are down to these doctest failures: 1) File "/opt/sage-5.0-linbox/devel/sage/sage/tests/french_book/numbertheory.py", line 43: sage: [r for r in R] Expected: [0, 2*x, x + 1, x + 2, 2, x, 2*x + 2, 2*x + 1, 1] Got: [0, x, x + 1, 2*x + 1, 2, 2*x, 2*x + 2, x + 2, 1] This is ea

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation dates?

2012-06-11 Thread Volker Braun
Maybe I'm the hopeless case, but manually updating the wiki to be in sync isn't what I like to spend my time on :-) On Monday, June 11, 2012 4:13:13 AM UTC+1, Keshav Kini wrote: > > Volker Braun writes: > > > Keeping the deprecation wiki, trac, and the Sage library in sync seems > > hopeless

Re: [sage-devel] Re: deprecation dates?

2012-06-11 Thread John Cremona
On 11 June 2012 03:38, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Volker Braun wrote: >> Keeping the deprecation wiki, trac, and the Sage library in sync seems >> hopeless. How about we >> >> a) add the ticket where it was introduced as an argument to the >> deprecation(msg, sage_ver

[sage-devel] Bug in sparse matrix display code?

2012-06-11 Thread jtyard
Hi, In Sage 5.0, I'm getting the following strange behavior with sparse matrices. As they should, the following two methods produce the same cyclic permutation matrix: sage> A = matrix(QQ,5,{(j,mod(j+1,5)):1 for j in range(5)}); A [0 1 0 0 0] [0 0 1 0 0] [0 0 0 1 0] [0 0 0 0 1] [1 0 0 0 0] sage