Re: [sage-devel] This year's bug days

2012-09-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
nder and in the Asia Pacific region in general. If there is ever a >> Sage workshop or bug days over in Australia, I (and perhaps Alex >> Ghitza?) >> would be interested in helping out with organizing the event. >> But I think the trend has been to organize Sage work

Re: [sage-devel] Re: LLL-variants

2012-08-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
rk on whatever interests you :) My experience with fplll (used from Sage or directly from C) has been very positive; it seems very fast and stable. So I'd love to see the version of fplll in Sage upgraded to something more recent (e.g. 4.0.0), and more of the fplll functionality wrapped in.

Re: [sage-devel] About rubiks

2012-07-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
dates the notion of optional spkgs in Sage. -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@g

Re: [sage-devel] And the 2012 Spies Sage Development Prize Winner is...

2012-06-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
w00t! well-deserved! -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For

Re: [sage-devel] please complain

2012-05-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
l definition of "cybersquatting" involves offering to sell back the domain to the original owner for a considerable amount, which as far as I know has not happened (yet?). -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org --

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in base_ring?

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
). So according to the documentation, z.base_ring() should return the base ring of F, i.e. GF(5). And that's what it returns. Am I missing something? -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send an e

[sage-devel] categories and element classes

2012-03-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
haven't succeeded. Can anyone point me to this? -- Best, Alex Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-

Re: [sage-devel] Re: categories and element classes

2012-03-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
pying what Sets does won't work here, but hopefully there's a (simple) modification that will work. Thanks again, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To u

Re: [sage-devel] Experimental Trac Server

2012-03-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
know if this can be done (I couldn't easily find it on the hacks page), but getting trac to send notifications when attachments are made to tickets would be nice. -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- To post to this

Re: [sage-devel] Re: python ints vs sage ints with respect to powers

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Ghitza
Sage rational, and Fraction() doesn't know what to do with that and (b) even if you do sage -python you will see different behaviour than in Python 3, e.g. Fraction(2/3) will return Fraction(0, 1) because in python 2.6 you have 2/3=0, while in python 3+ you have 2/3=0.6... I'm not

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
> [X] yes include it as standard > [] yes but have it as optional SPKG first > [] I don't care > [] no don't include Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-

Re: [sage-devel] size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
Oops, of course I forgot to actually add the cc. Done now. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Alex Ghitza wrote: > Dear John, > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:41 PM, John Cremona wrote: >> After building Sage the amount of filespace used is (as we all know) >> rather large.  

Re: [sage-devel] size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
ackage so quickly after each new Sage release). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr.

[sage-devel] leave of absence

2010-09-12 Thread Alex Ghitza
nd posting on sage-*. Until then, keep up the good work! Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an emai

Re: [sage-devel] Re: help me please

2010-09-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
a new ticket on trac.sagemath.org and describe the algorithm there. Mark it as "enhancement" and attach the Sage code you have; then you can work you way towards satisfying all the requirements for inclusion, and others can comment on it and provide help. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- htt

Re: [sage-devel] Busted maxima interface - anyone got a clue?

2010-08-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
into moving it to a spot with more room once I have some > time. OK, it now worked for me. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubsc

Re: [sage-devel] Busted maxima interface - anyone got a clue?

2010-08-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
to overlook, and hard to detect without running the tests a large number of times. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this grou

Re: [sage-devel] Busted maxima interface - anyone got a clue?

2010-08-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
cket/9843/trac_9843.patch' This particular patch is not very time-sensitive so I can wait :) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To uns

Re: [sage-devel] Busted maxima interface - anyone got a clue?

2010-08-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
one that knows enough about the Maxima interface to fix this. However, I do know that modular/overconvergent/weightspace.py has no reason to use Maxima. As soon as the trac server is working again, I'll have a patch for this small issue up at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9843

Re: [sage-devel] Arithmetic subgroups (comparison and method names)

2010-08-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
bgroup; g.is_conjugate(x) would be conjugacy of elements since g is a group element. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [sage-devel] Random banter about Sage standards

2010-08-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
be it's for some reason only seen on OpenSolaris. (No, I have no real reason to believe this other than doctesting that file 100 times on 32- and 64-bit Linux machines and not seeing any failure.) Maybe it's cosmic radiation (no, I'm not serious). Maybe it's the doctesting code getti

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage returns complex solutions to equation with real solutions

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
eople are likely to know what a polynomial *function* is, and we might not need to make them aware that it's not the same thing as a polynomial. But another bit that could go into the tutorial is some good examples where you want to use polynomials instead of symbolics. Best, Alex -- Alex

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please schedule a rebuild for sagemath on alpha architecture

2010-08-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
t way to check whether it's worth upgrading is to try it on sagenb.org. (Asking on the sage-support mailing list is another way.) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an

Re: [sage-devel] Re: complementary problem

2010-08-05 Thread Alex Ghitza
ey write such things by hand, where they're not bound by the ASCII character set (or even Unicode). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To u

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Some feature requests on SAGE - Adding Engineering to the target audience

2010-08-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
ble as an alternative to Matlab. If we take this so literally we would end up with either (a) 4 different ways of doing anything mirroring the syntax of each of Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab or (b) only the intersection of the four systems, which I think is pretty tiny. Best, Alex -- Alex G

Re: [sage-devel] is this kind of license Sage-compatible?

2010-07-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
; > FSF regularly and promptly answer GPL compatibility questions. It's > their specialty. We've written them many times. In particular, since they see many such questions, they may have already run across this particular license and figured out its compatibility. Best, Alex

Re: [sage-devel] permission to relicense wigner.py

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
h the proposal. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Fo

Re: [sage-devel] Sage & Singular -- slides from my talk

2010-07-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
y concern the Sage side of the interaction or the Singular side. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an

Re: [sage-devel] The Sage Nagbot

2010-07-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
ely to be able to review the ticket, it sends an email to them. > Some of you will thus get emails. > I just wrote this, so it surely isn't perfect. I love it :) Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To p

Re: [sage-devel] Does Sage 4.4.4 build on Fedora 13 or ArchLinux ?

2010-07-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:32:10 +1000, Alex Ghitza wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:58:20 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" > wrote: > > raises an error of ATLAS going into an infinite loop on Fedora 13. The > > submitter > > also believe people are having the same

Re: [sage-devel] Does Sage 4.4.4 build on Fedora 13 or ArchLinux ?

2010-07-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
on ArchLinux. Is this true? I have sage-4.4.4 on Arch Linux, but I believe it was an upgrade from an earlier version rather than a fresh build. I'll try to build from scratch and let you know what happens (it's going to take a while though). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://ag

Re: [sage-devel] Should build errors automatically report system information?

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
7;s quite likely that the user will not think to scroll back and see if there was anything s/he is meant to be doing next, and will miss the fact that we want them to let us know what happened. If the main instructions appear on the last screen, they're much more likely to be seen. Best, Al

Re: [sage-devel] Test your Python build

2010-06-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:29:57 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > On 06/24/10 01:26 AM, Alex Ghitza wrote: > > On: > > > > [ghi...@artin ~]$ uname -a > > Linux artin 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 19 00:07:49 CEST 2010 > > x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Opinions needed - method names for cones and fans

2010-06-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
/home/ghitza/sage-devel/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/misc/functional.py Definition: N(x, prec=None, digits=None) Docstring: Returns a numerical approximation of x with at least prec bits of precision. Note: Both upper case N and lower case n are alias

Re: [sage-devel] Python's end statement

2010-06-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
n't get an error you won't notice it; in this case, if we remove "end" we need to deprecate it first, otherwise a bunch of people's code won't work any more :) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University

Re: [sage-devel] Test your Python build

2010-06-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
ll systems. On: [ghi...@artin ~]$ uname -a Linux artin 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 19 00:07:49 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I got the following: 1 test failed: test_distutils Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ L

Re: [sage-devel] sagenotebook vs codenode

2010-06-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:40:06 +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > It does not support interacts > > Can you explain what you mean by "interacts"? http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The U

[sage-devel] using server_pool to balance load across several machines?

2010-06-15 Thread Alex Ghitza
ngs I need to be careful about in this context? Thanks, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an

Re: [sage-devel] Re: pushing towards 90% doctest coverage for Sage 5.0

2010-06-15 Thread Alex Ghitza
d? > > This would be good to have. See http://wiki.sagemath.org/doc5 for a very basic page listing what my detective skills found on trac. Since my mindreader skills are very limited, please add any modules that you are working on. It's really a pain if you get scooped ;) Best

Re: [sage-devel] Category test suites

2010-06-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
Suite doctests for a couple of classes. It's not a great example since you have to wade through 120KB of code, but maybe it can help. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an emai

Re: [sage-devel] pushing towards 90% doctest coverage for Sage 5.0

2010-06-12 Thread Alex Ghitza
that brings the coverage of databases/cremona.py to 34/40. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an ema

[sage-devel] questions about sage/databases/*

2010-06-12 Thread Alex Ghitza
r these classes inheriting from Database is _test_pickling(), and this fails. Is this something that we should look into fixing, or does is just not make sense to pickle a Database? 4. Is tables.py now superseded by cremona.py and odlyzko.py? Thanks, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Singular: Is 'flex' needed to build Sage?

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Ghitza
am not convinced that testing only libs/singular/ and interfaces/singular.py is sufficient to conclude this. Functionality from various parts of Singular is used all over the Sage library. I would be a bit more confident if a global "make testlong" was run, or at the very least if sag

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: release of NZMATH 1.0 (system for number theory)

2010-06-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
et/9161 > > first. Hi William, I tried the spkg, and it appears to work fine. I noticed that hg status was complaining about the files in src/, so I made a simple .hgignore to get rid of that. I also added some more information to SPKG.txt. The updated spkg is linked to on the ticket.

Re: [sage-devel] Toric varieties - ready for review (please!)

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
a little while ago about the schemes patches, and I said I would soon have some time to review them. Well, I still don't have time :( but I'll try to do some of this anyway. In fact, I'll go and look at them right now. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lectu

Re: [sage-devel] gcc 4.5 is not the latest - gcc 4.4.4 is !!

2010-05-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
Thanks Willem, William, and anybody else who was involved in this effort!) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, s

Re: [sage-devel] get @parallel to nice the subprocesses

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
n. I just keep forgetting to do it, and then when I have sage running together with 10 or so subprocesses, they all show up as "python" in top and it's not obvious which one was the parent process. But indeed renicing sage right after starting it does the trick. Best, Alex -- Ale

[sage-devel] get @parallel to nice the subprocesses

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
started to have lower priority, in other words I would like them to be "reniced" automatically. Is there a clever way of doing this? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, se

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Missing bit in the number theory tutorial

2010-04-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:45:31 -0700 (PDT), Simon King wrote: > Hi John! > > On 20 Apr., 13:38, John Cremona wrote: > > Other than Q I guess. > > Thank you! > > While we are at it: What is the German translation of "isogeny"? > "die Isogenie&q

Re: [sage-devel] TestSuite: _test_category() for an element

2010-04-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
gt; sage: S = Semigroups().example() > sage: S?? And thanks for these references. I was looking for information around these areas but not exactly at this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To

Re: [sage-devel] TestSuite: _test_category() for an element

2010-04-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
class It's definitely not a stupid question. In fact, I think it's precisely what's happening here, and what Nicolas also suggested to me. I'll try this out later today. Thanks a lot, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The Universi

Re: [sage-devel] Trac E-Mail notifications and components

2010-04-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more opti

Re: [sage-devel] TestSuite: _test_category() for an element

2010-04-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
, ] sage: e.parent().category().element_class.mro() [, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ] Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.c

Re: [sage-devel] TestSuite: _test_category() for an element

2010-04-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
be able to reproduce it exactly because SiegelModularFormsAlgebra is not in Sage yet) sage: p = SiegelModularFormsAlgebra() sage: e = p.0 sage: isinstance(e, p.category().element_class) False sage: pmro = p.category().element_class.__mro__ sage: emro = e.__mro__ sage: pmro == emro True sage: pmro

[sage-devel] TestSuite: _test_category() for an element

2010-04-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
as over Integer Ring" and self.parent().category().element_class is "". What am I missing? One would hope that an AlgebraElement is an instance of the element class of an Algebra, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Bug: Elliptic Curve Point Counting

2010-04-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
Oops, this somehow passed completely under my radar... On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:32:22 +0100, John Cremona wrote: > I am also willing to help upgrade to pari 2.4. Maybe Alex Ghitza > would also join in -- he and I worked well together fixing a lot of > pari precision issues in 2008. I&#

Re: [sage-devel] glitch on arch linux + fix

2010-04-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
l, etc. I bet a number of these were related to the openssl upgrade, including, indeed, python. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsub

[sage-devel] glitch on arch linux + fix

2010-04-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
"/home/ghitza/sage-devel/local/bin/sage-ipython", line 18, in import IPython File "/home/ghitza/sage-devel/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/__init__.py", line 58, in __import__(name,glob,loc,[]) File "/home/ghitza/sage-devel/local/lib/python

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Happy Ada Lovelace Day

2010-04-09 Thread Alex Ghitza
ion of genera * Charlotte (Charlie) Turner made several contributions to the algebraic geometry code Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.c

Re: [sage-devel] Bash completion for Sage

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
a big fan of bash completion, so I'm definitely interested. You should at least put it on the wiki to start with. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
at you use as many of them as possible. I'm not saying that t2 is a dream machine for Sage development, but that it's what we have and there are ways of using it more efficiently than running "make testlong" (or for that matter running 100 threads). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghi

Re: [debian-sage] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Debian package...

2010-03-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
w.sagemath.org or build it yourself from source. If you insist on running this version, type ./sage -yes_i_know_its_ridiculous_but_i_want_to_anyway ** What do you think? Too over-the-top? Best, Alex -- Alex

[sage-devel] testing on t2

2010-03-12 Thread Alex Ghitza
opment release of sage; this should have already gone through one round of "make ptestlong" so that the parallel testing timing information is already present; maybe it should also have NUM_THREADS=32 (or whatever the optimal t2 value is) preset in "makefile" 2. fix the pe

Re: [sage-devel] anonymous reviewing of trac tickets? trac moderators?

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
it is *extremely* easy to misinterpret innocent jokes or comments. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, sen

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.4.alpha1 successfully builds on SPARC Solaris 10 (t2.math)

2010-03-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
ng threads=cores does not give anywhere near the performance possible. > Of > course, you don't want to bring 't2' to its knees, but it is not heavily used. > We have to be careful here and experiment some more before recommending a number. A couple of weeks ago I tr

Re: [sage-devel] pari precision

2010-03-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
bsequent computations with that bnf. I could be wrong though, because I didn't manage to find an example to test this on. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sa

Re: [sage-devel] sage days: Leiden Poster

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
ght help restrict the pictorial possibilities... Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Increase timeout for doc tests

2010-02-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
ave a look at the following ticket: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8263 where SAGE_TIMEOUT, SAGE_TIMEOUT_LONG, and SAGE_TIMEOUT_VALGRIND are described together with their default values. Just reset them to whatever you think is appropriate for your machine. Best, Alex -- Alex G

Re: [sage-devel] bug on sage.combinat.tableau.insert_word() (trac #8322)

2010-02-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:22:48 +1100, Alex Ghitza wrote: > It looks good to me, with one exception: "Author(s)" refers to the > authors of the patch(es) or other code attached to the ticket, not to > the person creating the ticket itself (that's covered by "Reported b

Re: [sage-devel] bug on sage.combinat.tableau.insert_word() (trac #8322)

2010-02-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
s there to give details on a ticket that's marked as "needs_work". I hope this makes sense. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To u

Re: [sage-devel] Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-02-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
illiant worksheets is of course very good, but less likely to happen very quickly, since it's much more work. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegr

Re: [sage-devel] Re: complex.h: present but cannot be compiled

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
ve precise generic instructions in regards to prerequisites, etc. It might be good for us to collect these distribution-specific issues and put them, for instance, on the wiki. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Austr

Re: [sage-devel] mercurial on t2

2010-02-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
n t2.math. > Here is how I source the GCC version I use on t2.math in my .profile: > > if [ `uname -s` = "SunOS" ]; then > # Sun linker/asembler > . /usr/local/gcc-4.4.1-sun-linker/gcc441sun > fi And this did indeed fix it for me. Thanks Minh and David! Be

[sage-devel] request for comments: pslq in sage

2010-02-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
Note that I did some initial testing and this builds and seems to work fine on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, and on Solaris on t2.) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: mercurial on t2

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:51:02 -0800 (PST), John H Palmieri wrote: > I get the same error message on t2, but "sage -hg" works for me (at > least if I use the system-wide installation of Sage advertised when I > log in) Thanks, that indeed did the trick. Best, Alex --

[sage-devel] mercurial on t2

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
es is not working so well. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@

Re: [sage-devel] Doc tests - why not write the exact of high precision result?

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
have any available at this very moment to check.) We can however use mpmath, octave, or whatever other suitably-licensed software for independent verifications of numerical results. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -

Re: [sage-devel] complex.h: present but cannot be compiled

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
your package manager? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] trac 7004: Refactor the graph layout code, and add interface with graphviz

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:44:38 +0100, "Nicolas M. Thiery" wrote: > I just put on http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/CoolPictures a few > pictures produced using this patch. Hi Nicolas, Cool pictures indeed. Can you also post the Sage code for generating them? Best, Alex

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.2 spkg dependency graph

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
and interesting problem to solve (curve edges to avoid > edges they aren't incident with?) ^ should be vertices. This sounds like a good idea though. Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~a

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
f documenting these things; "bus factor" is an issue that has been raised among Sage devels before, and your work is a great contribution to attenuating it. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 4.3.2.rc0 released

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
yes Doctest: long tests pass -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsub

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
ing for the merge -- in fact, I remember Nicolas Thiery going half crazy at some point over the category framework, and eventually sage-combinat got their own branch where they can keep writing new code and periodically push things into the main Sage branch. But this means that Nicolas is now (on a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: abs() for (very) long integers?

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
the appropriate norm in the cyclotomic field that is > erroneously returned! I suggest QQ(d).abs() :) Good point. I like QQ(d).abs(). Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this grou

Re: [sage-devel] Re: abs() for (very) long integers?

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
degree 1 > sage: type(M.determinant()) > 'sage.rings.number_field.number_field_element.NumberFieldElement_absolute'> Option: sage: d = M.determinant() sage: d.norm().abs() # take norm to get an integer 712483534798848 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Ma

Re: [sage-devel] sage library code swarm video

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
stead. If you're not convinced, the following excerpt comes directly from the Macaulay web page: "Wait! It's 2003. That 70's haircut really has to go. While you're at it, are you sure you want this program? It warms our hearts every time we hear of a diehard Ma

Re: [sage-devel] sage library code swarm video

2010-02-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
flashy. Could you send me the configuration file you > used? You can have a look at http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/ghitza/codeswarm-0.1/data/ The config files are in there. Quite a bit of work went into replacing various email addresses with actual people's names, since I like that

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.2.alpha1 released

2010-02-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
res out what to do). Sometimes there are changes that make an upgrade impossible, but it's pretty rare. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.2.alpha1 released

2010-02-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
much about it right now. -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+uns

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.2.alpha1 released

2010-02-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
aturday 06th February 2010, Pacific time. The upcoming rc0 release is > strictly for bug fixes. A major new feature in this release is having > Dan Drake's SageTeX package in the standard spkg repository. > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melb

Re: [sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
it strange that this occurred. I'm not claiming that the scenario that you laid out could not occur; I just wanted to clarify what happened in the case in question. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb

Re: [sage-devel] Does gcc 4.4.3 present problems building Sage ?

2010-01-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
e. But I then rebuilt sage-4.3.1 with gcc 4.4.3 without problems. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: [sage-devel] Rational polynomials via FLINT (#4000)

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
hree patches by Robert Bradshaw from #383) and, at least on my > machine and another departmental machine, passed all doctests. > However, when Alex Ghitza had a look at this, he noticed a doctest > failure with his setup. It turns out that he can already produce an > error with the c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: gap vs guava - why was it merged?

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
ber field elements gets fixed, replace the said doctest with the one using sorted() This would my proposal for irreducible_characters(). For word_problem(), I still think that returning a sorted list is a good idea, but I'd like to know what David thinks. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza

[sage-devel] comparison of elements of number fields

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
hematical sense as possible given the circumstances. Reactions? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from t

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 4.3.0.1 released for SPARC Solaris 10 with GCC

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
y the same as Sage > 4.3.1.alpha0 [1]. The build of Sage 4.3.0.1 is still going on t2.math. > Minh, when the build is done, can you do a bdist and post the link to the resulting binary? (This way if I want to test something on t2 I can just grab that, rather than build my own.) Thanks, Alex

Re: [sage-devel] Re: gap vs guava - why was it merged?

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
0, -1, -1, -1, 1], [4, -1, -4, 1, 0, 0, 0, > 0]]) > Yes, this is also what I am getting. Interesting. I can't investigate this right now -- I should get some sleep. I'll try to look into it tomorrow evening. I'll also test the spkg that you linked to on trac. Best, Alex

Re: [sage-devel] Re: gap vs guava - why was it merged?

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
re doing the same operations across, so the table won't get "out of sync", it will just be ordered differently. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: gap vs guava - why was it merged?

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
e, but that computers will reliably always get the same answer. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: [sage-devel] Re: gap vs guava - why was it merged?

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
m in irreducible_characters(), then as soon as someone adds more doctests that just iterate through irreducible_characters(), we are again prone to breakage at upgrades, etc. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unime

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