[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-13 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 11:50 PM, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 The SymPy snake is reall

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-13 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 13, 2007 12:51 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > So basically, at no point were there any real non-documented bugs > or problems with numpy or scipy that we fixed. It was more that > installing those libraries and all they depend on *from scratch* > in the context of t

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-13 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 13, 9:06 am, "Fernando Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 12:51 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] Hello, > > > So basically, at no point were there any real non-documented bugs > > or problems with numpy or scipy that we fixed. It was more that > >

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

2007-12-13 Thread Pablo De Nápoli
Excelent idea! Pablo El Thursday 13 December 2007 01:47:49 Yi Qiang escribió: > 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 yo

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

2007-12-13 Thread alex clemesha
On Dec 12, 2007 8:36 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 s

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

2007-12-13 Thread Fabio Tonti
Yes, it really looks the way it should, in my opinion. On Dec 13, 2007 11:18 AM, Pablo De Nápoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Excelent idea! > Pablo > > El Thursday 13 December 2007 01:47:49 Yi Qiang escribió: > > Since people expressed interest, I set up http://planet.sagemath.org. > > You c

[sage-devel] Re: mpolynomial factorization

2007-12-13 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:24, William Stein wrote: > Anyway, Yi just made this planet sage blog thing: >     http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/yqiang/psage/output/ > So I looked at it, and saw Martin Albrecht's blog posts, which I > hadn't looked at before.   Those led me to the Giac sit

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-13 Thread mhampton
I like Martin's banner too. One minor change I would suggest: I don't like "web-aware" under the firefox logo - how about something like "networked" instead? Cheers, Marshall On Dec 13, 2:00 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 12, 2007 11:50 PM, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-devel] Re: using Singular's invariant_ring [new patch submitted]

2007-12-13 Thread David Joyner
Thank you! After all this, I have finally submitted a patch which adds this functionality: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1485 I changed the name as you suggested and slightly edited the example in the docstring. The patch now passed sage -t and implements the wrapper we worked on. On Dec

[sage-devel] sage 2.8.15 compilation error with gcc 4.1.2 on Slackware Linux 12.0

2007-12-13 Thread John A. Murdie
Has anyone seen this problem yet? (I'll investigate it myself also.) Slackware Linux 12.0, gcc 4.1.12 - versions of other things and/or other configuration details on request. ... make[4]: Leaving directory `/local/d0p6/john/sage-2.8.15/spkg/build/ singular-3-0-4-1-20071202/src/kernel' make instal

[sage-devel] Re: sage 2.8.15 compilation error with gcc 4.1.2 on Slackware Linux 12.0

2007-12-13 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 13, 6:05 pm, "John A. Murdie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello John, > Has anyone seen this problem yet? (I'll investigate it myself also.) > Slackware Linux 12.0, gcc 4.1.12 - versions of other things and/or > other configuration details on request. Nope, I have never seen that one be

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

2007-12-13 Thread William Stein
Hi, The program mentioned below is a reasonably small GPL'd Java applet that does a bunch of numerical analysis. It might be of interest to somebody on sage-devel. -- Forwarded message -- From: dmp <...> *** Its nice to hear that someone has finally pointed out and succeeded i

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

2007-12-13 Thread Yi Qiang
Just a heads up, for people who are blogging about Sage, please tag your posts with 'sage'. This way we can keep the noise to signal ratio down on planet.sagemath.org. On Dec 12, 2007 8:47 PM, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since people expressed interest, I set up http://planet.sagemath.

[sage-devel] another blogger talking about sage

2007-12-13 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-devel, Here's a nice blog post from a new sage user: http://sidk.info/2007/11/19/online-version-of-matlabmathematicamaple/ -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post

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

2007-12-13 Thread mhampton
Hi, I've added my new blog URL to the wiki: http://neutraldrifts.blogspot.com/ cheers, Marshall Hampton On Dec 13, 12:44 pm, "Yi Qiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a heads up, for people who are blogging about Sage, please tag > your posts with 'sage'. This way we can keep the noise to si

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

2007-12-13 Thread Yi Qiang
Great! You're on planet.sagemath.org as well. On Dec 13, 2007 11:46 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've added my new blog URL to the wiki: http://neutraldrifts.blogspot.com/ > > cheers, > Marshall Hampton > > On Dec 13, 12:44 pm, "Yi Qiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just

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

2007-12-13 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 13, 2007 7:44 PM, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a heads up, for people who are blogging about Sage, please tag > your posts with 'sage'. This way we can keep the noise to signal ratio > down on planet.sagemath.org. Yes, this is imho very important. If there is a need, there

[sage-devel] Call for developers: Looking for FAQ maintainers

2007-12-13 Thread mabshoff
Hello, Sage has an faq at http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq It is a rather young wiki page (first real content 2 weeks ago), but it has been growing rapidly due to the influx of more users because of all the recent publicity. I have been trying to add every interesting question that I see on sage-

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

2007-12-13 Thread mhampton
I am not sure I understand things. I have tried to make a small sage- related post, and labeled it with "sage" on blogspot (http:// neutraldrifts.blogspot.com/). It hasn't shown up yet, but I don't know how long the feed delay is. If it doesn't work, could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[sage-devel] Is -7 a prime number?

2007-12-13 Thread Robert Miller
The algebraic definition is that its only divisors are itself and 1, up to units-- yes. The cultural definition is that it is in {2, 3, ...}-- no. It seems weird to use the cultural definition, since if we pass to another ring that contains ZZ, chances are the definition there will be the cultural

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-newbie] is there any way to copy jsfonts to word ?

2007-12-13 Thread William Stein
On Dec 13, 2007 1:58 PM, carlosap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I have the result from something like > > show( ... ) > > how do I copy, paste to word ? So I dont have to rewrite the function > in that crappy ms ecuation editor? > You might be able to use latex(...) to get the latex form of

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

2007-12-13 Thread Yi Qiang
Hi Marshall, You should be on there now with the very top entry ;) Cheers, Yi http://yiqiang.org On Dec 13, 2007 2:45 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not sure I understand things. I have tried to make a small sage- > related post, and labeled it with "sage" on blogspot (

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-newbie] is there any way to copy jsfonts to word ?

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 1:58 PM, carlosap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I have the result from something like >> >> show( ... ) >> >> how do I copy, paste to word ? So I dont have to rewrite the function >> in that crappy ms ecuation editor? >> > > You might be able to use > >

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-newbie] is there any way to copy jsfonts to word ?

2007-12-13 Thread boothby
A friend of mine works at Microsoft, and is quite proud that any time I send him an email containing latex, he can copy & paste into Word (I think he's using 2007) -- and their new equation editor groks most of latex. On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, William Stein wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2007 1:58 PM, carlo

[sage-devel] Interest in a Poisson series manipulator?

2007-12-13 Thread Francesco Biscani
Hi all, I've been working on an algebraic manipulator dedicated to Celestial Mechanics, and, in particular, Poisson and Fourier series. It is written in C++, and it comes with a set of bindings for Python written using Boost.Python. I was wondering if in the SAGE community there is some intere

[sage-devel] Re: Interest in a Poisson series manipulator?

2007-12-13 Thread mhampton
I am interested - I have done some work in celestial mechanics, although not using poisson and fourier series. Since I don't have a lot of expertise, I'm not sure I can be much help, but I thought I would at least make a gesture of support :) I think it would be nice, on the wiki page, if you sh

[sage-devel] Re: Interest in a Poisson series manipulator?

2007-12-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Francesco Biscani wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been working on an algebraic manipulator dedicated to Celestial > Mechanics, and, in particular, Poisson and Fourier series. It is written in > C++, and it comes with a set of bindings for Python written using > Boost.Python. > > I was wondering if

[sage-devel] Re: Interest in a Poisson series manipulator?

2007-12-13 Thread Francesco Biscani
On Friday 14 December 2007, mhampton wrote: > I am interested - I have done some work in celestial mechanics, > although not using poisson and fourier series. Since I don't have a > lot of expertise, I'm not sure I can be much help, but I thought I > would at least make a gesture of support :) > >

[sage-devel] Bug Day 7: Fri. Dec. 14th. 2007

2007-12-13 Thread mabshoff
Hi, since nobody suggested any better date the next bug day will be held on FRIDAY, December 14, 2007. I am aware that this is only about 12 hours away, but at least William and I will be working on the 2.9 release, which is planned for Saturday. Details as usual at http://wiki.sagemath.org/b

[sage-devel] Re: Is -7 a prime number?

2007-12-13 Thread William Stein
On Dec 13, 2007 3:20 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The algebraic definition is that its only divisors are itself and 1, > up to units-- yes. The cultural definition is that it is in {2, > 3, ...}-- no. It seems weird to use the cultural definition, since if > we pass to another ri