Heck, Amazon still has the 3.0 version of the tutorial on sale brand
new from them. Not to say that that's any better, but they're both
still being printed, possibly??
Erik
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM, William Stein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Who is responsible for the Sage Tutorial being at Amazon.com
> I'm not suggesting it is a gold standard, but given the results agreed
> reasonably closely with Sage, and were computed to arbitrary precision, then
> I had a reasonable degree of confidence in believing the "failure" was not
> really a failure at all.
>
Thank you for your very clear explanati
> I think the reason Mathematica was invoked is because it can do arbitrary
> precision numerical integration, and a good test to see if the last couple
> of digits are right is to compute the result to much higher precision. (We
> do have arbitrary precision for lots of other stuff, but much of th
>
> That's almost certainly true. In fact, the result printed by the "failure"
> is more accurate than the expected value! I tried this in Mathematica:
>
This might be a trivial question, but how do you know which number is
more accurate than the other, if those results are machine-dependent?
Or i
> 'binutils' is not a program, but a collection of programs from GNU, which
> happens to include ranlib, ar, ld and others.
>
>
Yes, but I was suggesting the change because of issues I had trying to
install ranlib. I attempted it and was told that apt-get couldn't find it. I
then did some searching
>
> Post it where? Here to the list? Should I assume that what holds true for
> Ubuntu is more general, or just make notes in the text that let people know
> that on Ubuntu that's the way it is? (Because that's all I have available to
> me.)
>
>
I looked into it, and looks like it's very standard t
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Erik Lane wrote:
> > Issues with the install:
> >
> > README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as
> an
> > option for apt-ge
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:31 PM, William Stein wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Erik Lane wrote:
> > Issues with the install:
> >
> > README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as
> an
> > option for apt-get, but it is part
Issues with the install:
README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as an
option for apt-get, but it is part of the binutils package. Also needs to be
updated re: the new requirements for gfortran. It still lists the old info.
GCC needs to be all lowercase for apt-get to
