Re: [sage-devel] Textbook converted to Sage worksheets

2010-08-28 Thread Tim Daly
Rob Beezer wrote: I've converted Tom Judson's open-source Abstract Algebra textbook (http://abstract.pugetsound.edu) from Latex to a series of Sage worksheets (one per chapter) with almost no compromises (ie the same source also builds a faithful PDF). Cross-worksheet links are not supporte

[sage-devel] Re: gcd and lcm for field elements

2010-08-28 Thread Sebastian Pancratz
On Aug 27, 1:00 pm, luisfe wrote: > I have added a new ticket for adding a default gcd and lcm for field > elements. > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9819 > > For the case of field elements gcd and lcm methods are not of great > interest. However, they can be addecuated for some reaso

[sage-devel] on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
This is separation from the thread "Those cookies again..." at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/a520d6310ceac1b1 Hi David, On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > In my opinion, (and one I think that is shared by Peter too), Sage needs to > dev

[sage-devel] Re: on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Mike, On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Mike Witt wrote: > For whatever it's worth I'd like to say that I emphatically agree > that more attention to fixing bugs (presumably at the expense of > adding features) would make Sage *much* more viable from my point > of view. My point of view being a

[sage-devel] broken latex conversion of simple expression

2010-08-28 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
Dear all, I observed (slightly more complicated example of) this bug in the web reports sage: latex(-(x+1)/(x+2)) \frac{-x + 1}{x + 2} I remember that Burcin fixed some relevant problems recently ( http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9314 ), but similar problem presists. I think that it is

[sage-devel] Re: on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Simon, On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Simon King wrote: > Hi All! > > Shouldn't this discussion better go to sage-devel? Yes. I have moved it to sage-devel and opened a separate thread. > On 22 Aug., 22:01, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >> ... >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0006/ > >

[sage-devel] Re: Textbook converted to Sage worksheets

2010-08-28 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Tim, Thanks for the reply and the interest in integrating Axiom with this. I think it could be very easy to adapt my conversion process to have any added code cells executed by Axiom in the Sage notebook, either cell-by-cell or as the default language for an entire worksheet. Creating some Axi

[sage-devel] Re: on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread kcrisman
Many good comments, Minh. > new addition available in the mainline tree. This means that it is > conceivable that one has a script or process that automatically does a > nightly or daily build and test run through the whole of the latest > mainline tree. Contrast the above situation to the current

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Random banter about Sage standards

2010-08-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 08/27/10 07:24 PM, mhampton wrote: >> >> For the record, I tried the above calculation at least 250,000 times >> on two macs (running OSX 10.5 and 10.6) and on Ubuntu 9.10 with a i7 >> 860 processor, had no errors.  This was on Sage-4.

[sage-devel] Re: on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread koffie
I really like the idea of switching to multiple actively managed maintained sage versions which is suggested somewhere in this thread. I just happened to have suggested it also in a response to Williams blog http://389a.blogspot.com/2010/08/computational-projects-part-1.html. Where he discusses the