[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic manipulation questions

2007-06-01 Thread Bobby Moretti
On 6/1/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:24, Bobby Moretti wrote: > > This is an example of trying to err on the side of being overly correct > for > > our output. For example, if you input > > > > sage: sqrt(2)*5 > > > > it will get simplified to 5*sqrt

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic manipulation questions

2007-06-01 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:24, Bobby Moretti wrote: > This is an example of trying to err on the side of being overly correct for > our output. For example, if you input > > sage: sqrt(2)*5 > > it will get simplified to 5*sqrt(2). But this relies on the behavior of > maxima's simplification. \sqrt

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic manipulation questions

2007-05-31 Thread Bobby Moretti
This is an example of trying to err on the side of being overly correct for our output. For example, if you input sage: sqrt(2)*5 it will get simplified to 5*sqrt(2). But this relies on the behavior of maxima's simplification. \sqrt{2} \cdot 5 is much better than \sqrt{2}5, which is what could ha

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic manipulation questions

2007-05-31 Thread Michel
Recently I also encountered this "\cdot". I think it does not correspond to usual mathematical typesetting so perhaps it should go. Michel On May 31, 5:23 pm, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2007 11:09, William Stein wrote: > > > The file calculus/calculus.py, wh

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic manipulation questions

2007-05-31 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Thursday 31 May 2007 11:09, William Stein wrote: > The file calculus/calculus.py, which is what should be responsible for all > typesetting of symbolic objects, contains exactly one instance of \\cdot > (around line 2700). Try removing that and letting us know if the behavior > is acceptable t

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic manipulation questions

2007-05-31 Thread William Stein
On 5/31/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm giving the new symbolic stuff a bit of a work-out today. I've come across > two issues. > > 1) I'm outputing my results to a latex file and viewing them that way and > also using the view command. The conversion to latex puts a "\cdot"