Re: [sage-devel] Maxima slashdotted, Sage in comments

2012-12-16 Thread Volker Braun
The units are just symbolic expressions, and sin is already aware of symbolic expressions. So nothing would change for numeric arguments. Only for symbolic arguments like 45*units.angle.degree we would simplify sin() further. On Sunday, December 16, 2012 5:04:54 PM UTC, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

Re: [sage-devel] Maxima slashdotted, Sage in comments

2012-12-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/15/2012 10:06 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > On 12/15/2012 08:51 PM, kcrisman wrote: >> Just sayin'. >> >> http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12/14/214231/ask-slashdot-replacing-a-ti-84-with-software-on-a-linux-box >> >> and then check the comments. > > The original poster didn't li

Re: [sage-devel] Maxima slashdotted, Sage in comments

2012-12-16 Thread Volker Braun
On Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:06:23 AM UTC, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > How about sage? Does that have a "degrees" button? > There is the units stuff: sage: (400*units.angles.grade).convert(units.angles.degree) 360*degree Though unfortunately the trigonometric functions are not aware o

Re: [sage-devel] Maxima slashdotted, Sage in comments

2012-12-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 12/15/2012 08:51 PM, kcrisman wrote: > Just sayin'. > > http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12/14/214231/ask-slashdot-replacing-a-ti-84-with-software-on-a-linux-box > > and then check the comments. The original poster didn't like maxima, because it doesn't have a "degrees" button where all t

[sage-devel] Maxima slashdotted, Sage in comments

2012-12-15 Thread kcrisman
Just sayin'. http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12/14/214231/ask-slashdot-replacing-a-ti-84-with-software-on-a-linux-box and then check the comments. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-dev