[sage-devel] Re: norm of a complex number

2010-04-26 Thread Rishikesh
There is abs() function which behaves likes Norm of Mathematica. I think that the function names of sage are more appropriate. Rishi On Apr 26, 3:26 pm, John Cremona wrote: > In number theory it is very useful to have this norm-alisation, as > well as the square root one also called abs.  It's a

[sage-devel] Re: Guidelines for updating standard packages

2010-03-20 Thread Rishikesh
I have problem with #1 and #4 with #1 spkgs are almost always not created by the authors of the package. Compiler warnings happen in compiling almost every package. It will be too much expect that people creating spkg eliminate compiler warnings, even though the package compiles. with #4 I agree

[sage-devel] Question about reviewing

2009-12-21 Thread Rishikesh
I had written a wrapper to lcalc library. I should say that the code was pretty ugly before Yann refactored and it looks beautiful now. The question is: Can I give it a positive review? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an

[sage-devel] Re: upgrade of ECL and Maxima

2009-08-25 Thread r Rishikesh
After a long time, I can finally compile maxima on my laptop (linux on ppc g4). Rishi On Aug 24, 3:50 am, Alex Ghitza wrote: > Dear sage-devel, > > As David Kirkby pointed out, we have been working on upgrading ECL to > version 9.8.4 and Maxima to version 5.19.1.  There are several reasons > to

[sage-devel] Re:

2009-05-29 Thread r Rishikesh
I have a patch which is working (thanks to mabshoff for helping me remove the horrible memory leak in Tucson). The patch does not have doctests. It relies on a patch to lcalc itself. I have asked Mike Rubinstein to make it a part of lcalc. This was more than 2 months ago. I have not heard anyt

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-2.9.alpha4 released

2007-12-10 Thread Rishikesh
On mac os x, there were some very small errors. sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/numerical/optimize.py ** File "optimize.py", line 93: sage: find_maximum_on_interval(f, 0,5) Expected: (0.561096338191, 0.860333589015) Got:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-2.9.alpha4 released

2007-12-10 Thread Rishikesh
On Dec 10, 10:34 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 10, 2007 2:06 AM, mabshoff > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Alpha2 and Alpha3 never made it to the public due to some > > build issues and the slashdotting of sage.math. Alpha4 has > > many new goodies:

[sage-devel] Sage Days 3, Looking for roommate

2007-01-12 Thread Rishikesh
I looking for someone to share room during Sage Days 3. Please reply to this email. Rishi -- 88A Avondale Avenue S., Waterloo, ON, N2L 2B9 Tel: +1.519.745.8301 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.rishikesh.ca --~--~-~--~~~--

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE Days 3 Registration time ...

2007-01-10 Thread Rishikesh
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[sage-devel] Re: Speeding up integer arithmetic

2006-10-12 Thread R Rishikesh
liam > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:06:50 -0700, R Rishikesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It may be possible to minimize the intermediate object creation > > by introducing intermediate objects at the beginning of a block > > and reusing them (especial

[sage-devel] Re: Speeding up integer arithmetic

2006-10-12 Thread R Rishikesh
It may be possible to minimize the intermediate object creation by introducing intermediate objects at the beginning of a block and reusing them (especially in loops). example for i in range(100): f(a+i) is translated to c=0 for i in range(100): c.set_to_sum(a,i) This reduce