[sage-devel] Re: point counting

2007-11-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Martin, The link to which John pointed us gives a very easy way of computing the trace over F_q algebraically, without floating point arithmetic. All we need to do is put John's one-liner PARI code in. I would love to do this, but I don't know h

[sage-devel] example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In response to Harald's and Michael's (very enlightening!) posts, I want to say a few words about educational use of Sage, from a slightly different point of view. I'm teaching mathematics at Colby College, a four-year liberal arts undergraduate

[sage-devel] another problem with modular symbols over finite fields

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, There are instances in which Sage thinks that a one-dimensional space of modular symbols is not simple, and it decomposes the space into a one-dimensional and a zero-dimensional subspace: sage: C=ModularSymbols(1,14,0,GF(5)).cuspidal_submodule(

[sage-devel] Re: Describing Sage as a Mathematics Computing Environment

2007-12-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think Mathematica's official description is a very good example of something we should *not* emulate. The title is simply nonsensical: "the world's most powerful global computing system"? In what sense is Mathematica a "global computing syste

[sage-devel] Re: SCREMS Proposal

2008-01-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi William, I'm sending you a bunch of small corrections, mostly minor, but the kind of thing that might irk grant proposal readers :) It looks impressive, and I hope it goes through. Cheers, Alex In "Project Summary", third paragraph: "greatly e

[sage-devel] is_simplified()

2008-01-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The following is a bit confusing: sage: f=(x-1) sage: f.is_simplified() False sage: g=f.simplify() sage: g x - 1 sage: g.is_simplified() True Is this on purpose? I.e. if one had to describe what the function is_simplified() is supposed to do,

[sage-devel] more on number of digits

2008-01-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, David Harvey made some interesting suggestions on sagetrac about #1014 (implementing a number-of-digits function). I have some comments about this and I decided it might be better to bring the discussion to sage-devel; I'll try to summarize what

[sage-devel] Re: more on number of digits

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I'm quite happy with this (thanks David for suggesting it and Carl for telling me how to do it!) I've put this in and played around with it. It is definitely *much* faster for the huge examples that I tried, and it's also fast enough on smaller

[sage-devel] Re: more on number of digits

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fair enough. One could try to modify mpz_sizeinbase to accept larger bases, although I'm not sure how easy it would be to make it work with *arbitrary* bases. Anyway, this is a bit more involved than what I'm willing to try now. It's definitely som

[sage-devel] Re: more on number of digits

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Bradshaw wrote: > I'm not a fan of the (seemingly arbitrary) 256 limit. Real > intervals have been suggested, why not do something like > > def exact_log(x, base=10): x = abs(x) approx = floor(RIF(x).log() / > RIF(base).log()) min, max = int(ap

[sage-devel] Re: more on number of digits

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, that's what I was wondering about. An integer with 2^53 binary digits eats up 1024 terabytes, so it's gonna be a while before we run into trouble. Besides, we could have an optional precision argument that defaults to 53 at the moment, but can b

[sage-devel] Re: more on number of digits

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
Sorry for replying to my own email. If this still makes sense when I get up tomorrow, I'll sit down and code it. Alex Alex Ghitza wrote: > OK, that's what I was wondering about. An integer with 2^53 binary > digits eats up 1024 terabytes, > so it's gonna be a while before

[sage-devel] long lines get cut off in pdf documentation

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This comes up in the pdf versions of the various documentation files: the tutorial, the reference manual, the programming manual, the constructions file. When you have a long-ish line in a verbatim environment, and it exceeds the width of the pa

[sage-devel] Re: long lines get cut off in pdf documentation

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Grout wrote: > Alex Ghitza wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> This comes up in the pdf versions of the various documentation files: >> the tutorial, the

[sage-devel] Re: trac ticket emails

2008-02-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Cremona wrote: | What's the exact rule for who gets emailed any changes to a trac ticket? | | I would be nice if anyone who had ever made a comment was added to the | ticket's mailing list -- e.g. someone who has reviewed a patch. | (Maybe this h

[sage-devel] Re: trac ticket emails

2008-02-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Stein wrote: | On Feb 17, 2008 12:41 PM, Alex Ghitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> John Cremona wrote: |> | What's the exact rule for who gets emailed any

[sage-devel] plotting cube root function

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is really upsetting: sage: plot(lambda x: x^(1/3), -5, 5) - --- Traceback (most recent call last) /home/ghitza/colby/ma311/ in () /opt/sage/local/lib/python

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

2008-02-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
fix in doctest | #2236: Jason Grout: plot randomizes the endpoints of the interval and |causes wiggling in the graph | #2238: William Stein, Alex Ghitza: doctest failure in const.tex | | Merged in alpha1: | | #174: William Stein: Implement a modular Hermite Normal Form | algorithm

[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 - --

[sage-devel] some more entries for sagemath.org/pub.html

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Ingram, http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2651";>Multiples of integral points on elliptic curves (29 pages), 2008. Nicholas J. Cavenagh, Carlo Hamalainen, Adrian M. Nelson, http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0233";>On completing three cyclic transversals to

[sage-devel] Re: harmonizing derivatives of symbolic expressions and polynomials

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was going to point to trac tickets and comments by David Harvey, but he beat me to the punch :) Since I agree with what he already said, I'll just address one point: Carl Witty wrote: | 1) Do we really need three names for this concept? Could we

[sage-devel] first stab at #1422 (add bibtex function to get citation for Sage components)

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I made a first attempt at a bibtex() function for citing Sage components. It returns a string containing either the citation information in bibtex database format (i.e. what you would put in a .bib file) or in bibliography format (i.e. what

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-trac] [SAGE] #2289: [with doc patch, needs review] make the constructions document prettier and more consistent

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, thanks for bringing up the interaction with #2274. Mercurial will definitely *not* like to merge the two doc patches, since I've made some changes in the coding theory section (in the histogram example, for instance, which we both noticed was

[sage-devel] bug in diff for two variables (was Re: harmonizing ...)

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fallen Seraph wrote: | The IRC channel suggested I post my related bug report here. | | Basically, using the "diff" function is giving me different, and | equally wrong, answers depending on the sytax I use. | | The function I was interested in was: |

[sage-devel] Re: harmonizing derivatives of symbolic expressions and polynomials

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I like the proposed plan. I also agree with Nick on derivative() vs diff(), but since the plan says that both will be around, I can probably live with that. Best, Alex Nick Alexander wrote: | As the author of the one of the patches, possibly so

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.11.alpha1 released!

2008-03-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On a Dual Core machine running Gentoo, I've tried ./sage -tp 1 devel/sage/sage and ./sage -tp 2 devel/sage/sage Both appeared to run fine; the first used only one core and the second used both. Running times: 1878 seconds for one core and 1031 s

[sage-devel] zero-dimensional schemes and multivariate polynomials in zero variables

2008-03-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Martin Albrecht brought up the following issue, in relation to http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2634 "I am not convinced that it is actually desired to allow 0 generators for multivariate polynomial rings. We allowed that be

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.alpha0 released

2008-04-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
dshaw: |transform.pyx calls matrix() with an RDF vector inside of a |list instead of a flat list. | #2698: John Cremona, Alex Ghitza: Small improvements to integer |lcm, gcd on lists and a new xlcm function | #2726: Tim Abbott: SAGE debian build system update | #2729: Robert Bra

[sage-devel] Re: your opinions about 0.digits()

2008-04-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel B. Mohler wrote: | | Since I was the last person to touch the digits method, I'll state my case. | Note that digits was (I think) inconsistent in this regard before my | modifications -- I believe binary was different than other bases, but I don'

[sage-devel] Re: eigenvalues and eigenvectors for matrices

2008-04-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Stein wrote: | On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |> On Apr 3, 2008, at 03:38 , Jason Grout wrote: |> > |> > Currently, depending on the matrix type, there are several different |> > ways to get

[sage-devel] fractional ideals

2008-04-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, On Sunday we had an interesting discussion on #sage-devel about the current implementation of fractional ideals in Sage. This was spurred mainly by #821, but went beyond the issues in that ticket. I am going to try to summarize the main p

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.alpha3 released

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Ghitza
aw: more speedups to cyclotomic polynomials | #2848: Michael Abshoff: numerical noise in sage/misc/prandom.py |on MacIntel OSX 10.5 | #2849: John Cremona, Alex Ghitza: Bug in elliptic curve |cardinality for j=0 in char. 3 | #2852: Tom Boothby: ctrl-enter broken in firefox/linux | #2853: Dan B

[sage-devel] trouble with linear algebra over CC and CDF

2008-04-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, There are some inconsistencies in linear algebra over fields like CDF. Some trouble was already reported in #2256. The following is another issue: sage: M = matrix(CDF, 2, 2, [(-1 - 2*I, 5 - 6*I), (-2 - 4*I, 10 - 12*I)]) sage: M.is_invertible()

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.rc0 released!

2008-04-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
On the following machine: Linux sillyname 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 #2 SMP Tue Aug 28 23:46:12 UTC 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux it compiled fine and passed all tests with one exception: sage -t devel/sage/sage/interfaces/r.py *

[sage-devel] Re: small documentation problem: "\ " at the end of a line

2008-04-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
Dan Drake wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 at 01:25PM -0700, John H Palmieri wrote: > This is exactly why die-hard Python people say "don't use backslashes to > continue statements": > > http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/doanddont.html#using-backslash-to-continue-statements > > Perhaps we should link

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.1.rc0 released!

2008-05-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
Built fine on Linux sillyname 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 #2 SMP Tue Aug 28 23:46:12 UTC 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Doing 'make test', got stuck at dsage/tests/testdoc.py so I had to kill it. I've put the build log at http://bayes.colby.edu/~ghitza/inst

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.2.alpha0 released!

2008-05-12 Thread Alex Ghitza
Built and tested on three machines running Gentoo. One of them passed without any glitches, but the other two got stuck at testdoc.py (the same way as in 3.0.1). Best, Alex mabshoff wrote: > Hello folks, > > this is Sage 3.0.2.alpha0. What happened? It seems that people > were busy and unt

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.2.alpha0 released!

2008-05-12 Thread Alex Ghitza
mabshoff wrote: > On May 12, 9:45 pm, Alex Ghitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > >> Built and tested on three machines running Gentoo. One of them passed >> without any glitches, but the other two got stuck at testdoc.py (the >> same way

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.2-alpha1 released!

2008-05-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
Built and tested on three x86 machines running Gentoo. All three had the exact same failures as the ones David reported earlier: sage -t devel/sage/sage/server/simple/twist.py sage -t devel/sage/sage/server/support.py Best, Alex mabshoff wrote: > Hello folks, > > the 3.0

[sage-devel] Re: how to make tut and ref

2008-09-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
John Cremona wrote: > On another point, how exactly did you merge a whole sequence of > patches into one? I tried that using a very error-prone manual way > (create newclone, copy all files which I know have changed under the > patch sequence from oldclone to newclone, then commit). I'm sure you

[sage-devel] Re: precision() in pari

2008-09-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi John, I am about to put up a patch at #4064 (I'm adding a couple more doctests). It is not perfect (it does not have proper doctests for 64 bit machines since I don't have access to one), but I hope we can make it work soon. Basically, I spent two days reading the libs/pari code and despairi

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc1 released

2008-09-09 Thread Alex Ghitza
e build and test and report any issues. >> Hopefully we will fix the ghmm/hmm Itanium issue tomorrow and move the >> last step toward 3.1.2.final - the release is overdue. I also noticed >> an odd failure in >> >> matrix/matrix_real_double_dense.pyx >> >> on

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc1 released

2008-09-09 Thread Alex Ghitza
For the record, replacing polybori-05rc.p3.spkg with the new p4 version and continuing the build process worked for me (dell laptop running ubuntu). Alex Georg S. Weber wrote: > sorry, > but the "polybori-05rc.p4.spkg" you pointed to (http:// > sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cy

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc3 released

2008-09-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
Builds fine on 32-bit ubuntu. As with rc2, there's trouble in sage0.py, and a few related problems in randstate.pyx; I added a comment about this at trac #4116. Best, Alex mabshoff wrote: > Hello folks, > > we are getting very close now. We fixed a bunch of blocker doctest > issues and also

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc5/final released

2008-09-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi, It built fine on 3 machines: - 32-bit dell laptop running ubuntu - 64-bit 4-processor (AMD) running redhat of some sort - 32-bit mac os x laptop Testing was also successful on the first two machines, and ongoing on the third (I'll report if anything goes amiss). There's one weird thing: ma

[sage-devel] Re: mini talk during Software Freedom Day 2008

2008-09-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi, 3 minutes is unbelievably short. However, since you asked for suggestions, here are some things that would be good to get across: - programming in Sage is programming in Python; no need to learn some arcane custom-built language in order to use Sage and contribute to it - the development mo

[sage-devel] fixes to the real precision for Pari library (trac #4096)

2008-09-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi folks, John Cremona and I have been working for the past two weeks on fixing the way real precision gets passed from Sage to the Pari library and back. Things were extremely broken, due mostly to a misunderstanding of how the Pari library (as opposed to GP sessions) deals with precision for ine

[sage-devel] Re: fixes to the real precision for Pari library (trac #4096)

2008-09-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
e tell me, to > combine efforts (not blindly just double them), thanks! > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- University of Melbourne -- Australia --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal for Inclusion into Sage: Sphinx, Docutils, Pygments, and Jinja

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
Yes. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > VOTE: > [ ] Yes, include these in Sage > [ ] No, do not (please explain) > [ ] Hmm, I have questions (please ask). > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- Universit

[sage-devel] Re: [MPFR] Re: mpfr_sinh_cosh

2008-09-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
fr. > > Of course, any development help with mpc itself is also highly > welcome! The only catch is that like mpfr, we follow the semantics > that the result should be as exact as possible (the input is assumed > to be an exact rational number, the output is rounded according to &g

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha2 released

2008-09-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
les-3.1.3/ > > Please test and report issues as usual. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > #686: Martin Albrecht: write MPolynomial_libsingular over number > fields [Reviewed by Alex Ghitza] > #767: John Palmieri: animate has cryptic error message when > imagemagick is not installed [

[sage-devel] quotient rings

2008-10-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
me up while writing a fix for trac #4218. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.c

[sage-devel] coercion of variables

2008-10-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
iscard this as wrong. Also, it's not just an issue with symbolic variables: sage: R = QQ['x'] sage: S = QQ['t'] sage: S(x) t I don't know what to do. If we want to keep the last two behaviors, it seems that we're stuck with the first one as well. Best,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha3 released

2008-10-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
eers, > Martin > > -- > name: Martin Albrecht > _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 > _www: > http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb<http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/%7Emalb> > _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >

[sage-devel] 1/0 is somewhat inconsistent

2008-10-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
both cases. For that matter, I'm not quite sure why 1/RR(0) is +infinity rather than -infinity, so I guess I would prefer for *that* to be UnsignedInfinity as well. On the other hand, I don't really use this sort of thing every day, so maybe someone who's closer to this issue can chime

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.rc0 released

2008-10-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
chael Abshoff: sage -bdist fails on osx 10.5 ppc and intel > with libpng errors [Reviewed by Mike Hansen] > #4214: Alex Ghitza: elliptic_logarithm gives inaccurate answers > [Reviewed by Georg Weber] > #4219: Michael Abshoff: MacOSX: work around java detection hang in r > due to &q

[sage-devel] Re: Bordeaux talk tomorrow

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Ghitza
seconds, > butt it takes a few minutes using S: > > I am not really awake, but if I find more I will let you know. > > > -- William > > This talk (and the other two?) should obviously be stuffed (together > with John's talk from SD 10) into some manual. > > Cheers, > &

[sage-devel] Re: modular forms talk slides

2008-10-16 Thread Alex Ghitza
> for the talk I'm > giving tomorrow. The sage notebook and a normal article (or new section > for the Sage documentation that will be in ReST) or the real format in > which > this talk will live longterm... > > -- William > > -- > William Stein > Associate

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha0 released

2008-10-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
#4297: Robert Bradshaw: make sage -cython work on .spyx and library > files [Reviewed by Robert Miller] > #4304: Martin Albrecht: split up NTL's decl.pxi [Reviewed by Robert > Bradshaw, Michael Abshoff] > #4311: Anne Schilling: added documentation for tensor prod

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha1 released

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
pport). The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage/sage/tests/book_stein_ent.py Total time for all tests: 2701.7 seconds This is the same issue as the one reported previously in this thread. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Aust

[sage-devel] Re: Saving graphs to Postscript

2007-07-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi, This seems to be a machine- or OS-dependent problem. On my Dell laptop running Gentoo, the .eps file is created ok and I can view it with display (ImageMagick) and evince, and make it into pdf using ps2pdf. From your error message, it appears to be font-related. Do you have the same pr

[sage-devel] sage-2.7.3 install, a couple of issues

2007-08-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi, I've run into a couple of problems while installing sage-2.7.3: 1. first I tried to install it from scratch; it choked on lapack-20070723, and here's the end of install.log: Host system uname -a: Linux latitude 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Wed

[sage-devel] Re: new colloquium talk on SAGE

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Great stuff. page 3: I understand that you're quoting someone else, nevertheless it's "Moldova", not "Moldava" page 9: the citation source for Okounkov's quote is missing (shows as [?]) page 11: maybe change the line "Commutative algebra: Singular"

[sage-devel] Re: Getting Geometry in SAGE

2007-08-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, About 30 seconds of google-ing "gpl commercial" yielded the following email written by Richard Stallman (see below). Of course, it is *theoretically* possible that he is also "confused about the GPL", but I think that's unlikely. Of course, I a

[sage-devel] Re: New Axiom package

2007-08-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Installed successfully on Dell Latitude D620 (Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz) running Gentoo and sage-2.8. It's slow because the laptop was running on battery, and hence throttled down. real29m12.096s user26m1.034s sys 1m22.641s Successfully ins

[sage-devel] ticket #59 (optimize elliptic curve arithmetic)

2007-08-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've looked at ticket #59, in which David Kohel says: William, my student noticed some slow performance with elliptic curves group law. I think there was a huge overhead in duplication: sage: E = EllipticCurve([GF(101)(1),3]) sage: P =

[sage-devel] ticket #59 (optimize elliptic curve arithmetic)

2007-08-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just noticed that this ticket was closed as fixed. To quote trac: - - I guess this has been fixed. With Sage 2.8.2 I get: sage: E = EllipticCurve([GF(101)(1),3]) sage: P = E([-1,1,1]) sage:

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.3.rc2.tar

2007-08-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, rc2 builds on Machine: Linux sillyname 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 #2 SMP Tue Aug 28 23:46:12 UTC 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux real53m35.322s user48m47.946s sys 4m20.216s There are some issues in ma

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.3.rc2.tar

2007-08-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sure enough, rc3 builds and all tests pass. Alex Alex Ghitza wrote: > Hi, > > rc2 builds on > > Machine: Linux sillyname 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 #2 SMP Tue Aug 28 23:46:12 UTC > 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz Genu

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] sage-2.8.6

2007-10-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Builds fine on Machine: Linux latitude 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Wed Jul 18 15:19:23 EDT 2007 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux There was one test failure: **

[sage-devel] Re: point counting

2007-11-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
org/sage_trac/ticket/262 > > again. Here Graeme Taylor proposes his implementation of point counting of > elliptic curves over GF(p^n) with coefficients in GF(p) in Weierstrass form. > > He describes the background at: > > http://maths.straylight.co.uk/archives/69 >

[sage-devel] more trouble with comparisons

2009-04-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
our __cmp__ methods are not getting called, verify that the # canonical_coercion(x,y) is not throwing errors. The last part seems to be what's happening. But what does that mean, and how can I fix it? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Mel

[sage-devel] Re: more trouble with comparisons

2009-04-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
Spectrum of Integer Ring Defn: Identity map Call morphism: From: Set of points of Spectrum of Integer Ring defined over Integer Ring To: Set of points of Spectrum of Integer Ring defined over Integer Ring }}} -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -

[sage-devel] Re: more trouble with comparisons

2009-04-25 Thread Alex Ghitza
(X.identity_morphism()) }}} Note the absence of output from the last command -- that's the None that's creating all the trouble. OK, I think I can fix this now. Robert and William, thanks for the help! Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of

[sage-devel] Re: comparison of morphisms

2009-04-25 Thread Alex Ghitza
; >>>> Shouldn't this return True? >> >> Yes >> >>>>   Shouldn't a test like this be somewhere >>>> in rings/morphism.pyx? >> >> Yes. >> > > This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5820 > And

[sage-devel] Re: multipolynomial bug

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
ses > elliptic_curves/ell_point.py to fail.  So the bug might have been > around for a while. > > John > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

[sage-devel] Re: multipolynomial bug

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
A bit more info: on sage.math, it is working fine in sage-2.0, but not in sage-2.10 (or anything later). I realise that quite a bit happened between 2.0 and 2.10, but that's the only 2.*'s that I can run (2.5 and 2.6 complain bitterly when started). Weird. -- Alex Ghitza -- L

[sage-devel] Re: multipolynomial bug

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
this :) Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[sage-devel] Re: multipolynomial bug

2009-04-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
check whether the problem is in GF2X_coeff or in GF2_conv_to_long, let alone how to fix this. Hopefully someone else can figure it out. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~

[sage-devel] Re: multipolynomial bug

2009-04-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
n to a seminar or I would make the patch... > Good stuff. Now I can go back to schemes :). -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to thi

[sage-devel] Re: 3.4.1.rc0 reviews ... tick tock

2009-04-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
views: - #5479 is 10 lines of code and a bunch of doctests. it has to do viewing a prime ideal of R as a point of the scheme Spec(R) - #5820 is really trivial: 3 lines of code and some doctests. it adds a missing method for comparison of coercion ring morphisms. Alex -- Alex Ghitza

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.rc0 release!

2009-04-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
On a couple of 32-bit machines running archlinux, upgraded and built fine from 3.4.2.alpha0, and everything under "make ptestlong" passes. Best, Alex On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:23 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > Hello folks, > > here goes 3.4.2.rc0 - a little later than planned, but it seems like > we

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.rc0 release!

2009-05-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
** > 1 items had failures: >   1 of   9 in __main__.example_18 > ***Test Failed*** 1 failures. > For whitespace errors, see the file /home/mabshoff/build-3.4.2.rc0/ > sage-3.4.2.rc0-ciero-gcc-4.3.3/tmp/.doctest_matrix_symbolic_dense.py >         [113.0 s] >

[sage-devel] Re: [ANN] sage-mode-0.5.3

2009-05-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
> * Please see http://www.sagemath.org//packages for a list of valid > * packages or check the package name. > ****** > > I could not find sage-mode on http://www.sagemath.org/packages/ > --

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.rc0 release!

2009-05-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
the right one. You can maybe guess from the timings why I didn't try prime_pi(2^51). I have, however, tried smaller values. I'm going to put that data up on the trac ticket. I have absolutely no idea what's wrong, but something definitely is, and hopefully this will help someone fix i

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.rc0 release!

2009-05-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
[46, 2280998753949], [47, 4454203917918]] And as mentioned before, the values up to 46 are correct, and the value at 47 is wrong. > PS, Mathematica computes PrimePi[some_negative_number] as 0. Does Sage > handle that case ok? > sage: prime_pi(-20

[sage-devel] Re: Questions on "Producing New Sage Packages" in the devel guide

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Ghitza
Sage Packages" at > http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/developer/producing_spkgs.html > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To po

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.rc0 release!

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Ghitza
I can't work out right now what time it will be in Melbourne during these talks, but if it's not during my teaching/seminars/office hours then I would happily watch a live video stream. (So I guess my answer is pretty much isomorphic to Jason Grout's.) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2 released (and this time it is the final one)

2009-05-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
by Jaap Spies] > #5983: Michael Abshoff: cmp related doctest failure in sage/schemes/ > jacobians/abstract_jacobian.py [Reviewed by William Stein] > #5984: Michael Abshoff: cmp related doctest failure in sage/modular/ > arithgroup/arithgroup_perm.py [Reviewed by William Stein] > #599

[sage-devel] Re: chain complexes over the integers are not abelian

2009-05-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
quot;NotImplemented" or "False"?  I'm not sure.) > I'm strongly in favour of NotImplementedError, since False would possibly quietly return a mathematically wrong answer. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University o

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc0 released!

2009-05-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
vertical asympotes [Reviewed by > Marshall Hampton] > #6036: Kwankyu Lee: a bug in polynomial() for PolynomialRing(GF(5),2) > [Reviewed by Mike Hansen] > #6037: Jon Hanke: Major Upgrade to QuadraticForm Local Density > Routines [Reviewed by Gonzalo Tornaria] > #6040: Jon Hanke: Ad

[sage-devel] Re: Should we include Michael Stoll's ratpoints as a standard spkg?

2009-05-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
are some memory leaks in ratpoints, but we will work on fixing > these next week at Dagstuhl. > > Statistics: > spkg size: 255K > time to build: 5.6 secs > > What does everyone think? +1, and thanks for your work on this! Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lec

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc0 released!

2009-05-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
on't draw vertical asympotes [Reviewed by > Marshall Hampton] > #6036: Kwankyu Lee: a bug in polynomial() for PolynomialRing(GF(5),2) > [Reviewed by Mike Hansen] > #6037: Jon Hanke: Major Upgrade to QuadraticForm Local Density > Routines [Reviewed by Gonzalo Tornaria] > #6040:

[sage-devel] Re: How do I run the tests?

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
to also include long doctests. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To uns

[sage-devel] Re: reviewing tickets

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
;t know enough about trac to see if it can be done, but maybe this can spur some activity in this direction. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc2 released!

2009-05-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
a Linux artin 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 20 07:06:02 UTC 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I will try to downgrade my gcc and rebuild sage, and I'll report what happens. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics --

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc2 released!

2009-05-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Alex Ghitza wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On my dell laptop running archlinux, my build from scratch fails at >> eclib.  I've extracted the relevant part from install

[sage-devel] bug in plot3d?

2009-05-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
I have tried this in 3.4.1, 3.4.2, and 4.0.rc2, without success: plot3d(lambda x,y: exp(x+y*I).real(), (-2, 2.4), (-3, 3), mesh=True) I get a nice looking surface (see attached jpeg file), but no mesh lines. Is anybody else experiencing this? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in

[sage-devel] Re: coercion of polynomials with integer coefficients

2009-05-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
.roots(R) > > How do I convert or coerce poly to be in R? > Here is one option: def myroots(p): R = IntegerModRing(p) RR. = R[] f = poly(x=t) return f.roots(R) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics --

[sage-devel] Re: coercion of polynomials with integer coefficients

2009-05-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
give more details (which version of Sage are you using, are you working in the command line or the notebook). Best, Alex On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:21 PM, wkehowski wrote: > > Thanks, but here is the error message: > > TypeError: polynomial must be over a field of characteristic

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