[sage-devel] Re: Demo of 3D applets working in the notebook

2007-12-12 Thread Jaap Spies
Ted Kosan wrote: > > You didn't come across that way :-) Per your suggestion, I looked at > Enthought and it is very compelling. I did not know it existed before > you mentioned it and I look forward to experimenting with it. > [...] > > What kind of communications protocol do you see being

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
Steve (cc: sage-devel), Any chance you would have any time to port GAP to Itanium, as described in your email below? So far, I failed to find anybody to do this so far (is there anybody out there on sage-devel who "is C programmer who can manage a few lines of in-line assembler with GCC, an Itan

[sage-devel] doctesting -- importing current file automatically

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
Hi, I noticed your doctesting question about importing the current file or function in #sage-devel: 03:31 < burcin> hey, I need an opinion on something if anybody has time 03:31 < craigcitro> on what? 03:32 < burcin> for the doctests... I was thinking it would be good to import things from the c

[sage-devel] Re: latest R spkg

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 10, 2007 4:04 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The package installed fine on my intel OS X (10.4) machine, but I > haven't gotten the graphics to work on either of my platforms. When > you say, > > (2) If you X devel headers installed, it *will* build graphics > support in. >

[sage-devel] Re: mpolynomial factorization

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
The Macaulay2 code for factorization just calls the Singular-Factory library that we link against. So I don't know why it should be faster than Singular! > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:47:14 -0800 > From: "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: sage-devel@googlegroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], >

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] non-english characters in Notebook

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 7:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I need to use non-english characters (in comments) in Notebook > worksheet. > While working, they're shown w/o problem, but if I save ("download to > file") worksheet, then close > SAGE, then open again and load

[sage-devel] Re: mpolynomial factorization

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 8:47 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:12:07AM -0600, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: > > The Macaulay2 code for factorization just calls the Singular-Factory library > > that we link against. So I don't know why it should be faster than > > Si

[sage-devel] Re: mpolynomial factorization

2007-12-12 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 12 December 2007, William Stein wrote: > On Dec 12, 2007 8:47 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:12:07AM -0600, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: > > > The Macaulay2 code for factorization just calls the Singular-Factory > > > library that we link agai

[sage-devel] Re: mpolynomial factorization

2007-12-12 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:12:07AM -0600, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: > The Macaulay2 code for factorization just calls the Singular-Factory library > that we link against. So I don't know why it should be faster than Singular! I did wonder about that. However, my testing indicates that M2 consist

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE

2007-12-12 Thread Michael Abshoff
William Stein wrote: > > Steve (cc: sage-devel), > > Any chance you would have any time to port GAP to Itanium, as described > in your email below? So far, I failed to find anybody to do this so > far (is there > anybody out there on sage-devel who "is C programmer who can manage > a few lines of

[sage-devel] Re: Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-12 Thread John Voight
Thanks Yi and Nils, Yi: I wasn't sure this really applied, as Ubuntu seems to lack an /etc/ inittab file. But anyway I downloaded and installed mingetty, created such a file according to the website, and there is still no automatic login. Nils: I also created a /etc/init.d/sage file like yours,

[sage-devel] Re: Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-12 Thread Jason Grout
John Voight wrote: > Thanks Yi and Nils, > > Yi: I wasn't sure this really applied, as Ubuntu seems to lack an /etc/ > inittab file. But anyway I downloaded and installed mingetty, created > such a file according to the website, and there is still no automatic > login. If it's ubuntu, does the

[sage-devel] Re: Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-12 Thread John Voight
Jason: The VMware appliance is only terminal-based. But I found what I needed. An appropriate modification of: http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=303319 works just fine. Thanks all, JV --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 10:27 AM, John Voight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason: The VMware appliance is only terminal-based. > > But I found what I needed. An appropriate modification of: > http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=303319 > works just fine. > > Thanks all, JV could you

[sage-devel] Re: Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-12 Thread Nils Bruin
You would have to run "chkconfig" to make sure that the service actually gets added to the /etc/rc.[0.6] directories, which control which services get started at what run level. You'd also have to make sure that the service is configured to run at the appropriate runlevel (in the script above it's

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 8:55 AM, Michael Abshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > > > > Steve (cc: sage-devel), > > > > Any chance you would have any time to port GAP to Itanium, as described > > in your email below? So far, I failed to find anybody to do this so > > far (is there >

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-12 Thread Ondrej Certik
Posting another reply of Alex, the author of pyglet: On Dec 12, 2007 10:20 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. So pygame+pyopengl is more or less equivalent > to pyglet? I.e. it runs on win, linux, mac and it allows you to do > basically the same things? Well,

[sage-devel] Fwd: banner

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
Hi, We are going to make a 5' wide by 8' wide tall banner to hang on our booth at the AMS meeting. Does anybody have any ideas for artwork. Obviously the 5-cube has to go somewhere on the banner along with Alex Clemesha's official Sage logo. The blurb from the frontpage of sagemath.org. Any

[sage-devel] Re: Free software brings affordability, transparency to mathematics

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 11:29 AM, dmp <> wrote: > *** > Its nice to hear that someone has finally pointed out and succeeded > in pointing out the failing of proprietor software in the area of > mathematics and education. In 1999 while taking numerical analysis > I was unable to get some of the private sof

[sage-devel] xgcd problem

2007-12-12 Thread Nils Bruin
At present xgcd(12,2) == (2,1,-5), whereas most people would expect the answer (2,0,1) [being the smallest linear combination]. Ticket: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1482 Since xgcd is central to so many algorithms and is very speed- sensitive, I hesitate to put in a simple-minded fix. Ho

[sage-devel] Re: xgcd problem

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 12:46 PM, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At present xgcd(12,2) == (2,1,-5), whereas most people would expect > the answer (2,0,1) [being the smallest linear combination]. Ticket: > > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1482 > > Since xgcd is central to so many algorithm

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-12 Thread mhampton
I might be able to help, at least after I get the last few days of class out of the way. I made a design for a mug (I'm going to order through Snapfish, although if we wanted more merchandise something like cafepress would be better), which is mostly made of graphics of interest to me: http://ww

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 2:22 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I might be able to help, at least after I get the last few days of > class out of the way. > > I made a design for a mug (I'm going to order through Snapfish, > although if we wanted more merchandise something like cafepress would

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-12 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 12 December 2007, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > We are going to make a 5' wide by 8' wide tall banner to hang on our booth > at the AMS meeting. Does anybody have any ideas for artwork. Obviously > the 5-cube has to go somewhere on the banner along with Alex Clemesha's > official

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-12 Thread mhampton
The images were made in sage, apart from the logo and the "open source mathematical software" - the latter was done with the Gimp. Assembling the images was done with the Gimp, so no commerical software was used. Oh, I inverted some colors in gimp as well. -mh On Dec 12, 4:36 pm, "William Stein

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Miller
> Obviously > the 5-cube has to go somewhere ... Just some input on the 5-cube. The one line that everyone is using to make the 5-cube could be a little nicer: sage: graphs.CubeGraph(5).show3d() http://www.rlmiller.org/ok.png versus sage: graphs.CubeGraph(5).show3d(iterations=300) http://www.rlm

[sage-devel] Re: mpolynomial factorization

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 9:00 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 December 2007, William Stein wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2007 8:47 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:12:07AM -0600, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: > > > > The Macaulay2 code for

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 3:22 PM, Thomas Keller <> wrote: > Hi, > I just saw the Dr. Dobb's article on SAGE. I will check it out, but I was > wondering if you've looked at Octave? > Why not join up with that team? Here's a list of reasons that Sage and Octave are and will remain to very different project

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 4:27 PM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, > > I like this. It could be a good start for a blog! OK, hint taken! I've made this blog for Sage-related stuff, and made my first post based on that email: http://sagemath.blogspot.com/ > > Jaap > > > > > William S

[sage-devel] Re: xgcd problem

2007-12-12 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 12, 9:50 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 12, 2007 12:46 PM, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > At present xgcd(12,2) == (2,1,-5), whereas most people would expect > > the answer (2,0,1) [being the smallest linear combination]. Ticket: > > >http://saget

[sage-devel] search path for attaching and loading files?

2007-12-12 Thread Dan Drake
Hello, In Mathematica, there's a $Path variable which has a list of directories to search when asked to load a file. Is there a corresponding thing in Sage? I tried adding directories to sys.path, but that didn't help. Is there any way to do this? Also, if there is such a way, is there a way to

[sage-devel] Re: search path for attaching and loading files?

2007-12-12 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 13, 3:42 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Hello Dan, > In Mathematica, there's a $Path variable which has a list of directories > to search when asked to load a file. Is there a corresponding thing in > Sage? Sounds certainly like a good idea. > I tried adding direc

[sage-devel] Announcing planet.sagemath.org!

2007-12-12 Thread Yi Qiang
Since people expressed interest, I set up http://planet.sagemath.org. You can go there now to read some excellent entries from people who've listed themselves at: http://wiki.sagemath.org/planetsage If you'd like me to add your blog, please email me the URL for your blog and I will add a wiki en

[sage-devel] Re: search path for attaching and loading files?

2007-12-12 Thread Dan Drake
On Dec 13, 11:45 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > > In Mathematica, there's a $Path variable which has a list of directories > > to search when asked to load a file. Is there a corresponding thing in > > Sage? > > Sounds certainly like a good idea. Thanks for considering it.

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-12 Thread Fabio Tonti
I really like what Martin Albrecht posted, I think it's very simple and yet representative. Maybe there could be one or two more symbols in the banner, in my opinion the SymPy-snake would fit somewhere or e.g. the SciPy Logo (I know it's optional, but it's there!) Best wishes, Fabio On Dec 13, 20

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 11:05 PM, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (4) At some point though, I had to chose the numerical component for > > sage, since in > > fact my more recent research interests had broadened > > to more numerical things, and those of a lot of new Sage users (the > > numb

[sage-devel] Re: search path for attaching and loading files?

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 11:32 PM, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 13, 11:45 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > dortmund.de> wrote: > > > In Mathematica, there's a $Path variable which has a list of directories > > > to search when asked to load a file. Is there a corresponding thing in > >