[sage-devel] Re: Random elements

2007-03-03 Thread William Stein
I want to add that however random's are changed, e.g., for the integers, the current behavior MUST still be available. The reason is because most benchmarks I know about for other systems use uniformly chosen random numbers in an interval. Loosing this behavior would make it much much more painf

[sage-devel] Re: Random elements

2007-03-03 Thread Robert Bradshaw
Of course. I agree that there should be an algorithm parameter, but I bet most people/functions will end up using the default which should be something reasonable. On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:25 AM, William Stein wrote: > I want to add that however random's are changed, e.g., for the > integers,

[sage-devel] google summer of code

2007-03-03 Thread William Stein
Hi, According to http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727 mentoring organizations can apply to mentor Google Summer of Code projects between March 5 and March 12. I think the chances Google will declare SAGE / Univ of Washington as a mentoring organization are s

[sage-devel] problems in the interface with gp

2007-03-03 Thread pdenapo
Hi, I was playing a little with sage, and I've found that there are some problems with the interface with gp when dealing with big numbers, due to the the fact that sage doesn not understand the gp exponential notation. One first example, is the following: a= factorial(100,'pari'); a works as

[sage-devel] Re: problems in the interface with gp

2007-03-03 Thread William Stein
On Saturday 03 March 2007 9:40 pm, pdenapo wrote: > Hi, > > I was playing a little with sage, and I've found that there are some > problems with the interface with gp when dealing with big numbers, due > to > the the fact that sage doesn not understand the gp exponential > notation. > > One first