Re: [sage-devel] problem building mpir

2017-10-02 Thread mhampton
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[sage-devel] problem building mpir

2017-10-02 Thread mhampton
Hi, I'm having trouble building either 8.0 or 8.1.beta6, it halts at mpir. The log for that is here: http://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/mpir-3.0.0.p0.log I see that some other people had problems on skylake machines, but I have a "late 2013" macbook pro, the cpu is an i5-4288U

[sage-devel] Re: The 2013 Spies Prize winner is...

2013-06-22 Thread mhampton
Excellent choice, congratulations Jeroen! -Marshall -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group

[sage-devel] Re: Is there a reason why Polyhedron only accepts QQ and RDF?

2013-05-20 Thread mhampton
Our main backends for polyhedral computation, ppl and cddlib, only accept those inputs. Most alternatives also have those limitations (e.g. lrs). It would be great to have more general polyhedral methods but it would take some substantial work. As far as I know, no one is actively working on

[sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-05-02 Thread mhampton
I have started writing something on using Sage for bioinformatics, although it isn't very far along. This sounds like a pretty good fit for that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving e

[sage-devel] Re: Simulation in Sage

2013-02-11 Thread mhampton
I think this could be valuable, but it is not clear to me what SimPy can do. We definitely need more capability for simulation with interactive controls in Sage. If SimPy is all Tkinter-based, it might be hard to incorporate it into the notebook. At the moment the most promising route forward th

[sage-devel] You are appreciated

2013-01-11 Thread mhampton
I guess this is becoming a tradition: passing on thanks to Sage developers from the joint math meetings exhibit booth. Many people stop by the booth just to express their thanks for Sage and its continued development. This year, this might even be the majority of our visitors (although there a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: JMM 2013 Sage Booth

2012-12-05 Thread mhampton
Oh yeah - I can bring a copy of our book. I'll try to get my copy of Finch's Sage Beginner's Guide back from my TA and bring that too. -Marshall On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:27:10 AM UTC-6, Dan Drake wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 at 10:13PM -0700, David Roe wrote: > > Another thing that

[sage-devel] Re: JMM 2013 Sage Booth

2012-12-04 Thread mhampton
I can help out at the booth. I have a couple of obligations (giving a talk and attending a committee meeting) but otherwise I can spend most of the time at the booth I think. I haven't registered yet so it would be great to have a badge if that offer is still open. -Marshall On Monday, Decem

[sage-devel] Re: mathematica 9

2012-11-28 Thread mhampton
"...we started a quarter century ago attacking core areas of mathematics". -- true in more than one way. "So in Mathematica 9, one thing we’ve added is built-in integration with the R statistics language." -- that's interesting. I think R has really won in the realm of advanced statistics. You

[sage-devel] Re: Bunch of small changes to sage/gsl/interpolation.pyx

2012-09-25 Thread mhampton
It seems safer to return a copy and not a reference. The documentation does make it clear that it returns a reference, so it can't really be called a bug. My guess is that there isn't any code out there that exploits that though, so I would vote to not bother with a deprecation warning. -Ma

[sage-devel] Re: Voronoi diagram

2012-09-21 Thread mhampton
There is support for this in qhull, at least numerically. This is somewhat wrapped by Scipy: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.spatial.Delaunay.html It would be great to integrate that and your other suggestions into PointConfigurations as Volker suggests. -Marshall H

[sage-devel] Re: Vote: should CHomP be a standard spkg?

2012-07-13 Thread mhampton
[X ] Yes > The versioning issue sounds a little annoying but not serious enough to stop it from being a standard package. As far as I know, nobody has had a problem installing the optional spkg - it should not be a major burden to maintain. CHomP provides some additional functionality that

[sage-devel] Re: reviewer needed for #13239: contract edges in graphs

2012-07-12 Thread mhampton
I reviewed this to the best of my ability, and gave it a positive review, but folks who care more about graphs might want to take a look. -Marshall On Jul 12, 11:30 am, Dan Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I'm at the Sage-combinat Days meeting at the IMA and I just helped a new > graph theory developer

[sage-devel] trac is overloaded?

2012-07-07 Thread mhampton
I can't get on to trac, it keeps returning "OperationalError: FATAL: connection limit exceeded for non-superusers". -Marshall -- -- 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 m

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

2012-06-20 Thread mhampton
Congratulations Jason! Very good choice. -Marshall On Jun 18, 11:32 pm, William Stein wrote: > ... Jason Grout! > > CITATION: > > Jason Grout is a constant presence across the Sage landscape.  He is > extremely active in the discussion groups, comments on many tickets, > contributes code to the

[sage-devel] problem installing TOPCOM optional package

2012-06-19 Thread mhampton
I got an error I haven't seen before while trying to install the TOPCOM optional package on sage-5.1.beta5. This is on linux (Kubuntu 11.10). The tail of the install log is: /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -L/media/T3b/ sagestuff/sage-5.1.beta5/local/lib -lcddgmp -L/media/T3b/

[sage-devel] Re: sage cells on Sage wiki work

2012-04-06 Thread mhampton
Fantastic! On Apr 6, 5:41 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > You can now put live sage code on the wiki.  Just enclose the code like > thus: > > {{{#!sagecell > > print 1+1 > > }}} > > and a sage cell will be embedded into the wiki.  For example, see the > interact on this page: > > http://wiki.sagemath.or

[sage-devel] Re: Call for vote: remove MoinMoin?

2012-03-30 Thread mhampton
Should we remove MoinMoin as a standard package? I think that would be OK, most users probably have no idea its in there now. I used to use it through Sage for some collaborative work, but being packaged in Sage doesn't really have any extra added value. With the improvements in notebook editing (

[sage-devel] Re: Preschoolers Education

2012-02-28 Thread mhampton
Scratch is great. Its been very successful for me in introducing my daughter to programming. I don't see much possible interaction with Sage, since Scratch is written in Squeak, and it has a custom (although quite permissive) license. It might provide some inspiration for making some sort of vis

[sage-devel] Re: Create numpy-functions from sage symbolic functions

2012-01-27 Thread mhampton
Well, I think that looks very useful. I often get frustrated using numpy in Sage, this looks like it would make quite a few things easier. So you get a +1 from me at least. -Marshall Hampton On Jan 27, 12:27 pm, Maximilian Trescher wrote: > Hi @all, > > I'm very new to the developers list. > A

[sage-devel] Re: Literal matrix syntax

2012-01-26 Thread mhampton
> Should [a, b; c, d] be a valid syntax for matrix construction in Sage? > > [x ] Yes, I love this syntax! It would be make life better for me and > my students. > Why? This makes it easier to win over people used to Matlab. > > Should the default basering be more linear-algebra friendly? E.g. R

[sage-devel] Re: 3D animation with Sage (of Tachyon pngs)

2012-01-20 Thread mhampton
Hi, When I do animations with tachyon, I use the tachyon object interface (i.e. Tachyon()). With this you can control everything. -Marshall Hampton On Jan 20, 11:28 am, Sébastien Labbé wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to make a 3D animation with Sage using Tachyon images. > Result is here : > > http

[sage-devel] Re: On non-released development versions

2012-01-16 Thread mhampton
Jeroen, I find your explanation quite clear. I really like having the non-officially-released versions from home/ release/ available, especially because of your excellent documentation of tickets merged and other logs. Thanks for all of your fantastic work. -Marshall On Jan 16, 2:09 pm, Jeroen

[sage-devel] Re: Patch for numerical noise in stats/hmm/chmm.pyx (#12283) needs review

2012-01-09 Thread mhampton
OK, I checked it out and have given it a positive review (see comments on the ticket). -Marshall On Jan 9, 9:05 am, Keshav Kini wrote: > A link to the trac ticket page (the above links to the raw patch file): > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12283 > > -Keshav > > > Join us in #

[sage-devel] Re: ZODB: remove it from Sage?

2011-12-20 Thread mhampton
As far as I know, there are no other uses of ZODB other than what William mentioned. Of course many people know Sage better than I do but I thought I would affirm its lack of importance in the areas that I tend to work on. -Marshall On Dec 20, 5:48 am, Keshav Kini wrote: > Necrobump! Gentoo is

[sage-devel] Re: sage days in January?

2011-10-28 Thread mhampton
We are the e^(4.59511985013459)% ! -Marshall On Oct 28, 3:52 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > On Friday, October 28, 2011 1:42:25 PM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 3:40 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > > > For the last few years, we've had a Sage Days following the AMS/MAA > > > Joint Meetings.  A

[sage-devel] Re: small problem with polyhedra.py

2011-09-11 Thread mhampton
I think your suggestion makes sense at least in the short term. I admit my own frustration with the current plotting code means I tend to write my own functions to extract and plot the vertices, edges, and faces so I've been lazy about fixing things. -Marshall On Sep 10, 5:49 pm, davidp wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: problem installing 4ti2 spkg

2011-09-11 Thread mhampton
It would be nice if someone could review http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8217 since that package version (at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhampton/4ti2-1.3.2.p1.spkg) is more up to date. -Marshall Hampton On Sep 11, 1:17 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > When I log in

[sage-devel] Re: 2011 Spies Sage Development Prize

2011-07-19 Thread mhampton
Congratulations to Robert. While his technical contributions obviously more than qualify him for this award, I have always been equally impressed by his willingness to help on sage-support and other forums (and in person), as well as his thoughtful contributions to sometimes heated discussions. H

[sage-devel] Re: Javascript spreadsheet in Sage worksheet

2011-06-26 Thread mhampton
That looks fantastically useful. It is impossible to overstate how big a draw this could be. -Marshall On Jun 25, 10:41 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > (A continuation > ofhttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/669c9c...) > > A spreadsheet in Sage.  Social Calc is by Dan Brickl

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestions for Puiseux Expansion Implementation Location

2011-05-01 Thread mhampton
It would be great to have Puiseux series in Sage. Hierarchically it seems it might make sense as a seperate module in rings/polynomial, just as laurent_series_ring.py. It seems a little categorically confusing (but perhaps convenient?) to add these as a method to polynomials. Are you reusing any

[sage-devel] Sage on Ars Technica

2011-04-13 Thread mhampton
Sage gets a pretty positive review as a language for scientific computing on page 2 of this article: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/high-performance-computing-on-gamer-pcs-part-2-the-software-choices.ars -Marshall -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.c

[sage-devel] Re: http://flask.sagenb.org -- test it!!!

2011-03-28 Thread mhampton
Hey Harald (et al)- I am wondering if this is a general bug in the sage notebook - I seem to be having this problem with sage-4.7.alpha2 (not running the flask notebook, just the usual one). Can someone else try this to confirm? -Marshall On Mar 27, 4:56 am, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Saturday

[sage-devel] Re: Sage book - expected to be released in May 2011

2011-03-28 Thread mhampton
Presumably this is the blog of the author: http://www.shocksolution.com If so, his background is more in scientific computing than most Sage developers, and it seems like a good thing to have a book out that might appeal to that audience. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@goo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage presence at FoCM, ICIAM?

2011-03-26 Thread mhampton
I'll be at ICIAM, but I think its too late to get any sort of official presence. Its too bad, since it would be a great place to advertise our extistence. -Marshall Hampton On Mar 25, 10:36 pm, Paul Leopardi wrote: > Hi all, > Not sure if this is the right list, but I was wondering what presenc

[sage-devel] Re: http://flask.sagenb.org -- test it!!!

2011-03-26 Thread mhampton
No, they don't work currently in published worksheets. That would be a tricky security issue to solve (but it would be very nice!). -M. Hampton On Mar 26, 7:24 am, Juanlu001 wrote: > It seems to me that @interact plots in published worksheets don't work > (in fact, I just don't know if they hav

[sage-devel] Re: http://flask.sagenb.org -- test it!!!

2011-03-25 Thread mhampton
Seems very nice so far, I've tried running some @parallel stuff, interacts, notebook cython cells. No problems so far and it seems pretty fast. -Marshall On Mar 25, 9:04 pm, William Stein wrote: > Quick followup:  Thanks to work of Rado,http://flask.sagenb.org > supports OpenID, so everybody ca

[sage-devel] Re: Problem building sage from source

2011-03-22 Thread mhampton
I don't really understand those error messages, but they look like they are only coming from the documentation builds. Can you start up Sage itself (i.e. do "./sage" from the top-level sage directory)? -M. Hampton On Mar 22, 6:07 pm, jtyard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm unable to successfully build sage

[sage-devel] Re: Sage special session at AMS/MAA joint meetings in 2012?

2011-03-16 Thread mhampton
a booth... > David > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 20:44, mhampton wrote: > > Its pretty easy to propose a special session, its just an early > > deadline: this year its April 2nd, and "Late proposals will not be > > considered." > > > The page is

[sage-devel] Re: Differential Geometry via Sage: Parametrized Surface

2011-03-15 Thread mhampton
I'd like to take a look at this - I have a few days of spring break left, after that it won't happen. For a somewhat complicated, revised ticket like this it helps someone like me (and the release manager) if you keep the ticket description up to date with exactly which patches (or other files, sp

[sage-devel] Re: Sage special session at AMS/MAA joint meetings in 2012?

2011-03-15 Thread mhampton
Its pretty easy to propose a special session, its just an early deadline: this year its April 2nd, and "Late proposals will not be considered." The page is here: http://www.ams.org/meetings/national/jmm2012/2138_ssrequest Basically you email Michel Lapidus: lapi...@math.ucr.edu. -Marshall On Ma

[sage-devel] Re: Support contracts for commercial customers.

2011-02-26 Thread mhampton
I don't have much of a sense about how much such advertising costs, but intuitively I'm pretty sure that our booths at the AMS meetings are extremely cost-effective in comparison. If possible we should try to have booths at other similar meetings in the future. I'm planning on going to the ICIAM

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Feedback on Tachyon APIs used by SAGE, etc..

2011-02-11 Thread mhampton
Great, thanks a lot! I am looking forward to the updated version and docs. Another link you might want to look at is my patch improving some documentation for Sage, which also tries to extend the support for different projection options. Its at: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9855 S

[sage-devel] Re: Free advertising on Stack Overflow

2011-01-26 Thread mhampton
Very nice, I like it. -Marshall On Jan 26, 8:21 pm, Eviatar wrote: > I changed the bottom text: > > http://tinyurl.com/68e5n6z -- 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 mo

[sage-devel] Re: preparser is affecting commands like 'cd', 'mv', etc.

2011-01-19 Thread mhampton
I don't like to assume the existence of IPython for portability reasons, so I usually just use something like err = os.system('mv tmp0-50/output-02*.png some-other-directory') A little more to type I guess, but safer I think. -Marshall On Jan 19, 6:33 am, Niles wrote: > On Jan 18, 1:00 pm, Mike

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-18 Thread mhampton
On Jan 17, 12:38 pm, Simon King wrote: > Is there any place that automatically provides the latest stable resp. > the latest unstable official release? > > Can I expect that I will later be able to upgrade from the current > alpha1 to the official sage-4.6.2? > > Best regards, > Simon My under

[sage-devel] Re: documentation rebuild - how to force?

2011-01-13 Thread mhampton
Fantastic, that worked, thanks very much John. -Marshall On Jan 13, 4:11 pm, mhampton wrote: > I tried deleting the entire doc/output directory, that didn't work (I > don't remember precisely in what way since I tried many different > things). > > I will give your "

[sage-devel] Re: documentation rebuild - how to force?

2011-01-13 Thread mhampton
I tried deleting the entire doc/output directory, that didn't work (I don't remember precisely in what way since I tried many different things). I will give your "sage -docbuild reference html -S -a,-E" a shot, that sounds promising. On Jan 13, 2:41 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > On Jan 13, 11:25 

[sage-devel] documentation rebuild - how to force?

2011-01-13 Thread mhampton
I've been having a lot of trouble forcing the reference manual to update after cloning a new branch and applying patches. I've tried touching various files, deleting various files, all sort of things and nothing seems to work. I suspect I need to pass some sort of option to sphinx. Any insight i

[sage-devel] trac seems down or very slow...

2011-01-12 Thread mhampton
Wednesday morning, maybe bug days put a burden on something... -- 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 options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage

[sage-devel] Re: Riemann sums , trapezoid mode

2011-01-11 Thread mhampton
It is a Riemann sum with a non-constant width. The usual definition allows that as long as the widths of each interval have a limit of zero. -Marshall On Jan 11, 9:51 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > On 1/11/11 6:06 PM, Gagan Sekhon wrote: > > > Currently, both riemann_sum and riemann_sum_integral_appr

[sage-devel] Re: mackichan software is interested in integrating sage

2011-01-07 Thread mhampton
I think he would be interested in something like the simple_server API: http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sagenb/simple/twist.html ...but I don't understand it well enough so I didn't try to explain it to him (Barry MacKichan). Currently MacKichan uses mupad as a backend; the acquisition by

[sage-devel] Re: Community thanks

2011-01-07 Thread mhampton
> > Can you post a picture of the booth with some people around? > >  -- William Sadly I forgot to grab my camera for this trip but maybe we can find someone tomorrow to do that. -Marshall -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, se

[sage-devel] Community thanks

2011-01-06 Thread mhampton
The Sage booth at the joint mathematics meetings is going pretty well, and I think it was worth doing. It is very useful for advertising our existence, capabilities, and future plans. Many people stopped by to express their appreciation for Sage and the efforts of its developers. I think that in

[sage-devel] Re: Exhibit booth for 2011 joint meetings

2010-12-21 Thread mhampton
Rob, it would be great if you could make stickers again. I meant to bring this up earlier but I've been swamped with other duties. Hopefully you can be reimbursed for it. Perhaps 500 stickers is enough for this event. I am going to place an order for sage business cards, but I was thinking of pe

[sage-devel] Re: CHomP: make it an optional package (instead of experimental)?

2010-12-16 Thread mhampton
+1 I haven't had any trouble compiling CHomP on a variety of linux and OS X machines. It seems like high quality code that easily qualifies for optional status. -Marshall On Dec 16, 6:52 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > Right now, CHomP is an experimental spkg for Sage.  I propose that it > be opt

[sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-08 Thread mhampton
+1. I think it usually makes sense to stick with numpy conventions (which are in turn mostly designed to follow matlab). -Marshall On Dec 3, 10:38 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > In numpy, the conjugate transpose is A.H, the transpose is A.T, and the > inverse is A.I.  I'd love if we adopted those sho

[sage-devel] Re: Polymake/ Are the Sage polytope constructors (too) slow?

2010-12-03 Thread mhampton
On Dec 2, 8:52 am, jplab wrote: > I'm a student currently at Techniche Universität Berlin, so Polymake > is quite the most "popular" software when dealing with polytopes as it > was created here some years ago. I went through the threads about > Polymake in Sage-devel... if I may summarize what

[sage-devel] Re: sage/homology/examples.py doctest timeout in the latest 4.6.1.alpha2

2010-11-17 Thread mhampton
Pretty good example of why CHomP is worth including! -Marshall On Nov 17, 9:30 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > On Nov 17, 5:45 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > > On Nov 17, 4:59 pm, François Bissey wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > After building 4.6.1.alpha2 (16 Nov 2010 13:35) I and one other >

[sage-devel] Re: building sage took more then 24h now

2010-11-16 Thread mhampton
There are some pretty big experimental packages, so perhaps its "normal". But it doesn't seem like a good idea; some of those packages have overlaps (vtk-related ones for example), and are hard to build, so I think there's a good chance you'll get a bunch of broken pieces. -M.Hampton On Nov 16,

[sage-devel] Re: spreadsheet in Sage -- or Sage calculations in a spreadsheet?

2010-11-09 Thread mhampton
I agree with Dan, it would be fantastic to have a spreadsheet that accepted sage code into cells. I can use excel to some extent, but I don't like it. Importing just doesn't cut it. -Marshall On Nov 9, 4:54 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > On 11/ 9/10 10:41 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > > > > >http://

[sage-devel] Re: 4.6 build - Atlas fails on Ubuntu 10.10 on amd turion X2 laptop

2010-11-05 Thread mhampton
Depending on what those Firefox tabs were, they could have put a significant load on your CPU (Flash ads for example) or used enough memory to make atlas work too hard. It would be interesting to know if it works if you aren't running anything else. What is your processor and amount of RAM? -M.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage equivalent for Mathematica's GraphicsGrid (or Inset)?

2010-11-03 Thread mhampton
I think graphics_array is the closest. -M.Hampton On Nov 3, 3:26 pm, kj wrote: > Is there a Sage equivalent for Mathematica's GraphicsGrid function? > If not, how about an equivalent for its Inset function? > > If neither is available, any advice on rolling my own GraphicsGrid in > Sage would be

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Request to review Sagemath Beginners Guide

2010-10-30 Thread mhampton
Rob, It would be great to have an English version of that book, I agree that its very good. I would be willing to pitch in a bit to a team translation effort. My French is not good but I think I could slog through part of it - other people in my family might check my work if I can talk them into

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Request to review Sagemath Beginners Guide

2010-10-30 Thread mhampton
On Oct 29, 9:08 pm, David Kirkby wrote: > I think Sage would gain a bit more creditability if there were books > on it published from places like Springer or Wiley. > > Good luck to anyone that has written a book on Sage. > > Dave David Joyner and I are working on a book for introductory differ

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days 27: Jan 7 - 13, 2011

2010-10-28 Thread mhampton
Can you (and anyone else reading this who wants to volunteer) add yourself to: http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2011 ? Thanks, Marshall On Oct 28, 6:27 pm, Dan Drake wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 02:00PM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > > On Oct 28, 3:56 pm, William Stein wrote: > > > Hi Sage Devel (and B

[sage-devel] Re: Make Parma Polyhedra Library a standard spkg

2010-10-19 Thread mhampton
Gfan does a lot more than compute the Groebner fan. My main use for it is computing tropical prevarieties. Anders Jensen keeps improving gfan, and in fact our interface to it doesn't wrap all the current functionality. I think it would be quite a job to replace it. -Marshall On Oct 19, 11:53 a

[sage-devel] Re: Make Parma Polyhedra Library a standard spkg

2010-10-19 Thread mhampton
I strongly object to removing gfan. -Marshall On Oct 19, 9:53 am, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, mhampton wrote: > > I support replacing cddlib with PPL for the default computation of > > exact polyhedra. > > Does gfan depend on cddlib?  If we re

[sage-devel] Re: Make Parma Polyhedra Library a standard spkg

2010-10-19 Thread mhampton
I support replacing cddlib with PPL for the default computation of exact polyhedra. Eventually I would really like to see lrs as a standard component as well, because: 1) It is small and compiles on all our supported platforms. 2) David Avis has always been very responsive to any emails about lrs.

[sage-devel] Re: libpari segfault related to 64bit?

2010-10-15 Thread mhampton
One more data point: on Ubuntu 10.10, sage-4.6.alpha3, grep /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz uname -a: Linux sancho 2.6.35-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Sun Oct 10 09:26:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linu I do not get the segfault. -Marshall On Oct 15, 3:31 am

[sage-devel] Re: libpari segfault related to sage-4.5.3?i

2010-10-14 Thread mhampton
Its 64-bit linux, built from the sage-4.6.alpha3 source. -Marshall On Oct 14, 6:41 am, Jan Groenewald wrote: > Hi Marshall > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:40:43AM -0700, mhampton wrote: > > This doesn't seem to happen on OS X 10.6, but on linux (Ubuntu 9.10, > >

[sage-devel] Re: libpari segfault related to sage-4.5.3?

2010-10-14 Thread mhampton
I should have also mentioned that this was on sage-4.6.alpha3, so the problem is still there. On Oct 14, 6:40 am, mhampton wrote: > This doesn't seem to happen on OS X 10.6, but on linux (Ubuntu 9.10, > on an intel i7 860) I get: > > sudo dmesg |grep pari > [1137442.

[sage-devel] Re: libpari segfault related to sage-4.5.3?

2010-10-14 Thread mhampton
This doesn't seem to happen on OS X 10.6, but on linux (Ubuntu 9.10, on an intel i7 860) I get: sudo dmesg |grep pari [1137442.823450] python[25794]: segfault at 429 ip 7fba72ee2de1 sp 7fffa33e3530 error 4 in libpari-gmp.so.2[7fba72cee000+2c6000] [1352579.933964] python[17881] general prot

[sage-devel] Re: Complex numerical integration

2010-10-14 Thread mhampton
Here's one way to do it using mpmath; there might be better ways: sage: from mpmath import * sage: mp.dps = 15; mp.pretty = True sage: f = lambda x: sqrt(sec(x)-1) sage: quad(f, [pi/2, pi]) (1.43051518370573e-8 + 3.14159264808335j) To get back to a sage type you could do: sage: ans=quad(f, [pi/2

[sage-devel] Re: sage crashes on calculating roots of a polynom

2010-10-07 Thread mhampton
Those commands work for me on linux (ubuntu 9.10, intel i7 860) and OS X 10.6. Maybe you could run all the standard tests for sage (sage -t $SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage), that might help narrow the problem down. -M. Hampton > On 7 Okt., 17:31, Johannes wrote: > > > Hi list, > > i got my sage cras

[sage-devel] moin moin wiki problem

2010-10-06 Thread mhampton
I am having trouble getting a wiki working with sage-4.6.alpha2. I have a feeling that not many people use the wiki command, so maybe it is not tested well. Can someone else check if it still works? I am wondering if it is specific to my setup or just broken in general. -Marshall Hampton -- T

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread mhampton
Sorry, somehow I missed Volker's post and your response to it. Its confusing to have things discussed on sage-release and sage-devel simultaneously (one reason I'm opposed to so many sage-* discussion groups...). If there is already an upstream patch than we should keep supporting linux ppc. I w

[sage-devel] Re: Sage: Very suitable for rapid prototyping

2010-09-28 Thread mhampton
Well done sir! Congratulations. On Sep 28, 5:42 pm, Carl Witty wrote: > I am proud to report that Sage has been "officially" recognized as > "very suitable for rapid prototyping".  Also, Sage is "a fine tool for > many applications". > > This recognition is because I won the lightning round (for

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion to provide external links in documentation.

2010-09-21 Thread mhampton
I think the greatest value of this would be that new users who are used to other systems could find equivalent commands by searching for what they already know. For example, a Mathematica user might search for NDSolve and be led to ode_solver. Perhaps we need a new official docstring title for th

[sage-devel] Re: 3 easy to review documentation tickets

2010-09-21 Thread mhampton
I'll review #8825. -Marshall On Sep 21, 1:42 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > We have three documentation tickets that should be easy to review: > > * #9850http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9850, make style of > documentation consistent with sagemath.org > > * #9936http://trac.sage

[sage-devel] Re: python upgrades in roadmap?

2010-09-20 Thread mhampton
OK, this is now: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9958 Might be a fairly big project but it should help in transitioning to python-3 someday. -Marshall On Sep 16, 11:07 am, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:47 AM, mhampton wrote: > > Has anyone thou

[sage-devel] Re: Python's self-tests

2010-09-20 Thread mhampton
ried very hard to fix this, and I probably won't anytime soon.  I'm > sure other people could track down the problems more easily than I > could.  Anyway, it's there for now if anyone else wants to play with > it. > >   John > > On Sep 20, 9:09 am, mhampton wrote: &g

[sage-devel] Re: Python's self-tests

2010-09-20 Thread mhampton
I am interested in using python 2.7 in Sage, so I was planning on working on it. But I must admit that many things take precedence over that for me, so no one else should wait for me to do anything. I am happy to be cc'ed on a ticket for that, and I'll help if I can. -Marshall On Sep 20, 11:04 

[sage-devel] python upgrades in roadmap?

2010-09-16 Thread mhampton
Has anyone thought about upgrading the python version in Sage? I am very interested in using some new features in python 2.7. I cannot find any trac tickets for this, and the roadmap does not mention python upgrades currently. Most python-based projects seem to have little trouble with 2.7, but

[sage-devel] Re: non-stable .spkgs (alpha, beta, svn/cvs snapshots etc)

2010-09-15 Thread mhampton
+1 to Rob Beezer's comments. I don't have anything to add to them, other than my agreement - very well said. -Marshall Hampton On Sep 15, 8:50 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > We are all adults here.  Well mostly, excluding some child-prodigy- > developers we have. > > Policy is for people who have no j

[sage-devel] Re: Cliquer - upstream modifications and dubious code

2010-09-14 Thread mhampton
I strongly agree with Karl. One reason I became interested in contributing to Sage in the first place was the very positive, helpful atmosphere. Its very, very important to maintain that. Both on these newsgroups and on Trac I hope we can be respectful and polite. Its all too easy for people t

[sage-devel] Re: ICMS 2010 video; Sage demo

2010-09-13 Thread mhampton
Very nice demo! I like how you highlighted the component packages. -Marshall On Sep 13, 8:20 am, Carl Witty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Nathann Cohen > wrote: > >> I've posted the .sws tohttp://wiki.sagemath.org/Talks.  You can see > >> video of my demo, and (eventually) of all

[sage-devel] Re: new style for Sage standard documentation

2010-09-12 Thread mhampton
If I understand it correctly, the main changes are to colors and the logo. I definitely like both of those changes. Nice work. -Marshall On Sep 12, 10:12 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > Ticket #9850 [1] contains some major changes to the HTML style of the > Sage standard documentation.

[sage-devel] Re: New PARI needs testing

2010-09-08 Thread mhampton
Yes, I would guess this is related to http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9533 Looks like that spkg was really well tested in general, but not on a OS X 10.4 machine. Unfortunately I don't have one available. -Marshall On Sep 8, 12:45 pm, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2010-09-08 14:50, kcri

[sage-devel] Re: New PARI needs testing

2010-09-08 Thread mhampton
Following your instructions, all tests passed on two 64-bit linux machines (they have quite different processors, one is an 8-core intel i7 860, the other a dual core intel e8400). -Marshall Hampton On Sep 7, 5:09 am, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > Hello sage-devel, > > As far as we know, there are no

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

2010-08-27 Thread mhampton
For the record, I tried the above calculation at least 250,000 times on two macs (running OSX 10.5 and 10.6) and on Ubuntu 9.10 with a i7 860 processor, had no errors. This was on Sage-4.5.2. I guess I'll try again with 4.5.3, maybe its related to the Pari upgrade. Otherwise +1 to Alex's comment

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

2010-08-16 Thread mhampton
Get it right, man: the correct past tense verb form is malamanteaued. On Aug 16, 5:15 pm, Tom Boothby wrote: > Excellent!  Ever since Bush Jr.'s regime started, I've been a huge fan > of inventoring words.  I do it quite intentionally.  I was going to > return square footage.  But I was working i

[sage-devel] Re: license question

2010-08-14 Thread mhampton
That makes sense; I just tried your spkg and ran into some problems which I put on the ticket. I'd like to make it easy to use alternative convex hull programs for polyhedrons (qhull and lrs being the first examples). On Aug 14, 10:06 am, Volker Braun wrote: > I have nothing to say about the lic

[sage-devel] license question

2010-08-14 Thread mhampton
I'm thinking of making an optional package for the program Qhull, which computes convex hulls and Delaunay triangulations numerically in any dimension. I am more motivated to work on it if it could someday become a standard package, so my question is whether its license is compatible with Sage. A

[sage-devel] Re: proposals for find_fit

2010-07-19 Thread mhampton
Perhaps you could make a new function called something like "find_fit_function" that returned an expression or function. This could have optional arguments to force polynomial or trigonometric or exponential fits. Overall I agree that getting fits to data should be easier. cheers, Marshall Hampt

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage Nagbot

2010-07-11 Thread mhampton
The nagbot has already been helpful to me. I can't stand getting emails about everything on trac, but such targeted reminders are useful. -Marshall -- 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...@goo

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

2010-06-23 Thread mhampton
I would vote for more descriptive names in general, while making some effort to control their length. -Marshall -- 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 options, visit

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for including GLPK standard in Sage

2010-06-21 Thread mhampton
> > This is an official call for a vote: > > [ X]  yes, include glpk I have not had any problems installing glpk, which I have done quite a bit in testing the sandpiles package. I believe it builds on solaris (definitely used to), and I know it does on a range of linux and mac machines I have us

[sage-devel] Re: ECL/ maxima. We are in a bit of a mess.

2010-06-19 Thread mhampton
Yeah, that could be useful for IRC too :) -Marshall On Jun 18, 12:19 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Friday, June 18, 2010, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I need to do something else now (my wife will kill me if I stay on this > > computer much longer!) But I've left a few notes on the ticket. > >

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