[sage-devel] Re: web page redesign

2007-05-07 Thread David Harvey
I guess because I usually think of GNU as an umbrella project, whereas I think of Python and Firefox as more specific, and I see them all over the place all the time. David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com T

[sage-devel] Re: Teach a man to fish

2007-05-09 Thread David Joyner
Since you asked:-) A small project would be to look at the DE-related code in the *.sage files contained in SAGEHOME/examples/calculus and create a SAGE/Python module from them. They may be fine as is or may need some changes (I wrote them but would very much appreciate another person's perspecti

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE-2.5 (!)

2007-05-09 Thread David Harvey
14.8 seconds Ummm I just did a clean install of sage 2.5 on a powerpc OS X, and the cf directory doesn't even exist. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" gr

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE-2.5 (!)

2007-05-09 Thread David Harvey
tain as FLINT matures, until the time is ready to actually bring it into SAGE. David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options

[sage-devel] Re: eigenspaces?

2007-05-10 Thread David Joyner
not pointed out anywhere in the tutorial or > reference manual. In every book I've used, "eigenvector" means the > right-eigenvector. > > -Marshall Hampton > > On Dec 4 2006, 12:39 pm, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is a completely sepa

[sage-devel] new version of NTL

2007-05-11 Thread David Harvey
Zimmerman). ======= David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel

[sage-devel] Re: floor function does not play nicely with RealIntervalField?

2007-05-11 Thread David Harvey
integer. > After all the point of an IntervalField is to have results which are > guaranteed to be correct. I would want the floor function to return an element of the IntegerInterval ring. Sadly it does not exist as far as I know. David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

[sage-devel] Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: Teach a man to fish

2007-05-11 Thread David Roe
ey were as they were. The reason to use Integer(i) in general is that, in .py and .pyx files, if you use just i, Python will use Python ints, which may or may not be what you want (it's somewhat useful as loop variables, but otherwise you'd probabl

[sage-devel] Fwd: [Maxima] Computer algebra system?

2007-05-11 Thread David Joyner
"SAGE in the news" - from a recent thread in the maxima email list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Vadim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 11, 2007 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [Maxima] Computer algebra system? To: Hedos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hedos wrote: > Hello! > Than

[sage-devel] Fwd: [Maxima] Computer algebra system? / SAGE and Pipes

2007-05-12 Thread David Joyner
more "SAGE in the News" -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Fateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 12, 2007 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [Maxima] Computer algebra system? / SAGE and Pipes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The comment that SAGE's mechanisms are good (or adequate) for linking vario

[sage-devel] Re: Problems with modules over rings

2007-05-13 Thread David Joyner
But shouldn't the rank of m (as a (ZZ/4ZZ)-module) be 1? I'm surprised someone implemented (if even bug-ily, if bug-ily is a word) a method for determining the rank of a (ZZ/mZZ)-module, for M is not a prime. Nick Alexander wrote: > > sage: m = matrix(Integers(4), 2, 2, [2, 2, 2, 2]) > > sage:

[sage-devel] NTL tuning

2007-05-13 Thread David Harvey
"give me the high-performance version, I don't care if the build takes a bit longer". Does this already exist? I mean something like "make fast". Actually maybe that's a bad name, maybe it should be called "make slow" :-) david --~--~-~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: MPolynomial.coeffient

2007-05-14 Thread David Joyner
On 5/14/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am having trouble re-implementing MPolynomial.coeffient. The docstring > states: > > If f is this polynomial, then the coefficient is the sum T/mon > where the sum is over terms T in f that are exactly divis

[sage-devel] Re: NTL tuning

2007-05-14 Thread David Harvey
On May 13, 2007, at 9:59 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 5/13/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I recently wrote a C++ program that uses the NTL library for >> polynomial arithmetic. I wrote a pyrex wrapper and put it into SAGE. >> (Hopefully it will

[sage-devel] Re: MPolynomial.coeffient

2007-05-14 Thread David Joyner
Using the analogy with primes, p^e||n iff p^e|n and p^{e+1} not not divide n: y^e||f(x,y) iff y^{e}|f(x,y) and y^{e+1} does not divide f(x,y). Here I'm implicitly assuming that y is a generator of the ring which f(x,y) belongs to. For monomials which are not generators then I'm not sure what "exa

[sage-devel] Re: MPolynomial.coeffient

2007-05-14 Thread David Joyner
On 5/14/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 14 May 2007 15:00, Michel wrote: > > Assuming all this is correct then I can see > > > > > why Martin is objecting to the docstring's vagueness, but AFAIK the > > > behavior is correct. > > > > Yes I now thinks so too. > > Pleas

[sage-devel] apache leaking?

2007-05-14 Thread David Harvey
Is there a resource leak problem with apache on sage.math? Almost half of sage.math's memory is being eaten by a few www-data processes. Is that someone running crazy things on the notebook? david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becaus

[sage-devel] Re: apache leaking?

2007-05-14 Thread David Harvey
x27;s right, my laptop can't address that much memory. Never mind. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit th

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE Days 4 -- interesting projects?

2007-05-15 Thread David Joyner
wing > perhaps ``Algorithms for Linear Algebra Problems over Principal Ideal > Rings'' (1996), Johannes Buchmann, Stefan Neis at > > http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/719844.html > > I'm also very interested in working on the commutative diagram > coercion model proposed

[sage-devel] room-mate anyone?

2007-05-15 Thread David Harvey
I will probably be sharing a hotel room 11th - 14th (inclusive) with Craig. This leaves me with the 15th and 16th. Does anyone else need a room then. Nick, I noticed you have asked about 14th - 16th. So we overlap except for one day. david

[sage-devel] Re: a "press release"

2007-05-16 Thread David Joyner
I would first try to interest a Seattle Times reporter in the David vs Goliath slant. They will know when the sauce is being poured on too thick.I agree this is a bit confontational in tone but I also agree with Dennis' sentiments (if I understand them) which is to try to create a "god

[sage-devel] Re: a "press release"

2007-05-16 Thread David Roe
open source, I don't think one can really describe their functionality as limited. I don't think it's worth angering people who develop and use those systems in order to interest people who have no idea what Mathematica is. David On 5/16/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-devel] Re: a "press release"

2007-05-16 Thread David Harvey
. They can go about their business, and we can go about ours. I'm also not quite sure what is the point of advertising to the general public. We should be focusing our marketing at potential users and developers, which are mainly people in academic (research or teaching) and engineering setti

[sage-devel] notebook problem

2007-05-16 Thread David Harvey
When I click on "view the tutorial" from sagenb.org, I get some funny error message about proxy servers. Is the problem with my ISP, or is it at the notebook server end? david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: generic subs/substitute

2007-05-17 Thread David Harvey
arentWithGens. We don't have a ElementOfParentWithGens though, do we. David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options,

[sage-devel] RFC: the subresultant algorithm

2007-05-17 Thread David Roe
I may be implementing something like this for p-adics soon. It's one of the options for doing gcds meaningfully. If anyone else is interested in working on this, get in touch with me. David On 5/17/07, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is rather frustrating that sa

[sage-devel] Re: Magma, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, and SAGE

2007-05-17 Thread David Harvey
ight have: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/survey.pdf Clearly, if we're going to get anywhere, we need to start with M. I propose renaming the project MAGE. David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegro

[sage-devel] Re: More polynomial algebra problems!

2007-05-18 Thread David Harvey
o address, and a number of us are planning to devote considerable time to it at the next SAGE developer's workshop in mid-June. My guess, without looking at the code, is that it's probably not worth trying to fix the particular problem you noted, it would probably end

[sage-devel] Re: More polynomial algebra problems!

2007-05-18 Thread David Harvey
e to discuss this more easily at SD4. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group

[sage-devel] Re: More polynomial algebra problems!

2007-05-18 Thread David Harvey
hat it will do is make much more sophisticated canonical > coercions possible, which the current system doesn't support. > I very much want to see such more sophisticated coercions > be supported in the future. Robert Bradshaw and I spent > a lot of time thinking up almost the same

[sage-devel] Re: automatic sage upgrade notification?

2007-05-18 Thread David Joyner
How would this work? If sagemath was down or there wasn't a net connection would there be a weird error? Would it confuse users who could not update (eg, students using the SAGE notebook in a lab)? On 5/18/07, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

[sage-devel] Re: automatic sage upgrade notification?

2007-05-18 Thread David Joyner
I'm worried that this check is going to slow down a developer working on a cloned copy. In this case, one is probably not interested in updating. Could this auto-update be turned off by default in all clones? William Stein wrote: > On 5/18/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[sage-devel] Re: bug in gcd over GF(p^2)?

2007-05-18 Thread David Joyner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Given: I'm currently taking undergrad algebra, and I'm not as well-steeped in > fields as I'd like. But Wikipedia tells me that a polynomial ring over any > field is Euclidean... so this seems horribly, horribly wrong. > A polynomial ring in one variable over a fiel

[sage-devel] gdmodule?

2007-05-21 Thread David Harvey
Is gdmodule currently in SAGE? I can see files with the name gdmodule in them, but I would have thought I could just do "import gdmodule", but that doesn't work. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@goog

[sage-devel] Re: gdmodule?

2007-05-21 Thread David Harvey
On May 21, 2007, at 11:06 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 5/21/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is gdmodule currently in SAGE? I can see files with the name gdmodule >> in them, but I would have thought I could just do "import gdmodule", >>

[sage-devel] Re: Coercion bug

2007-05-22 Thread David Roe
le to recognize this kind of situation and handle it appropriately. Personally, I'd like to see what comes out of discussions at SD4 (or before too I suppose) on the feasibility of such an extension to Sage's coercion model, and how it would work. David On 5/22/07, Michel <[EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: symbol number radian degree

2007-05-22 Thread David Harvey
On May 22, 2007, at 3:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Are we going to throw exceptions when units of differing type > are added? > > 1*meters + 2*meters*meters : NOT OK. > 1*meters + 2*feet = ... in feet or meters? (I say meters) I say

[sage-devel] Re: symbol number radian degree

2007-05-22 Thread David Roe
I hate significant figures. Use real error propogation and standard deviations instead. David On 5/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Harvey wrote: > > >> 1*meters + 2*meters*meters : NOT OK. > &g

[sage-devel] integer multiplication

2007-05-23 Thread David Harvey
e anything for computations of a practical size. My guess is that it wouldn't start beating existing implementations until you're trying to multiply integers with perhaps 2^100 digits. Give or take a few. I might be wrong about this though; the author of t

[sage-devel] Re: 2.5.3 and gcc-2.4.0 linbox problem

2007-05-23 Thread David Harvey
ges, it looks like linbox got hit by this > change (from http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html): > "The (undocumented) extension which permitted templates with default > arguments to be bound to template template parameters with fewer > parameters has been removed." I w

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: plotting a maxima fcn

2007-05-24 Thread David Joyner
On 5/23/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/23/07, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Surface plots are very important for my sage-teaching plans. > > Currently the maxima surface plots don't work for a notebook running > > on a different machine (unless there is som

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: plotting a maxima fcn

2007-05-24 Thread David Joyner
(sqrt(x^2 + y^2)) > def c(x,y,z): >return (abs(z),0,abs(sin(sqrt(x^2+y^2 > > testplot(f,srange(-5,5,.1),srange(-5,5,.1),colorf=c).show(axes=False) > > > > > On Thu, 24 May 2007, David Joyner wrote: > > > > > On 5/23/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PR

[sage-devel] Re: Unit element of a ring

2007-05-24 Thread David Harvey
ich is initialized in the > constructor. Strong +1 for this. I can't believe we don't already have it :-) Not sure I would want it called _unit_ though, makes me think rather of invertible elements. How about _one_, or _unity_? david --~--~-~--~~~---~

[sage-devel] Re: Unit element of a ring

2007-05-24 Thread David Harvey
hy as simple as possible. For now it might be better to just put the _one_ attribute on CommutativeRing. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

[sage-devel] Re: Intel Mac OS X Dmg

2007-05-24 Thread David Joyner
Works fine for me. On 5/24/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > If you use an intel-based mac, could you possibly try out the dmg that > I've posted here > and let me know if it works for you: > > http://www.sagemath.org/incoming/ > > It is supposed to be the case that wh

[sage-devel] Fwd: [Maxima] plot3d openmath question

2007-05-25 Thread David Joyner
ion To: David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: maxima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 22:30 -0400, David Joyner wrote: > Thanks but just to be clear, I'm interested in knowing whether or not > there is a > command such as > > plot3d (2^(-u^2 + v^2), [u, -3, 3]

[sage-devel] Re: OT: point counting

2007-05-26 Thread David Harvey
clusion into sage? See > > http://wis.kuleuven.be/algebra/hubrechts/ It looks like he has implemented it only in MAGMA. So for inclusion in SAGE, it would need to be re-implemented in one of SAGE, python, pyrex, C, C++ etc. David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

[sage-devel] Re: divmod, quo_rem: inconsistency of sage methods with standard sage methods

2007-05-26 Thread David Harvey
en the divisor d is negative, i.e. it returns a negative remainder. I would prefer the remainder always be in [0, abs(d)). For positive divisors it seems mathematically sane. In fact I would prefer that it doesn't work at all for negative divisors. Depends what you&#x

[sage-devel] Re: New implementation of fraction fields

2007-05-27 Thread David Harvey
rised" denominator (bc)(be)? Is this still true even if b is quite a large object compared to a, c, d, e? And I assume if you have a fraction a/b, where the system has remembered some factorisation information about b, then if you compute 1/(a/b) it throws that information away? david On May 27

[sage-devel] Re: New implementation of fraction fields

2007-05-27 Thread David Harvey
he Factorization class already supports arithmetic, I don't know.) Then you would just write K = FractionField(S) Would it even be necessary to write special code in the fraction field class if it was done this way? (Hmmm thinking aloud in public here) David --~--~---

[sage-devel] Re: New implementation of fraction fields

2007-05-28 Thread David Harvey
t; rather than "cacheing" :-)) Qualification: obviously, if this ever gets integrated with the FractionField constructor, it should be only *optional*... I would expect there would be many applications where the caching would actually slow things down. What do you think about this?

[sage-devel] Re: New implementation of fraction fields

2007-05-28 Thread David Harvey
7; > which > when true returns an instance of FractionField_cache instead of > FractionField_generic. I think having a flag like that sounds very reasonable. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com

[sage-devel] NSF white paper draft - call for comments

2007-05-28 Thread David Joyner
ents would be greatly appreciated. Please be as critical as you like. - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit thi

[sage-devel] Re: Crypto package additions?

2007-05-28 Thread David Harvey
graphy, this would be a valuable > contribution. I second this. Would be great to have a fast implementation. In particular there are supposed to be very fast algorithms for genus 2, and perhaps 3 too. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, se

[sage-devel] Re: GAP interface: complicated objects

2007-05-28 Thread David Joyner
To create a fp group you have to define relations on the generators of a free group. To define the generators, you have to have a notation for the group. Why not have the _init_ method of the class define a "(free) base group", "generators (of the free gp)", "relations"? Something roughly (this is

[sage-devel] Re: NSF white paper draft - call for comments

2007-05-28 Thread David Joyner
On 5/28/07, Emil Volcheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, David. > > I applaud your quick work. I've forwarded your message to the SIGSAM > Officers list as well as to our white paper committee. > > I'll get back to you with comments on your draft w

[sage-devel] Re: Crypto package additions?

2007-05-29 Thread David Kohel
es of ciphers and hashes. Many of the latter algorithms, and fast algorithms for RSA, ElGamal, and ECC have implementations in standard libraries, but as noted, scaled down "weak" versions would be useful for testing or demonstrating attacks. --David On May 29, 10:08 am, David Harvey &l

[sage-devel] Re: NSF white paper draft - call for comments

2007-05-29 Thread David Harvey
ficult to reach a reliable conclusion about how > the detailed implementation of this algorithm will actually behave in > particular circumstances." Wow. I can't believe they actually said that. What incredible arrogance. I think this in itself demonstrate

[sage-devel] Re: NSF white paper draft - call for comments

2007-05-29 Thread David Joyner
Thank you all for your great comments. I'm working on a new draft now. You all have provided very useful suggestions. On 5/29/07, Mark van Hoeij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, William, > > Thanks for getting started with this whitepaper project. I think that > what

[sage-devel] Re: GPL plotting/drawing options

2007-05-30 Thread David Joyner
William Stein wrote: > On 5/29/07, Jason Grout <> wrote: >> I noticed that the topic of plots in sage has come up recently in >> mailing lists. Two options that I've used that I didn't see mentioned >> anywhere are listed below. These don't have python bindings, but may be >> interesting to cons

[sage-devel] Re: GPL plotting/drawing options

2007-05-30 Thread David Roe
ive after all. That said, it's well worth investigating > asymptote further, especially given that it is GPL'd. > > William Another reason to add asymptote is to be able to nicely print things like commutative diagrams. I'm not saying

[sage-devel] Re: NIKE SHOES-welcome to http://www.nikesn.com/.

2007-05-31 Thread David Joyner
Reported, banned, and deleted. On 5/31/07, DAVID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > welcome to http://www.nikesn.com/. > Products: Nike shoes > We are specialized in Nike shoes manufacturing,such as Jordans1-21, > Shox Series,Air Max Series,Air Force one,Dunk,Rift and so on.

[sage-devel] Re: Ergonomic Mobile Computing

2007-06-01 Thread David Joyner
deleted, banned, reported. On 6/1/07, green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Despite having worked with a laptop day in day out, I only landed up > with aching wrists, strained neck and back; with my work still > pending. I could quote several reasons for it - my laptop processor > runs too hot, m

[sage-devel] Re: Hiding doctests from documentation.

2007-06-02 Thread David Harvey
AGE matures I hope the doctest coverage gets *much* more systematic and complete, especially with regard to border cases, and as you point out, we might not always want this cluttering the examples section. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send ema

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Thanks for Sage, and a question/suggestion...

2007-06-03 Thread David Joyner
I'm not sure that exceptly the intended input and output would be. Does one want symbolic computations of group elements? Manipulation of root data? (LiE does some fo that: http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~maavl/LiE/. BTW, I wrote Marc van Leeuwen some time ago and asked if it was GPL'd. He didn

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.6

2007-06-03 Thread David Harvey
On sage.math, when I run the default install of sage, I get [ ... ] : /home/was/s/local/lib/python2.5/site- packages/sage/libs/ntl/ntl.so: undefined symbol: ZZX_square_free_decomposition david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Thanks for Sage, and a question/suggestion...

2007-06-03 Thread David Joyner
e (a la Vogan) for > tempered reps with real infinitesimal character, and maybe use the > Blattner formula for other K-types. In order to deal with > nonconnected maximal compact subgroups, some new data types might be > necessary - I'm not an expert in this. The package should reco

[sage-devel] ode's and sage - vfgen

2007-06-03 Thread David Joyner
FYI (forwarded from the SciPy list) + Dear SciPy users: I would like to let the users of the SciPy ODE solvers know about a tool that I have developed called VFGEN. VFGEN is a program that takes a specification of a vector field (in other words, a sy

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Thanks for Sage, and a question/suggestion...

2007-06-03 Thread David Joyner
are concerned, SAGE has GAP wrappers for the finite classical groups. I wonder if analogous GAP wrappers for the corresponding Lie algebras would be useful for your project. > > I'll keep on considering these things over the summer. > > - Marty > > On Jun 3, 10:54 am, &quo

[sage-devel] plot+wiki questions

2007-06-05 Thread David Joyner
point to the wiki on sage.math. If there is no objection, i will fix them by replacing sage.math with sagemath.org. - David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL

[sage-devel] symbolic variables

2007-06-07 Thread David Kohel
he radical change introduced with the new features for symbolic algebra (I think for version 2.4). The design has in mind an undergraduate calculus audience. There was little comment on this subject, but after using it a bit and seeing some of the consequences, I would like to reopen this discussion

[sage-devel] Re: symbolic variables

2007-06-07 Thread David Kohel
ad to be corrected that no funny business with the language is going on. I argued against R and Z being predefined at the reals and integers, and on the same basis would do so for symbolic variables. The x(x-1) typo is a good pitfall to be aware of. --

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in next_prime

2007-06-07 Thread David Joyner
Michel wrote: > It has often bothered me that there is a big difference in > performance between > next_prime(...) and > (...).next_prime() > > I.e. try (...)=2^4096. > > Looking at the source code I see that the first gives (by default) a > provable > result, whereas the second gives a probab

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in next_prime

2007-06-07 Thread David Harvey
On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Michel wrote: > And what should the default be? I would vote for probable primes > since looking for provable primes is unbearably slow. Agree. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in next_prime

2007-06-07 Thread David Joyner
and next_prime(2^4096,method = "default") have the same behaviour but next_prime(2^4096,method = "other") has the other one. Since it doesn't matter to me, I'd ask William what he wants for the default, or wait until more people vote. > > Michel > > &

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in next_prime

2007-06-07 Thread David Harvey
On Jun 7, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2007, at 9:03 AM, David Harvey wrote: > >> On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Michel wrote: >> >>> And what should the default be? I would vote for probable primes >>> since looking for provable

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in next_prime

2007-06-07 Thread David Harvey
On Jun 7, 2007, at 2:19 PM, William Stein wrote: > On 6/7/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I agree too, though I think is_prime should remain provably correct. >> >> I disagree. I think is_prime should have the same option available, >> and

[sage-devel] Re: Dynamical systems support

2007-06-08 Thread David Joyner
Hamptonio wrote: > Hi, > > I was just at the SIAM dynamical systems meeting in Snowbird, and it > got me curious about how support for dynamical systems could be put > into sage. Unfortunately, the research I was presenting was done Maxima already has some material on dynamical systems http://f

[sage-devel] Re: SD 4 t-shirt

2007-06-11 Thread David Joyner
Why not just use what Martin has for the front, but with "www.sagemath.org" below it? That;s B+W. On 6/12/07, Craig Citro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > That's pretty neat. It would be better if http://www.sagemath.org > > > appeared somewhere on the shirt. > > > > +1 to this shirt! Perh

[sage-devel] Sage Enhancement Proposal: Number Fields

2007-06-12 Thread David Roe
ts/numbertheory/number_fields David Roe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-d

[sage-devel] Re: new t-shirt thread (pun intended!)

2007-06-12 Thread David Joyner
On 6/12/07, Craig Citro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > > so here are three ideas for the sd4 shirt, called flier.pdf, > flier_plain.pdf, and flier2.pdf in: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/citro/sd4_shirt/ > > They're all basic variations on the sagemath.org flier, with the key >

[sage-devel] Re: Leon spkg

2007-06-13 Thread David Joyner
Not much help, but it installs for me as well (on an intel macbook). Good job! +++ On 6/13/07, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would anyone like to try to install > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/leon-0.1.spkg > > ? > > It builds and i

[sage-devel] Re: NTL python wrapper rewrite

2007-06-15 Thread David Harvey
of the ntl wrapper, one thing I'd love you to keep in mind is NTL's global modulus business. I've never been convinced that this was fixed properly in SAGE. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.co

[sage-devel] Re: factorization database

2007-06-16 Thread David Joyner
As a minor tangential remark, there is now a tutorial for creating sqlite databases at http://www.sagemath.org:9001/sqlite-tutorial + On 6/16/07, Jonathan Bober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is a amusing, but real, snippet from a running sage ses

[sage-devel] Re: Top Selling Magazines Of The World

2007-06-16 Thread David Joyner
reported+deleted (both emails), and banned On 6/16/07, adeel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Top Selling Magazines Of The World > For Pet & Animal: > http://www.moreinfo247.com/9639913/Department.vstore? > id=35">https://www.sfimg.com/Images/Banners/banner205.gif"; > border="0"/ > > For Computer

[sage-devel] make flags for scipy?

2007-06-17 Thread David Joyner
s set-up and comment. Any thoughts on this idea? - David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.

[sage-devel] sage_c_lib-2.6.p1.spkg

2007-06-18 Thread David Harvey
doesn't belong there. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel UR

[sage-devel] SD4 photos

2007-06-19 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Some SD4 photos at posted at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/sd4photos/images.html, or at least they will be in 5 minutes or so. - David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this

[sage-devel] Re: SD4 photos

2007-06-19 Thread David Joyner
Sorry about that! Should be fixed in a few minutes. On 6/19/07, Michael Abshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Joyner wrote: > > > > Hi: > > Some SD4 photos at posted at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/sd4photos/images.html, > > o

[sage-devel] Re: FIRST TIME IN INDIA

2007-06-19 Thread David Joyner
deleted, reported, and banned. Incidently, there is an option "Messages from new members are moderated" which I can set. This means that new members might have a delay to their posting. Any thoughts? It would eliminate spam I think. On 6/19/07, jobs 6677 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > >

[sage-devel] Re: FIRST TIME IN INDIA

2007-06-19 Thread David Joyner
Done (for all three groups). On 6/19/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/19/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > deleted, reported, and banned. > > > > Incidently, there is an option "Messages from new members are

[sage-devel] Re: Subject : THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR!

2007-06-19 Thread David Joyner
Deleted, banned, reported. This person joined a week ago or so, therefore presumably does not qualify as "recently joined" and hence moderated. The next level is probably to require all people joining the list to get an invitation. There are 2 options: (1) must be invited by the owner, (2) must b

[sage-devel] Re: Subject : THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR!

2007-06-20 Thread David Joyner
+ On 6/20/07, kaimmello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There isn't an option that the first (only the first) post or comment > has to be approved by a moderator? > There is for example in Wordpress and has saved me from a lot of spam > on my blog! > Regards >

[sage-devel] Re: memory allocation error (?)

2007-06-21 Thread David Harvey
what happens if a parent (say vectors over some ring) has more than one way of representing elements. Is Vector.__mul__ responsible for the conversion in this case, or is it the vector/ matrix multiply operation? david On Jun 21, 2007, at 3

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE notebook 2

2007-06-21 Thread David Joyner
How does one register to use it? Or does our sage.math login and password work? On 6/21/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I spent the last 3 days synthesizing the ideas from the workshop and writing > a lot of code and have put together the first version of the "SAGE Note

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE notebook 2

2007-06-21 Thread David Joyner
illiam Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/21/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How does one register to use it? Or does our sage.math login > > and password work? > > > > It's simple -- like most online sites. Just click o

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE notebook 2

2007-06-21 Thread David Harvey
n Firefox 2.0.0.4 on my G4 Powerbook, and I can't > create a new worksheet. Every time I hit the button to create a new > worksheet, I get brought right back to the login page. In fact, it > seems to do exactly that for every button I hit. That happened to me the first time I hit &quo

[sage-devel] Re: a SD4 video

2007-06-22 Thread David Joyner
I wish it could be resized without pixelization to get more detail on the screen. Still audio is excellent and it's better than audio only. === On 6/22/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you guys think of this video: > > http://sage.math.washington.e

[sage-devel] rubik's cube images

2007-06-23 Thread David Joyner
tch since it is currently not implemented as a CubeGroup module method. Maybe by late romorrow. I was hoping to use Tachyon but I couldn't find some features I needed so I didn't get far with it. - David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send e

[sage-devel] Re: Finite Field Isomorphisms

2007-06-26 Thread David Harvey
On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have given some thought to finite extension field isomorphisms > and finite > extension field embeddings. Before you get too deeply into this, you should also discuss this with David Roe (and possibl

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