[sage-devel] Re: notebook hack of the day

2012-05-12 Thread P Purkayastha
Dima had created a button for it, which said "Evaluate and stay" just next to the "Evaluate" button. It stopped the worksheet from jumping around. Maybe he can tell you in detail how he achieved that. :) On Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:08:33 AM UTC+8, William wrote: > > Hi, > > Have you ever given

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic variables and uninitialized variables.

2012-05-12 Thread Keshav Kini
kcrisman writes: > I've introduced this concept to probably hundreds of people in many > talks, workshops, and Joint Meetings discussions, and I have a strong > suspicion that dumping 'x' will lead to more dumps of Sage than you > think - by those who are not yet using it but are starting to final

Re: [sage-devel] notebook hack of the day

2012-05-12 Thread Florent Hivert
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:08:33PM -0400, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Have you ever given a presentation with the Sage notebook and been > annoyed by it "jumping all over the place" when you press shift-enter > or click "evaluate"? Then do: > > html('cell_focus=function(x,y){} ') Cool ! At t

[sage-devel] Re: Test of sagemath ppa for Ubuntu 12.04

2012-05-12 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:50:16PM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote: > I think two packages are a bit much as there is already > the recommends field. Ah, I did non know about this recommends field. Then that sounds perfect. Thanks! Nicolas -- Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil"

[sage-devel] Re: Test of sagemath ppa for Ubuntu 12.04

2012-05-12 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On 11 May 2012 15:49, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:07:59PM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote: >>    Yes, the goal of this is definitely ease-of-use and to get the user >>    as quick and painless as possible into a fully featured sage on Ubuntu. >> >>    FYI, I will probably

[sage-devel] Re: Test of sagemath ppa for Ubuntu 12.04

2012-05-12 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On 11 May 2012 15:49, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:07:59PM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote: >>    Yes, the goal of this is definitely ease-of-use and to get the user >>    as quick and painless as possible into a fully featured sage on Ubuntu. >> >>    FYI, I will probably

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Symbolic variables and uninitialized variables.

2012-05-12 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/12/2012 08:19 AM, Keshav Kini wrote: > > The latter conversation is an approximation of one that I had about five > times near the beginning of our semester-long Sage class for > undergraduates last fall, and which I'm sure other tutors for the class > must have gone through as well with oth

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic variables and uninitialized variables.

2012-05-12 Thread Simon King
Hi, On 2012-05-12, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > If there was no predefined 'x', the first documentation you would run > into would (have to) tell you how to define symbolic variables, and > explain the differences between the methods. It could also explain the > polynomial thing, the different domai

[sage-devel] Hiring mathematical programmers!

2012-05-12 Thread Robert Miller
Hi all, I am looking for mathematical programmers to join my team. I work at a startup in downtown San Francisco that focuses on distilling the enormous amounts of publicly available data (think patents, FDA trials, FBO grants, news, twitter, etc.) into intelligible insights and narratives. We are

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic variables and uninitialized variables.

2012-05-12 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:28:38 PM UTC+2, 3DRaven wrote: > > There is a suggestion to developers. The construction of > x = var('x') > solve(x^2 + 3*x + 2, x) > is inconvenient and not beautiful. Can do whatever in the sage of any > uninitialized variable was considered a symbolic? in th

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic variables and uninitialized variables.

2012-05-12 Thread kcrisman
On May 12, 4:26 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:28:38 PM UTC+2, 3DRaven wrote: > > > There is a suggestion to developers. The construction of > > x = var('x') > > solve(x^2 + 3*x + 2, x) > > is inconvenient and not beautiful. Can do whatever in the sage of any > > uniniti

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Symbolic variables and uninitialized variables.

2012-05-12 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:56 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > On May 12, 4:26 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: >> On Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:28:38 PM UTC+2, 3DRaven wrote: >> >> > There is a suggestion to developers. The construction of >> > x = var('x') >> > solve(x^2 + 3*x + 2, x) >> > is inconvenient and n