[sage-devel] Re: Mathematics without apologies - Portrait of a Problematical Vocation

2015-12-05 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
(A large part of) the problem is that mathematics are broadly perceived by people in position to decide what to do with them ("deciders" later on) as a set of engeneering tools, and often reduced (even in universities !) as a computational gizmo. The fact that it is also (firstly ?) an importan

[sage-devel] Re: Definition of multifactorial #5415

2015-12-05 Thread Peter Luschny
Nils Bruin> "It may well be (and that is what the ticket indicates too) that sage's documentation does not agree with common mathematical convention." The standard common mathematical use of various types of multifactorials is well documented in the OEIS. But what also is well documented in th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Definition of multifactorial #5415

2015-12-05 Thread Nathann Cohen
> Please review the changes made. > https://github.com/prateekcs14/sage/commit/1d70630b6f878752fa342150d1e4c2e6c4777c4a You may want to read this: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/index.html Nathann -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-dev

[sage-devel] Re: Definition of multifactorial #5415

2015-12-05 Thread prateek sharma
Please review the changes made. https://github.com/prateekcs14/sage/commit/1d70630b6f878752fa342150d1e4c2e6c4777c4a On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 3:19:52 PM UTC+5:30, prateek sharma wrote: > > Please review. > > On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 2:41:59 PM UTC+5:30, prateek sharma > wrote: >> >>