[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread John Cremona
I also find Robert D's take on this bizarre, but it just shows (again) how different people have different instincts. For me, f = x^3 + x + 1 defines a polynomial, and polynomials define functions in an unambiguous way, and that is it. But if you think of f as a symbolic expression (as a traditi

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation Quality Initiative

2008-11-06 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:42:02PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > I skimmed the crypto tutorial and liked it. I really wish we > had a bunch of domain-specific tutorials gathered together > and included in a single book or directory with Sage, > and on the website. I wrote one recently for al

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Simon King
Hi! On Nov 6, 6:10 am, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Would you consider this weird if you read it in a paper, or > >> would you know how to interpret it? > > >> "Let $f = x^3 + x + 1$ and consider $f(10)$." > > > I'm not so sure I know what to do with that. Neither am I. If I

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread David Joyner
With amd64 intrepid ibex, it builds fine but sage -testall seems to have the same locking-up issues as with the alpha2 version. I can ctrl c to get out of the doc files, and it will pass on to testing the next one, but when I ctrl-c at sage -t devel/sage/sage/libs/fplll/fplll.pyx it kicks me out

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Franco Saliola
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5-Nov-08, at 8:55 PM, Robert Dodier wrote: > >> >> William Stein wrote: >> >>> Would you consider this weird if you read it in a paper, or >>> would you know how to interpret it? >>> >>> "Let $f = x^3 + x + 1$ and

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread John Cremona
On my laptop which normally builds Sage fine I get this (at the end of install.log): sage-3.2.alpha3/.hg/store/data/sagebuild.py.i sage-3.2.alpha3/.hg/store/data/setup.py.d sage-3.2.alpha3/.hg/store/data/setup.py.i sage-3.2.alpha3/.hg/store/data/setupnb.py.i sage-3.2.alpha3/.hg/store/data/spkg-de

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:51 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With amd64 intrepid ibex, it builds fine but sage -testall > seems to have the same locking-up issues as with the alpha2 version. > I can ctrl c to get out of the doc files, and it will pass on to testing > the next one, but

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:44 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello folks, > > here goes 3.2.alpha3 - somewhat later than planned. Hopefully we > fixed all numerical doctest noise from #788 (I even reverted a small > number of changes) and otherwise merged a couple other nice patches.

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation Quality Initiative

2008-11-06 Thread Jason Merrill
On Nov 6, 4:11 am, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about being able to click on "tutorial" somewhere near "new worksheet" > in the sage notebook? Which could present you cell by cell with explanatory > text, and then you execute the command to continue, and get a chance to try >

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation Quality Initiative

2008-11-06 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Rob Beezer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the spirit of "release early" I've added my (incomplete) notes on > graph theory commands to the Documentation Project wiki. These are You meant "group theory" not "graph theory". I looked at it briefly. On page 3, th

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi, on Core2 Duo Intel OS X 10.4.11 (Xcdoe 2.5) Sage.3.2.alpha3 builds fine. I immediately ran "MAKE testlong", and it only gives the two long known failures (trac tickets in the 3xxx range): -- The following tests failed:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread Wilfried_Huss
On Debian stable 32-bit one test fails: sage -t devel/sage/sage/interfaces/r.py ** File "/local/data/huss/software/sage-3.2.alpha3/tmp/r.py", line 549: sage: r.library('foobar') Expected: Traceback (most recent call last

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread John Cremona
Build ok and all tests pass on here (32-bit linux): Linux version 2.6.16.60-0.31-smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070115 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Tue Oct 7 16:16:29 UTC 2008 and here (64-bit linux): Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ub

[sage-devel] Re: yet another talk on Sage

2008-11-06 Thread Martin Albrecht
> > It would likely be better to start a page on wiki.sagemath.org. > > Could you do so?Then Harald Schilly (sagemath.org webmaster) > > could add a prominent link to that page. > > You mean on how to get files there or a page to aggregate the talks? > Because I, as a newbie to sage, don't kno

[sage-devel] coxeter matrix bug?

2008-11-06 Thread Daniel Allcock
Hi all, Asking sage for the coxeter matrix of G2 returns [ 1 7 ] [ 7 1 ] and I think the 7's should be 6's. I looked through bug reports but didn't find anything on this, so I think it's new. best, Daniel SAGE Version 3.1.2, Release Date: 2008-09-19 sage: coxeter_matrix('G2') [1 7] [7 1] sage

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation Quality Initiative

2008-11-06 Thread Rob Beezer
David, Thanks for the peek and the corrections. And thanks for permission to use material from your group theory write-up, which I found very helpful as I got started. Yes, GROUP theory. Graph theory will be next. ;-) Available off the wiki, but I also meant to include a link: http://buzzard

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > Hello folks, > > here goes 3.2.alpha3 - somewhat later than planned. Hopefully we > fixed all numerical doctest noise from #788 (I even reverted a small > number of changes) and otherwise merged a couple other nice patches. > > If this release builds and doctests fine it will

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread John Cremona
Whatever caused that I don't know, but I started again from a fresh download and all was fine. Sorry for the noise. 2008/11/6 John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On my laptop which normally builds Sage fine I get this (at the end of > install.log): > > sage-3.2.alpha3/.hg/store/data/sagebuild.py

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread Franco Saliola
Hello David, On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:51 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With amd64 intrepid ibex, it builds fine but sage -testall > seems to have the same locking-up issues as with the alpha2 version. I'm too am using amd64 intrepid ibex and having the same issues. The followin

[sage-devel] Re: Links between worksheets

2008-11-06 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Rob Beezer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a question about hyperlinks between worksheets. > > I use extensive hyperlinks to reference between definitions, theorems > and proofs. Within a worksheet (one section in the book) these work > fine. I've done some

[sage-devel] Re: Links between worksheets

2008-11-06 Thread Rob Beezer
Thanks, William, for the reply. Might not have been 100% clear about what works and what doesn't. I can edit the text of simple demo worksheets by hand and get the "name=" plus the "#" constructions to move from one worksheet to another and land on the right location. I use tex4ht to translate

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Franco Saliola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello David, > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:51 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> With amd64 intrepid ibex, it builds fine but sage -testall >> seems to have the same locking-up issues as with the alpha2 ver

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread Franco Saliola
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:09 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Franco Saliola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello David, >> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:51 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> With amd64 intrepid ibex, it builds fine bu

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi David, hi Franco, currently Sage has a known weakness with the Maxima synchronization resp. the lisp processes that are started by Maxima, which hits only sporadically and seems to be related to dynamical memory allocation done deep in the bowels of the lisp implementation. It has never been

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Franco Saliola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for checking. I am mystified too. > > Other than a few hangs during testall, all tests besides lisp.py > passed. Which was unexpected because I thought other code that relies > on lisp.py would fail as well. That'

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Nils Bruin
If we change the name and nature of the objects a little bit, one can actually write down examples where Robert D's interpretation is not so outlandish. For instance: sage: var("D, x"); sage: f=D^2+D+1; sage: f(x^3) x^6 + x^3 + 1 In an article about differential operators, one would probably mea

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Re: yet another talk on Sage

2008-11-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
> I believe there used to be such a license, and its use was so low > that they discontinued it. However, I wonder if having the > attribution in, e.g., the .tex source would be sufficient. This would > probably be a good happy medium. Taking a closer look at the CC site, I found this in h

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
IANAM (I am not a mathematician), but from what I see, all the problem comes from the fact that mathematical notation itself (in paper) may be ambiguous. Imagine for example that you see in a paper $f(a+b)$. From common notation one would guess that f is a function and that I'm replacing it's vari

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Peter
I don't see why every SymbolicExpression should be callable. In usual mathematical practice this not assumed, and expressions like x(3) are avoided or interpreted as 3x (=3*x). Only when it is clear that a symbolic name is a function name (like f,g) does function application become the default.

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Qui, 2008-11-06 às 12:02 -0800, Peter escreveu: > I don't see why every SymbolicExpression should be callable. In usual > mathematical practice this not > assumed, and expressions like x(3) are avoided or interpreted as 3x > (=3*x). Only when it is clear that > a symbolic name is a function n

[sage-devel] Re: coxeter matrix bug?

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Daniel, There is a patch for it here: http://sage.math.washington.edu:2144/file/2dbd13f9136f/coxeter_matrix_fixes-nt.patch which should be in the next release of Sage (3.2). --Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegro

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread John Cremona
2008/11/6 John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Whatever caused that I don't know, but I started again from a fresh > download and all was fine. Sorry for the noise. -testall -long: all passed --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@go

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 6, 12:42 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/6 John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Whatever caused that I don't know, but I started again from a fresh > > download and all was fine.  Sorry for the noise. > > -testall -long: all passed Hi John, I would have guess

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 6, 6:11 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:44 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > > here goes 3.2.alpha3 - somewhat later than planned.  Hopefully we > > fixed all numerical doctest noise from #788 (I even reverted a small

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 6, 8:22 am, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As usual sources and a sage.math binary is in > > >http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.2/ > > On Fedora 9, 32 bits: > -- > The following

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 6, 6:11 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:44 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hello folks, >> >> > here goes 3.2.alpha3 - somewhat later than planned. Hopeful

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 6, 1:24 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you run the tests on the build farm or is > > there coming more? > > I only built on bsd and sage.math and modular.  I haven't > built on the build farm.  Should I? Yeah, that would be great. I am curious if we should push

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 6, 1:24 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > Did you run the tests on the build farm or is >> > there coming more? >> >> I only built on bsd and sage.math and modular. I haven't >> built on th

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 6, 1:28 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, that would be great. I am curious if we should push for an rc0 > > fixing only critical bugs in the next 24 hours to release shortly or > > if we shoul

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > Jaap, > > can you please open a ticket for that one. I suspect that we don't > have anything tested via long or that the tests aren't properly marked > "#long time". This one has popped up so often that we really ought to > fix it once and for all since you hit it every time. >

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Robert Dodier
On Nov 5, 10:10 pm, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find this bizarre. I am absolutely certain that I want to view $f$ > as a polynomial in one variable and evaluate it at 10. That's nice. I wouldn't want to stand in your way. What is worrisome here is that you are all too ready t

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Robert Dodier
On Nov 6, 1:02 pm, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Let $f:R\to R$ be defined by $f = x^3+x+1$." > > I would consider this a (fairly harmless) typo, since the author > surely meant "...defined by $f(x) = x^3+x+1$." What if the author really did mean just what he wrote? How could he express it

[sage-devel] Re: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Robert Dodier wrote: > William Stein wrote: > >> Incidentally, if we did allow automatic creation of symbolic >> variables, and default calling of symbolic expressions, then >> doing something like this would happen >> all the time and confuse the crap out of people: >

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Robert Dodier wrote: > On Nov 5, 10:10 pm, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I find this bizarre. I am absolutely certain that I want to view $f$ >> as a polynomial in one variable and evaluate it at 10. > > That's nice. I wouldn't want to stand in your w

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 at 01:09PM -0500, David Joyner wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sagefiles/sage-3.2.alpha3$ ./sage -t > devel/sage/sage/interfaces/lisp.py > sage -t devel/sage/sage/interfaces/lisp.py > [11.8 s] I'm using Intrepid amd64 and get the same failures as Franco. > [EMAIL PROTEC

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha3 released

2008-11-06 Thread mhampton
All tests passed on my intel mac, running 10.4. I am building and testing on a PPC 10.4 as well, but I won't be awake when that finishes. -Marshall On Nov 6, 9:41 pm, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 at 01:09PM -0500, David Joyner wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sagefil

[sage-devel] Re: Links between worksheets

2008-11-06 Thread Rob Beezer
OK, I reran the experiment, but on sagenb.org this time, and everything works as it should. Not sure what the problem was, but I guess my local configuration has shortcomings. I know my initital tests with jsMath a few months ago (outside of Sage) were problematic due to some problems with Firef