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

2009-08-12 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:33 PM, rjf wrote: > So it seems that people are being encouraged (coerced?) into > delivering and debugging and using a (probably inferior) Maxima by the > requirements of he-who-must-not-be-named. Please post future messages flaming me to sage-flame where they belong:

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

2009-08-12 Thread rjf
Regarding shipping 2 lisps: I thought Sage already knew how to ship a kit for CLISP, because that is what Sage was using for Maxima a year ago. So the Sage project is already building the second lisp from scratch now, voluntarily. ECL. But you don't really have to generally ship 2 lisps, it see

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

2009-08-12 Thread David Kirkby
On 11 Aug, 22:50, William Stein wrote: > > It's actually interesting to summarize, the specific constraints I am aware > of: > >    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

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

2009-08-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Aug-11 12:42:41 -0700, Harald Schilly wrote: >My personal guess is that they want to be able to audit the software >by looking at the source code. That's not possible if one of the >components is or depends on binary code, where something could be >hidden. This is probably an opportune ti

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

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Aug 11, 2009, at 4:08 PM, nrbruin wrote: > > 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.

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

2009-08-11 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, nrbruin wrote: > > 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 GC

[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: elliptic_e(0.5, 0.1) differs from Mathematica 7 by about 0.04%.

2009-08-11 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:19 AM, rjf wrote > Continuing off topic, at least given the subject line... > Since so many pieces of code are currently part of Sage,  it seems > prudent to  tell those developers what the constraints are, or else > they may suddenly find themselves excluded from Sage. >

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

2009-08-11 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 11, 6:19 pm, rjf wrote: > Or worse, they may be included in Sage and jeopardize uh, the security > of the USA. I'm sure the security of USA does not depend on Sage -- but if it does, it would be the #1 selling argument I would put on the homepage :) My personal guess is that they want to

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

2009-08-11 Thread rjf
On Aug 10, 10:21 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:09 PM, rjf wrote: > > > On Aug 10, 2:00 pm, William Stein wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, rjf wrote: > > > > > (RJF)  Could you perhaps quote for us the DoD requirements?  (and who > > in DoD > > > > requir

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

2009-08-10 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:09 PM, rjf wrote: > > > > On Aug 10, 2:00 pm, William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, rjf wrote: > > > > > > > > > (RJF) Could you perhaps quote for us the DoD requirements? (and who > in DoD > > > requires them). > > > >(William) No, I definitel

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

2009-08-10 Thread rjf
On Aug 10, 2:00 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, rjf wrote: > > > > > (RJF) Could you perhaps quote for us the DoD requirements?  (and who in DoD > > requires them). > >(William) No, I definitely can't.   Sorry I can't go into any further details. > > Fascinating

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

2009-08-10 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, rjf wrote: > > > > On Aug 9, 11:15 pm, William Stein wrote: > . > > > > ECL is massively better than CLISP, and is also the *only* other lisp > that > > is currently supported and builds 100% from source code. Both CMUCL and > > SBCL are immediately ruled

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

2009-08-10 Thread rjf
On Aug 9, 11:15 pm, William Stein wrote: . > > ECL is massively better than CLISP, and is also the *only* other lisp that > is currently supported and builds 100% from source code.   Both CMUCL and > SBCL are immediately ruled out just because of that reason.  This is one of > the DoD requi

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

2009-08-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I've built Sage on a sun4u SPARC machine, using Maxima 5.19.0 and ECL 9.8.1 > > Sage fails about 15 tests, one of which is below. I computed the result > in Mathematica too, and find the result on the SPARC does differ from > what Sage expects, and the result Sage expe