[sage-devel] Re: number_of_partitions

2012-09-20 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Friday, 21 September 2012 10:25:45 UTC+8, Andrew Mathas wrote: > > Among other things, the patch > #13072cleans up > sage.combinat.partition. I would like some input as to should > happen to the function number_of_partitions. > > Arguably, if

[sage-devel] number_of_partitions

2012-09-20 Thread Andrew Mathas
Among other things, the patch #13072cleans up sage.combinat.partition. I would like some input as to should happen to the function number_of_partitions. Arguably, if you want to compute the number of partitions of some integer in sage then you s

[sage-devel] Re: How to work with principal value when a definite integral?

2012-09-20 Thread Nils Bruin
On Sep 19, 9:58 pm, Mizuchi wrote: > I think it could be better if either (1) sage provide a > parameter for integrate that whether accept the principal value, (2) or at > least print a warning instead throw an exception. Well here's a way that voids your warranty (which you didn't have anyway):

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Normalization of a vector

2012-09-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:52:24 PM UTC-7, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> >> There is the issue that norm(v) does not always (often?) live in v for >> exact v. Dropping to SR can be really slow, as can dropping to >> QQ[sqrt(norm(v))], especi

[sage-devel] OS X Mountain Lion update (progress!)

2012-09-20 Thread John H Palmieri
Due to contributions from both Apple and Christoph Sorger, Sage now builds on OS X Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), or at least it builds on my machine and on his. With the most recent updates to OS X (10.8.2, released yesterday) and Xcode (4.5, released within the last few days), most of the problems

Re: [sage-devel] Re: stopgap instructions

2012-09-20 Thread John H Palmieri
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:04:57 AM UTC-7, John Cremona wrote: > > Thanks John, I should have been more optimistic about the developers' > manual being up to date, scein googling "sage developer manual > stopgap" found that page. > I was present at the Sage Days when stopgaps were firs

Re: [sage-devel] Re: stopgap instructions

2012-09-20 Thread John Cremona
Thanks John, I should have been more optimistic about the developers' manual being up to date, scein googling "sage developer manual stopgap" found that page. Now I know what to do, all I need to do is do it... John On 20 September 2012 15:46, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > On Thursday, September

[sage-devel] Re: stopgap instructions

2012-09-20 Thread John H Palmieri
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:12:22 AM UTC-7, John Cremona wrote: > > Where can I find instructions for including a new stopgap message? > The Developer's Guide has a section on stopgaps: http://sagemath.org/doc/developer/trac.html#stopgaps Does that answer your questions? -- John --

[sage-devel] Re: How to work with principal value when a definite integral?

2012-09-20 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:58:15 AM UTC-4, Mizuchi wrote: > > Hi, Nils: > > Thanks for reply. IMHO, for many physical problems, we just want to know > principal value. As you mentioned, we can use other definition to void this > issue. However, for more complicated formula, it is hard

Re: [sage-devel] Python tutor

2012-09-20 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
2012/9/19 Jan Groenewald > I wonder what it takes to replace python with sage here? IMHO not too much (if I understand correctly, Sage is almost pure python, apart from a preprocessor). But then I think even a small piece of Sage code would lead to a lot of instructions to "draw", so not very u

[sage-devel] stopgap instructions

2012-09-20 Thread John Cremona
Where can I find instructions for including a new stopgap message? John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+un

[sage-devel] Re: A short comment about sage-devel

2012-09-20 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 6:14:41 AM UTC+2, jason wrote: > > Or even Harald's google spreadsheet form? > I honestly don't have the manpower to really check it all the time. Usually, once a month I do a cleanup, because really a lot of "non-bugs" are listed there. For the actual bugs, i