Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cellular Automata Tools

2010-11-02 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Hypercube wrote: > Some examples of CA usage: > > -cryptography, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=338094 > -pseudo-random number generators, > http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=31545 > -modelling of certain chemical reac

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cellular Automata Tools

2010-11-02 Thread David Kirkby
On 2 November 2010 12:49, Jason Grout wrote: > On 11/2/10 6:07 AM, David Kirkby wrote: >> >> If Sage is ever to become a viable alternative to Mathematica, then it >> really needs the features of that program. > > > I think early on, there was a distinction made between focusing on having > parity

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cellular Automata Tools

2010-11-02 Thread David Kirkby
On 2 November 2010 02:17, rjf wrote: > Cellular automata of the sort that Wolfram talks about can be > implemented > in languages other than Mathematica much more efficiently.  Maybe > 10,000 > times faster when I wrote some stuff in lisp.  Not for doing anything > useful, > just a speed competiti

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cellular Automata Tools

2010-11-01 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:55 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > On 1 November 2010 22:21, Hypercube wrote: > >> Cellular automata have proved to be a useful tool for modelling >> discrete systems in various applications, so I think it could be >> useful to a wide scope of researchers. At least "A New Kind

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cellular Automata Tools

2010-11-01 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 November 2010 22:21, Hypercube wrote: > Cellular automata have proved to be a useful tool for modelling > discrete systems in various applications, so I think it could be > useful to a wide scope of researchers. At least "A New Kind of > Science" seems to have brought it out of its niche, pa

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Cellular Automata Tools

2010-11-01 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 November 2010 21:53, Hypercube wrote: > Thank you. I will definitely try to build upon that source. However, > it seems to be outdated; it gives tracebacks when run. > > What I meant was, what is necessary for it to be implemented into the > main Sage distribution, once it is written? Or is i