Re: [sage-devel] Randomised testing against Mathematica

2010-03-03 Thread Tim Daly
There are two test suites with validated results at http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/CATS/ The CATS (Computer Algebra Test Suite) effort targets the development of known-good answers that get run against several systems. These "end result" suites test large portions of the system. As they

Re: [sage-devel] Randomised testing against Mathematica

2010-03-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Joshua Herman wrote: Is there a mathematica test suite we could adapt or a standardized set of tests we could use? Maybe we could take the 100 most often used functions and make a test suite? I'm not aware of one. A Google found very little of any real use. I'm sure Wolfram Research have such

Re: [sage-devel] Randomised testing against Mathematica

2010-03-02 Thread Joshua Herman
Is there a mathematica test suite we could adapt or a standardized set of tests we could use? Maybe we could take the 100 most often used functions and make a test suite? LOOK ITS A SIGNATURE CLICK IF YOU DARE--- http://www.google.com/profiles/zitterbewegung On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:04

Re: [sage-devel] Randomised testing against Mathematica

2010-03-02 Thread Nick Alexander
On 2-Mar-10, at 10:04 PM, David Kirkby wrote: Has anyone ever considered randomised testing of Sage against Mathematica? Randomised? No. But I have tested my code for computing theta functions against all of Mathematica, Maple, and Magma -- curiously, the three rarely agreed. Nick -

[sage-devel] Randomised testing against Mathematica

2010-03-02 Thread David Kirkby
Has anyone ever considered randomised testing of Sage against Mathematica? As long as the result is either a) True or False b) An integer then comparison should be very easy. As a dead simple example, 1) Generate a large random number n. 2) Use is_prime(n) in Sage to determine if n is prime or