On 02/27/2017 09:25 PM, Nils Bruin wrote:
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> But only after you've declared f to be a function. If you want to do it in
> one line, you'd have to spell out:
>
> f(x) = function('f')(x)
>
> ...
>
> f=function('f')(x).function(x)
Well that's no fun.
> which would probably not fill you with j
On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 5:56:44 PM UTC-8, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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> But it fills my heart with
> joy that I can fix things by doing
>
> sage: f(x) = f(x)
> sage: f
> x |--> f(x)
>
> But only after you've declared f to be a function. If you want to do it in
one line, you'd ha
On 02/27/2017 06:18 PM, Nils Bruin wrote:
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> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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>> I tried the thing that makes more semantic sense,
>>
>> sage: f = function('f',x)
>>
>> ...
>
> Ah, OK. And this made more semantic sense to you because you wanted f to be
> a function called 'f' in the variable x? O
(split from original thread because this is a separate topic)
On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 5:38:17 AM UTC-8, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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> I tried the thing that makes more semantic sense,
>
> sage: f = function('f',x)
>
> and it told me to
>
> DeprecationWarning... Use function('f')(x) in
On 02/26/2017 04:59 PM, Nils Bruin wrote:
> On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 8:17:05 AM UTC-8, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>
>>
>> sage: f = function('f')(x)
>
>
> Please consider to stop using such assignments. It propagates a confusion
> between the *function* f and the *expression* f(x). The di
On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 8:17:05 AM UTC-8, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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>
> sage: f = function('f')(x)
Please consider to stop using such assignments. It propagates a confusion
between the *function* f and the *expression* f(x). The distinction is
significant in sage and generally brushed
On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 5:17:05 PM UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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> It might not be easy to tell whether or not you got a real result back
> from e.g. Maxima. The following "works",
>
> sage: f = function('f')(x)
> sage: integrate(f,x)
> integrate(f(x), x)
It's easy to recogn
On 02/26/2017 01:52 AM, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> Users of integrate() usually don't care which "algorithm" is used,
> just that the thing is solved. At the moment the default behaviour
> is calling Maxima only, and you have to know/read that you can
> try other algorithms too. Many beginners don't kno
Users of integrate() usually don't care which "algorithm" is used,
just that the thing is solved. At the moment the default behaviour
is calling Maxima only, and you have to know/read that you can
try other algorithms too. Many beginners don't know about this.
I propose to make the default "try al
