[sage-devel] Re: GeoGebra

2008-02-22 Thread Ted Kosan
mabshoff wrote: > > Since Sage takes inspiration from Mathematica in so many other areas, > > my thought is that using mathlink as a starting point for what a Sage > > API should look like would make sense too. > > I think that API is just ludicrously heavy and way to complicated. > Sage dev

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.alpha2 released

2008-02-22 Thread John Cremona
OK -- I found these responses only on Friday morning (GMT) and had not done anything about them anyway. I was going to suggest replacing the code with sage: A, gens = E.abelian_group(); A Multiplicative Abelian Group isomorphic to C5 with a remark in the text that the actual generators sho

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread Craig Citro
> this is 2.10.2.rc0, which hopefully will be identical to 2.10.2 > final. I got four doctest failures on my OSX Intel 10.5 box: sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/calculus/calculus.py sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/rings/number_field/number_field.py sage -t devel/sage-main

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread David Harvey
On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:15 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > Hello folks, > > this is 2.10.2.rc0, which hopefully will be identical to 2.10.2 > final. > Please build and doctest this release and report any issue you > come across. At this point only critical issues will be patched, > i.e. doctest failures o

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread Michael.Abshoff
David Harvey wrote: > On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:15 PM, mabshoff wrote: > >> Hello folks, >> >> this is 2.10.2.rc0, which hopefully will be identical to 2.10.2 >> final. >> Please build and doctest this release and report any issue you >> come across. At this point only critical issues will be patche

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread David Harvey
On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Michael.Abshoff wrote: > Could you please post slightly more of the log? It looks like it > happens > during "make install" which would make it easy to fix. Is it > reproducible? http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/dmharvey/install.log.gz I am going to try buil

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread William Stein
Problems with sage-2.10.2.rc0: 1. One 32-bit REDHAT, 32-bit Debian (minimal), The build completely fails at the "sage -br" part with: ... sage/misc/sage_timeit_class.pyx --> /home/was/build/sage-2.10.2.rc0/local//lib/python/site-packages//sage/misc/sage_timeit_class.pyx running install running bu

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread David Roe
> Here are the pow_computer failures: > sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/rings/padics/pow_computer.pyx > ** > File "pow_computer.pyx", line 160: >sage: PC._pow_mpz_t_tmp_demo(6, 8) > Expected: >244140625 > Got: >1525878906

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nothing extraordinary: built and tested on dual core laptop running Gentoo. Everything is ok except for the two number_field test failures already reported by others. Best, Alex mabshoff wrote: | Hello folks, | | this is 2.10.2.rc0, which hopefull

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread bill purvis
On Friday 22 February 2008, Craig Citro wrote: > > this is 2.10.2.rc0, which hopefully will be identical to 2.10.2 > > final. > > I got four doctest failures on my OSX Intel 10.5 box: > > sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/calculus/calculus.py > sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/rings/num

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 22, 6:37 pm, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 22 February 2008, Craig Citro wrote:> > this is 2.10.2.rc0, which > hopefully will be identical to 2.10.2 > > > final. > > > I got four doctest failures on my OSX Intel 10.5 box: > > > sage -t devel/sage-main/sage

[sage-devel] sage-edu, standard API, etc.

2008-02-22 Thread Jason Grout
Wow, this discussion blew up way to fast for me to keep on top of it and form a coherent opinion. Ted, I'm specifically CCing you; if you don't want to reply (either on or off list), I understand. Personally, I'd like to keep working on some the issues that I find interesting and I think you

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread dmharvey
On Feb 22, 8:29 am, "Michael.Abshoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please post slightly more of the log? It looks like it happens > during "make install" which would make it easy to fix. Is it reproducible? I built again with -j1, now the build was fine. I'm going to run doctests on

[sage-devel] Re: sage-edu, standard API, etc.

2008-02-22 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow, this discussion blew up way to fast for me to keep on top of it and > form a coherent opinion. Ted, I'm specifically CCing you; if you don't > want to reply (either on or off list), I understand. Personally, I'd

[sage-devel] Re: sage-edu, standard API, etc.

2008-02-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
Thanks, Jason, for the lengthy reply. I think it summarizes things nicely. I started a simple API at the AMS meeting in January, and I think the time is ripe to have a discussion about this. I'll start a new thread summarizing my ideas (probably on sage-edu) when I have a bit more time (p

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 22, 10:45 am, "Craig Citro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this is 2.10.2.rc0, which hopefully will be identical to 2.10.2 > > final. > > I got four doctest failures on my OSX Intel 10.5 box: > > sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/calculus/calculus.py > sage -t devel/sage-ma

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 22, 4:21 pm, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Michael.Abshoff wrote: > > > Could you please post slightly more of the log? It looks like it > > happens > > during "make install" which would make it easy to fix. Is it > > reproducible? > > http://sage.

[sage-devel] (fan mail) Fwd: Thank you for SAGE! I love it!

2008-02-22 Thread William Stein
Hello Sage-Devel, Here's some fan mail thanking us for Sage. Keep up the good work! -- Forwarded message -- From: ben taylor <> Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:49 AM Subject: Thank you for SAGE! I love it! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a chemical engineering master's student at the

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 22, 8:52 pm, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:43 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > > Hi David, Hi David, > > I poked around in the install log and the issue is "Resource > > temporarily unavailable", i.e. the dreaded OSX resource limits that > > are too low. A sugge

[sage-devel] Re: exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread Jason Grout
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've found a nice implementation of the DLX algorithm, which "quickly" solves > the NP-Complete exact cover problem. For those who aren't in Seattle and > haven't heard me blathering on and on and on and on about how awesome DLX > is... > > Let M be a binary matrix.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread David Harvey
On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:43 PM, mabshoff wrote: > Hi David, > > I poked around in the install log and the issue is "Resource > temporarily unavailable", i.e. the dreaded OSX resource limits that > are too low. A suggested fix is at > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/Tips Thanks, well spotted! > So: no

[sage-devel] exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread boothby
I've found a nice implementation of the DLX algorithm, which "quickly" solves the NP-Complete exact cover problem. For those who aren't in Seattle and haven't heard me blathering on and on and on and on about how awesome DLX is... Let M be a binary matrix. An exact cover is a subset of the ro

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-edu] Re: [sage-devel] sage-edu, standard API, etc.

2008-02-22 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Jason Grout > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > > Over on sage-edu, we ought to pretty quickly get a focus so that we > > don't become too fragmented to do any good. > >

[sage-devel] Re: exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've found a nice implementation of the DLX algorithm, which "quickly" > solves the NP-Complete exact cover problem. For those who aren't in Seattle > and haven't heard me blathering on a

[sage-devel] Re: exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread David Harvey
On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:49 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Jason Grout > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I've found a nice implementation of the DLX algorithm, which >>> "quickly" solves the NP-Complete exact cover problem. For those

[sage-devel] Re: exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread John Cremona
The original problem said "binary matrix" so surely that means mod 2? And I would expect mod 2 matrices to come up in the graph theory applications. Not that I know about that... John On 22/02/2008, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:50 PM, David Harvey >

[sage-devel] Re: exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread David Roe
In this context I think that binary means all the entries are 1s and zeros. But when you look for a set of rows that add up to [1,1,1,...], you don't consider 1+1=0. This makes sense when you want only one 1 to appear in each column, which is a natural requirement, and makes the problem much harde

[sage-devel] Re: exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:50 PM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:49 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Jason Grout > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I've found a nice implementation

[sage-devel] Re: exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread Robert Miller
Just a technical note: Mod 2 matrices are not the natural way to think about adjacency matrices (I learned this the hard way) - the entry is actually better thought of as the number of paths of length one from one vertex to another. That way taking nth powers of the matrices counts the number of n

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread John Cremona
Built ok (kubuntu 7.70, gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/rings/number_field/number_field.py sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/rings/number_field/number_field_ideal.py Total time for all tests

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 22, 11:20 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Built ok (kubuntu 7.70, gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) > (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) Hi John, > The following tests failed: > > sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/rings/number_field/number_field.py > sage -t de

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.10.2.rc0 release!

2008-02-22 Thread John Cremona
Done. On 22/02/2008, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 22, 11:20 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Built ok (kubuntu 7.70, gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) > > (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) > > > Hi John, > > > > The following tests failed: > > > >

[sage-devel] Mathematica Plot options not in Sage

2008-02-22 Thread Timothy Clemans
The following Mathematica options for the Plot function are unsupported in Sage: AxesLabel, AxesOrigin, AxesStyle, BaselinePosition, ClippingStyle, ColorFunction, ColorFunctionScaling, EvaluationMonitor, Exclusions, ExclusionsStyle, Filling, FillingStyle, MaxRecursion, Mesh, MeshFunctions, MeshSha

[sage-devel] Re: sage-edu, standard API, etc.

2008-02-22 Thread alex clemesha
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Jason Grout > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Wow, this discussion blew up way to fast for me to keep on top of it > and > > form a coherent opinion. Ted, I'm specifically CCing you

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica Plot options not in Sage

2008-02-22 Thread William Stein
Thanks Timothy! I hope that people interested in 2d plotting can maybe think about some of the things Mathematica does that Sage doesn't (listed below), and whether Sage _should_ do them, and if so, what shape they should take in Sage, then respond to this thread. Thanks, -- William On Fri, F

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica Plot options not in Sage

2008-02-22 Thread alex clemesha
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Timothy! > > I hope that people interested in 2d plotting can maybe think about some > of the things Mathematica does that Sage doesn't (listed below), and > whether > Sage _should_ do them, and if so, what shape th

[sage-devel] Re: exact cover problem

2008-02-22 Thread Bill Hart
If it is an NP-complete problem, presumably it asks whether such a set of rows exists, not that you find one. Bill. On 22 Feb, 21:32, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a technical note: Mod 2 matrices are not the natural way to think > about adjacency matrices (I learned this the h

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica Plot options not in Sage

2008-02-22 Thread William Stein
This accidentally went off list. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:42 PM, alex clemesha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:28 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:10 PM, alex clemesha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On

[sage-devel] Sage Developer Coding Week 1

2008-02-22 Thread William Stein
Hi, This is to announce the first "Sage Developer Coding Week 1": http://wiki.sagemath.org/dev1 This will be like a Sage days, but it will be 100% aimed squarely at Sage development and writing code. All talks will be directly related to the coding projects. -- ORGANIZERS: W

[sage-devel] Re: plotting cube root function

2008-02-22 Thread Andy
I jumped over from the sage-support group, where I had posted a question about graphing x^(1/3). Alex Ghitza's response to me made more sense when I read the background discussion here. I am experiencing the same inconsistency revealed in the latter part of this discussion. I am also running Sa

[sage-devel] Re: sage-edu, standard API, etc.

2008-02-22 Thread kcrisman
Great thanks are due to Jason G. for starting to distill some of the issues involved in the developments leading to sage-edu in a very gracious manner. I hope to add, in a similar vein (nothing about APIs, sorry!), more commentary on some more of the underlying issues, and a request to the "main d

[sage-devel] sage-2.10.2

2008-02-22 Thread William Stein
Hello folks, Sage 2.10.2 has been released on February 23nd, 2008. It is available at http://sagemath.org/download.html * About Sage (http://www.sagemath.org) Sage is developed by volunteers and combines 71 open source packages. It is available for download from sagemath.org and its

[sage-devel] Re: sage-edu, standard API, etc.

2008-02-22 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 23, 3:38 am, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Du to lack of time and need for sleep I will only touch a couple issue. > Great thanks are due to Jason G. for starting to distill some of the > issues involved in the developments leading to sage-edu in a very > gracious manner. I h

[sage-devel] broken link on http://sagemath.org/pub.html

2008-02-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The link for Mazur's paper "Finding meaning in error terms" is currently http://www.ams.org/bull/-000-00/S0273-0979-08-01207-X/home.html but it should be http://www.ams.org/bull/2008-45-02/S0273-0979-08-01207-X/home.html Best, Alex - --