[sage-devel] Re: elliptic_e(0.5, 0.1) differs from Mathematica 7 by about 0.04%.

2009-08-11 Thread nrbruin
On Aug 11, 2:50 pm, William Stein wrote: [snip] >    1. A major government agency -- we can't use Sage unless you > provide a version that contains no binary components and that builds > from source using the latest released version of GCC. [snip] It puzzled me a bit how SBCL could be ported an

[sage-devel] Re: Secure Notebook server for several users

2009-07-22 Thread nrbruin
I have wondered about Peter's problem as well. Particularly in larger classes, one wouldn't necessarily trust all students to behave nicely. In those cases, it would be nice to have a sage notebook that runs a little more locked down. As a point of feedback that some of the sage advocates might c

[sage-devel] Re: "How to get into developing Sage" slides

2009-06-22 Thread nrbruin
On Jun 22, 11:46 am, Rob Beezer wrote: > 2.  I very often use   search_src('def foo(')  to discover where, and > how, the function  foo  is implemented.  Might not be obvious to those > who are new to Python, yet still want to explore the code. [...] > 4.  It took me a while to discover that  d