Re: [sage-devel] Re: Useful link - internal algorithms used by Mathematica

2010-11-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 11/ 8/10 06:16 AM, Tom Boothby wrote: Ah hah, I see the problem. I was recalling this page: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/WhyYouDoNotUsuallyNeedToKnowAboutInternals.html which is what I thought the link originating this tread had replaced. Thanks for being civil about p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Useful link - internal algorithms used by Mathematica

2010-11-07 Thread Tom Boothby
Ah hah, I see the problem. I was recalling this page: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/WhyYouDoNotUsuallyNeedToKnowAboutInternals.html which is what I thought the link originating this tread had replaced. Thanks for being civil about pointing out my error, Mark. On Sun, Nov 7,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Useful link - internal algorithms used by Mathematica

2010-11-07 Thread Tom Boothby
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:27 PM, mark mcclure wrote: > On Nov 7, 7:22 pm, Tom Boothby wrote: >> Hey, that's pretty neat!  I wonder if this is a direct response to our >> public criticism of their (extreme lack of) openness? >> ... >> > Mark Sofroniou (one of the numerical algorithm developers at W

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Useful link - internal algorithms used by Mathematica

2010-11-07 Thread Tom Boothby
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:44 PM, rjf wrote: > On Nov 7, 4:22 pm, Tom Boothby wrote: >> Hey, that's pretty neat!  I wonder if this is a direct response to our >> public criticism of their (extreme lack of) openness? >> > > What are you smoking? Nothing, and I'm completely serious. At the 2008 Joi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Useful link - internal algorithms used by Mathematica

2010-11-07 Thread David Kirkby
On 6 November 2010 20:39, rjf wrote: > on that page has a link from the command documentation to that page. > A regular user of Mathematica with some curiosity about algorithms > will > have been referred to that page many times by following links from > help. > > The documentation on that page g