[sage-devel] Re: SAGE and inplace operators

2007-09-05 Thread David Harvey
on e.g. floats and strings in the python source, and they never use this trick. I would feel much more comfortable if there was some "mainstream" precedent for this. Scary: when I googled "python inplace operators" to try to find a precedent, the sixth link was a talk I gav

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE and inplace operators

2007-09-05 Thread David Harvey
you can avoid refcounting. For example maybe you're doing a row operation in a generic matrix class, or something like that. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this g

[sage-devel] Re: Algebraic Number Theory Timings : Part 1 - Take 2

2007-09-06 Thread David Harvey
roups ever computed." http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/theses/sutherland-phd.pdf 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 thi

[sage-devel] cannot build 2.8.4 on sage.math

2007-09-08 Thread David Harvey
ne have *any* idea at all what the hell is going on? 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://gro

[sage-devel] Re: cannot build 2.8.4 on sage.math

2007-09-08 Thread David Harvey
On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > > Hi David, > > I think this may be something in your ambient environment which > scons handles > differently than autoconf and friends. Is "ambient environment" a technical unix term? Is that the same as my

[sage-devel] Re: cannot build 2.8.4 on sage.math

2007-09-08 Thread David Harvey
> Has anyone else actually built sage-2.8.4 from scratch on sage.math? >> > > I believe William did do, I didn't try in person. Sorry I should rephrase that question: has anyone else actually built 2.8.4 and succesfully *run* it on sage.

[sage-devel] Re: cannot build 2.8.4 on sage.math

2007-09-08 Thread David Harvey
I was really starting to go nuts. 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/gro

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-10 Thread David Harvey
On Sep 10, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > > Hi, > > David Harvey raised a speed question on > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/628 > It's a legitimate concern, but as far as I can tell, it's a completely > orthogonal issue to that specific

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread David Harvey
sues. What I'm more worried about is cython compatibility, especially if python internals have changed a lot. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread David Harvey
2.x code. But who knows I guess we'll find out in the next few years. 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 op

[sage-devel] Re: gmp, mpfr, ecm

2007-09-12 Thread David Harvey
to figure out what to change. I would recommend that whoever works on getting 4.2.2 up and running first disables the gcd patch (that's commenting out one line in the install script), and once 4.2.2 is working on all platforms, then w

[sage-devel] Re: gmp, mpfr, ecm

2007-09-12 Thread David Harvey
re's a whole family of gcd algorithms with that complexity, see for example http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/damien.stehle/BINARY.html The old code (i.e. in GMP 4.2.1 and 4.2.2) has complexity O(n^2). david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group,

[sage-devel] Re: Enumeration of totally real fields, continued

2007-09-12 Thread David Harvey
lared using > cdef incr(self) > instead of > def incr(self). > in tr_data.spyx. But if I do this, how do I then access incr in > totallyreal.py? You mean significant *less* overhead? You can't access a cdef method directly from python. It can only be accessed fr

[sage-devel] Re: calculus in SAGE/SymPy

2007-09-12 Thread David Kohel
uld be valid but not x = var('x'); sqrt(x). This would provide some mathematical rigor without killing usability. --David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[sage-devel] Re: Sage BugSquash Day 3

2007-09-13 Thread David Harvey
x27;t we try to get a photo of one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_bug 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, vis

[sage-devel] Re: Putting FLINT in SAGE

2007-09-15 Thread David Harvey
g fmpz_poly will kill the machine for certain kinds of sparse polynomials. For example if you create the polynomial x^100 + 2^100, then NTL is perfectly fine with that, but fmpz_poly will try to allocate a million coefficients with a million bits each. Boom. david --~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus

2007-09-17 Thread David Joyner
On 9/17/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/17/07, Peter G. Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have recently discovered SAGE, which I think is really quite amazing. > > > > I am contemplating introducing the students in our honors calculus course > > here at Dartmouth to SAGE.

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus

2007-09-18 Thread David Joyner
On 9/17/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/17/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It sounds from what you write though, that it is best to just stick > > > with the "upload" / "download" terminology, since it is *very* clear > > > in which direction the file goes

[sage-devel] Re: number fields

2007-09-18 Thread David Harvey
c are "the same"? 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-

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus

2007-09-18 Thread David Harvey
On Sep 17, 2007, at 11:55 PM, William Stein wrote: > And, if anybody out there thinks adding the above to the preparser > would make you positively cringe in disgust, please speak up! > (It doesn't mean we won't add it anyways...) Positively cringe in

[sage-devel] Re: number fields

2007-09-19 Thread David Roe
the positive real roots in each case), it cannot be assumed that this will hold in the particular algebraically closed field, since the roots are only defined algebraically." ( http://www.msri.org/about/computing/docs/magma/html/text704.htm) David --~--~-~--~~~---

[sage-devel] Re: numerical optimization in sage

2007-09-19 Thread David Joyner
I have no ideas, but would like to mention the OS constraint solver eclipse http://eclipse.crosscoreop.com/ probably belongs to the same family of programs. This was mentioned at the GAP conference but I've forgotten why now. (Maybe Marc Roeder used it?) On 9/19/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECT

[sage-devel] Re: LLL

2007-09-21 Thread David Kohel
and can be found on his web page: http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/damien.stehle/english.html It might take some art to decide on optimal parameters, but linking it into SAGE should provide the same asymptotic performance as in Magma. --David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To po

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: sage-2.8.5

2007-09-21 Thread David Harvey
l -verbose, then it gets through the constructions guide with no problems, in about 30 seconds! 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 opti

[sage-devel] Re: documentation changes

2007-09-21 Thread David Joyner
I think you are talking about the effect of your new docstrings on the reference manual? At this point, only William can do that, I believe. + On 9/21/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I changed some of the documentation in graphs/graph.py (formatted it > using Latex

[sage-devel] Re: documentation changes

2007-09-21 Thread David Joyner
On 9/21/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/21/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I changed some of the documentation in graphs/graph.py (formatted it > > using Latex). How do I build a new manual to see my changes? > > cd SAGE_ROOT/devel/doc/ref > ./build_pdf > > Th

[sage-devel] Re: استمع للقران الكريم و انت تتصفح ..

2007-09-22 Thread David Joyner
I don't know how this post made it through the moderated new members filter. He joined on the 20th. Banned, reported, and deleted. On 9/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > السلام عليكم > اخواني واخواني هذه ملف مرفق لتشغيل القراÙ

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] sage-2.8.5

2007-09-22 Thread David Harvey
.4.10, intel core duo. What happens if you do sage -testall -verbose ? 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, vis

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] sage-2.8.5

2007-09-22 Thread David Harvey
On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:47 AM, John Cremona wrote: > > Strange: after adding -verbose, it has got way past the point where > it had previously stuck (but has not finished the testall yet). Yes this is what happened to me too. I have no idea what to make of thi

[sage-devel] Re: quantifier elimination

2007-09-22 Thread David Joyner
If there is any interest, I can ask Chris Brown, who I know fairly well. I think I asked him about licenses once. I vaguely remember him saying all his stuff is GPL-compatible (or even public domain) but saclib is separate. On 9/22/07, Jason Grout

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Harvey
the Sage GMP package to 4.2.2 right now. > > Thoughts? I wonder whether the GMP folks would consider releasing under both LGPL v2 and v3. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from th

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
On 9/23/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Michael Abshoff pointed out to me that GMP 4.2.2 has been released! > Very exciting. The > release notes list exactly one new feature: > > From http://gmplib.org/gmp4.2.html > > New features of GMP 4.2.2 > * License is now LGPL

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
On 9/23/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/23/07, Jason Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some thoughts: > > > > 1. I've been doing some performance comparisons on GMP 4.2.2 with the > > patches that Sage uses, and I haven't seen any remarkable differences > > between 4.2.2

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
On 9/23/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/23/07, Jason Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some thoughts: > > > > 1. I've been doing some performance comparisons on GMP 4.2.2 with the > > patches that Sage uses, and I haven't seen any remarkable differences > > between 4.2.2

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
On 9/23/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:46, William Stein wrote: > > However, in the COPYING file for Sage itself, I wrote: "All original > > SAGE code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public > > License *Version 2*." > > > > Just

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
r. > > > > See:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html > > Do I smell something? > > > > > > > > > Just out of curiosity, would anybody be angry if I were to remove the > > > words "*Version 2*" from the above sentence in the

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Harvey
suspect GMP is likely to improve a lot in the next few years. 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 ht

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Harvey
Could you please elaborate on this a bit? What is it about the GPL that you don't like? If you were to contribute code to SAGE, what would be your ideal license? david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups

[sage-devel] Re: Proposed minor enhancement: elliptic curve transformations

2007-09-23 Thread David Kohel
construction of minimal models. If a proper class of isogenies is defined, then adding the parent and coercions can be added easily. --David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[sage-devel] Re: Proposed minor enhancement: elliptic curve transformations

2007-09-24 Thread David Roe
me of the infrastructure that you're trying to implement is exactly what I was working on before I got too busy this summer to work on Sage. I have some time to work on Sage this week. Let me know when you're free and perhaps you, David and I can work on it together, though this might

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-24 Thread David Joyner
On 9/24/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason Martin wrote: > > My vote would be to change the sage license to "GPLv2 or later" and > > try to get the Singular developers to do likewise. Mainly because > > that is less work. > > > > Does changing Sage to "v2 or later" require Sage t

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-24 Thread David Harvey
y handling in such cases. I've heard claims that this could double the multiplication speed on some architectures, and that wouldn't surprise me at all. david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com T

[sage-devel] NTL ZZ_pEX, etc

2007-09-24 Thread David Roe
fferent at all)? Does ZZ_pE take care of the preconditioning for me? 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 gro

[sage-devel] Re: Proposed minor enhancement: elliptic curve transformations

2007-09-25 Thread David Kohel
pper triangular) matrix. You could cc me in relevant messages to make sure that I response -- we have a one-week teaching break, but need to pack up my office this week. --David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups

[sage-devel] Re: GPL "version 2 or later" permission request

2007-09-25 Thread David Harvey
, and I > suspect > it wouldn't hold up in court on those grounds. Well, as long as "is similar in spirit" is interpreted by a court in the way we all would hope, then that's all good. I hope we can leave all this licensing stuff behind soon and get on

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE conventions for methods

2007-09-27 Thread David Joyner
Thank you for the summary. GAP also has conventions, though I don't know how official they are. Typically a boolean response starts with "Is" (as is "IsAbelainGroup") and an in-place modification has the work "Mutable" in the command name somewhere. On 9/27/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

[sage-devel] Re: Compilation problems with SAGE-2.8.5.1 released

2007-09-27 Thread David Harvey
code is wanted for the inline than for the library version, then __GMP_FORCE_foo arranges the inline to be suppressed, eg. mpz_abs. */ So maybe those two functions are getting defined twice because some choice about inlining is being screwed up. david --~--~-~--~~--

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread David Joyner
Agreed. Even linking the Spanish version is a good idea I think. On 9/28/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William wrote; > > > Here's a Google Translated version to English, which is enough > > to understand most of the article: > > This is a very good article. Since he seems to be

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread David Joyner
On 9/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This is a very good article. Since he seems to be a fan of SAGE, I > >> wonder if he would be willing to provide an English version of this paper > >> so that it could be placed on the SAGE website? > > > Actually, when I asked him f

[sage-devel] Re: quantifier elimination

2007-09-28 Thread David Joyner
/22/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Joyner wrote: > > If there is any interest, I can ask Chris Brown, who I know fairly > > well. I think I asked him about licenses once. I vaguely remember him saying > > all his stuff is GPL-compatible (or even pub

[sage-devel] Polynomials and absprec

2007-10-02 Thread David Harvey
The __init__ function in class Polynomial_generic_dense (in sage/ rings/polynomial/polynomial_element.pyx) is unnecessarily ugly because of the absprec parameter showing up everywhere. This was introduced I think by David Roe to deal with polynomials over p-adic rings. But something smells

[sage-devel] fractional ideals in number fields

2007-10-03 Thread David Harvey
to write special cases for Q. I think it's a bad idea to use the name "ideal" for the method that gives an ideal of the ring of integers. I think we should give this a different name. Any thoughts? david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this gr

[sage-devel] Re: slow subsets

2007-10-03 Thread David Joyner
On 10/3/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have a clue why constructing subsets might be so slow? > > $ sage > -- > | SAGE Version 2.8.5.1, Release Date: 2007-09-26 | > | Type notebook()

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Contributing to SAGE

2007-10-05 Thread David Joyner
(1) One "very easy" project which would be of significant benefit is the following: In maxima, you can save a gnuplot to a file using a command line option. This (and some extra programming which William says is "easy") enables one to view 3d graphics in the notebook. However, there is one big pro

[sage-devel] Re: Polynomial powering

2007-10-07 Thread David Harvey
could do too). SAGE is just using NTL for this, so it's doing whatever NTL is doing. > I think mpz's have some special code for multiplications with > long strings of zeroes in the representation. I don't think this is true. The GMP documentation says explicitly to

[sage-devel] random seeds

2007-10-08 Thread David Harvey
at startup. 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 URLs: http

[sage-devel] Re: random seeds

2007-10-08 Thread David Harvey
sanely fast, even if the quality isn't super-high; and then people should be able to select higher- quality random number generators (at the expense of speed) if they like. david On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:33 PM, cwitty wrote: > > On Oct 8, 10:10 am, "William Stein" <[EMAI

[sage-devel] __call__

2007-10-08 Thread David Roe
I'm working on bringing __call__ into the coercion framework. Unlike coerce, we need to worry about additional arguments besides just the object x to be cast into the parent (I've included the list of all parent __call__ methods currently defined at the bottom of this e-mail). Define call_map_fro

[sage-devel] Re: Unbelievably trivial

2007-10-10 Thread David Harvey
I filed a related ticket a few month ago: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/467 david On Oct 10, 2007, at 4:05 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 10/10/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Only 20% compared to base-10 strings? It seems like there sho

[sage-devel] Re: Introductory SAGE talk in Oslo

2007-10-11 Thread David Joyner
Excellent! Thanks. However, the pdf at http://folk.uio.no/georgmu/Writings/SAGE-Oslo/ has some black pages. Do you know why this is? +++ On 10/11/07, Georg Muntingh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tied up the loose ends, and now you can find the PDF, ODP and

[sage-devel] Re: is_FractionField(QQ)

2007-10-12 Thread David Harvey
it really means "is_implemented_as_a_fraction_field". 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/g

[sage-devel] Re: Third party packages

2007-10-12 Thread David Joyner
Thanks for thinking about this. Other than licensing issues, which may or may not be relevant to your question, one possibility to help with upgrades is to create a new subdirectory (say examples/third-party, or something) which is not touched by the upgrade process, and then just reload overwri

[sage-devel] Re: Braid Goups / Coxeter Groups / Root Systems / ...

2007-10-13 Thread David Joyner
Shpectorov and H. Voelklein, and HAP, which I think has some briad-related stuff but I can't find it right now. > > GAP3 had support for braid groups provided by the "share package" > CHEVIE. Unfortunately, when the change to GAP4 was made, this was > never ported over.

[sage-devel] Re: my plenary ams talk

2007-10-13 Thread David Joyner
On 10/13/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is a link to my slides and demo for my ams plenary talk: > > http://sagemath.org/why/alb/ Looks like it will be a great talk. Wish I could make it! > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-14 Thread David Roe
All tests pass on my machine as well. David On 10/14/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/14/07, mabshoff > On Oct 14, 3:56 pm, "William Stein" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > &g

[sage-devel] Re: Small Groups Database

2007-10-14 Thread David Joyner
It is already (somewhat) wrapped and is included in gap_packages*.spkg. http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/ref/module-sage.rings.real-field.html#l2h-3143 There is also a IsomorphismTypeInfoFiniteSimpleGroup http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/htm/ref/CHAP037.htm#SSEC015.11 and StructureDescription

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-14 Thread David Joyner
On 10/14/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have released sage-2.8.7.rc1 here: > >http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/ > > In particular, this link: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sage-2.8.7.rc1.tar > > Hopefully this will work with no doctest failures o

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-15 Thread David Joyner
On 10/15/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've posted rc2, which resolved a few remaining > issues (a major bug in Cython and issues I had > with two of the patches that fixed things): > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sage-2.8.7.rc2.tar > > Also, it would be great if

[sage-devel] special function patch

2007-10-15 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I fixed some bugs in the special functions module. The patch is linked to in the trac ticket http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/906 and passes sage -t. (This patch was originally created in Oct 2006 but never applied.) - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7

2007-10-16 Thread David Joyner
This version does not upgrade or install on suse 9.1 amd64. I would not make it a priority since these machines are due to be upgraded, but thought I'd let you know. However, it does not install on suse 10.2 either! In case this helps: sage: An error occurred while installing flint-0.2.p4 Plea

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7

2007-10-16 Thread David Joyner
On 10/16/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 16, 4:26 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi David, > > > This version does not upgrade or install on suse 9.1 amd64. > > As far as I can tell Suse 9.1 AMD64 s

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7

2007-10-16 Thread David Joyner
On 10/16/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 16, 5:46 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/16/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Oct 16, 4:26 pm, "

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7

2007-10-16 Thread David Joyner
On 10/16/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 16, 6:09 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/16/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi David, > > > > > > gcc blows up, t

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: ode_solver

2007-10-16 Thread David Roe
Is rdef in sage 2.8.7? David On 10/16/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 2007, at 1:40 AM, Joshua Kantor wrote: > > > > > Good to see that you got things sped up. > > > > The factor of 30 or so slowdown is consistent with my

[sage-devel] Re: Enhancing the SymbolicEquation class

2007-10-17 Thread David Harvey
ad. >>> It's clever though (which is not good). >> >> I agree with that sentiment. On the other hand, I think >> >> sage: c = b.change_right(b.right().expand()) >> >> is a bit cumbersome. >> > > I totally agree. What is better? How a

[sage-devel] factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Harvey
Umm.. sage: R. = QQ[] sage: f = x^3 - 2 sage: f.factor_padic(2) --- Traceback (most recent call last) /Users/david/sage-2.8.4/ in () /Users/david/sage-2.8.4/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Roe
The reason is that that doctest has sage.: David On 10/18/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Umm.. > > sage: R. = QQ[] > sage: f = x^3 - 2 > sage: f.factor_padic(2) >

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Roe
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. David On 10/18/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Arrggghhh. When you do code inspection via factor_padic?, the period > apparently gets filtered out. That's not very helpful somehow. > david > On Oct 18, 200

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Harvey
Arrggghhh. When you do code inspection via factor_padic?, the period apparently gets filtered out. That's not very helpful somehow. david On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:37 AM, David Roe wrote: > The reason is that that doctest has sage.: > David > > On 10/18/07, David Harvey

[sage-devel] Re: Sieve of Eratosthenes

2007-10-19 Thread David Roe
Awesome. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Timothy (and William for writing it). David On 10/19/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > William made a worksheet for a class he taught in the summer that > demonstrates the sie

[sage-devel] Sieve of Eratosthenes

2007-10-19 Thread David Roe
ome of the entries in different colors? How does show(M) turn M into a graphics object? If people have ideas for another approach, that would be welcome as well. We've done a demo so far in GP and one in Mathematica. I want to get Sage in the pict

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-forum] sage-2.8.8

2007-10-22 Thread David Joyner
On 10/21/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I know what's going on. > > If you install the Gap optional packages, then reset the > workspace you get the behavior I see. If you don't install > the optional packages you don't. Thus one of the packages > changes the print beha

[sage-devel] Re: problem with showing plots from command line

2007-10-23 Thread David Joyner
On 10/23/07, Jonathan Bober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks. > > I tried to send the following email a few hours ago (but I put the email > address in wrong) and I don't feel like rewriting it all. So I should > add to it now that I have upgraded sage (so I am running 2.8.8.1) and > the er

[sage-devel] matrix multiply with huge entries

2007-10-23 Thread David Harvey
y doing 8*8*8 multiplies. 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-dev

[sage-devel] Re: matrix multiply with huge entries

2007-10-23 Thread David Harvey
ltiplies are way below the strassen cutoff. So basically it would end up looking like doing *integer* multiplication with a multi-modular algorithm, which isn't such a good idea :-) david --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sag

[sage-devel] Re: matrix multiply with huge entries

2007-10-23 Thread David Harvey
fined (__GMP_EXTERN_INLINE) || defined (__GMP_FORCE_mpz_size) #if ! defined (__GMP_FORCE_mpz_size) __GMP_EXTERN_INLINE #endif size_t mpz_size (mpz_srcptr __gmp_z) __GMP_NOTHROW { return __GMP_ABS (__gmp_z->_mp_size); } #endif It looks like they're trying pretty hard to make it inline. david --~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: matrix multiply with huge entries

2007-10-23 Thread David Harvey
On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:47 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 10/23/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> For huge Z, I wonder if it's still trying to do multi-modular? That >>> would probably be bad. I'm also not sure how much of the di

[sage-devel] Re: Bug in permgroup.py ?

2007-10-24 Thread David Joyner
Thank you for reporting this bug. This is now http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/981 I'll try to work on it later today. On 10/24/07, Biel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I think that there is a bug in the module permgroup.py, at line 1226, > the method conjugacy_classes_subgroups

[sage-devel] Re: Bug in permgroup.py ?

2007-10-24 Thread David Joyner
I posted a link to a patch at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/981 On 10/24/07, Biel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I think that there is a bug in the module permgroup.py, at line 1226, > the method conjugacy_classes_subgroups calls PermutationGroupElement; > I think it should b

[sage-devel] trac ticket #1000?

2007-10-25 Thread David Harvey
Does the lucky bug reporter get a prize? 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

[sage-devel] Re: sloccount of sage-2.8.9.rc1

2007-10-25 Thread David Joyner
On 10/25/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/25/07, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are some real surprises on that list. MPFR has many more lines > > of code than I thought, Pari many fewer lines of code. It's amazing > > what it achieves with such a small code b

[sage-devel] polynomials and NTL

2007-10-26 Thread David Harvey
sage: N = 5^1000 sage: R = Integers(N) sage: S. = PolynomialRing(R) sage: v = R(37) sage: f = S([v]) Am I correct in saying that with the current codebase, the last line in the above code is converting v to a ZZ_pX via a decimal string? david

[sage-devel] Re: polynomials and NTL

2007-10-26 Thread David Roe
Sigh. I also made that change (but my padics code is probably not ready to merge). I'll just merge my code with yours. David On 10/26/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/26/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sage: N = 5^1000 &g

[sage-devel] Re: non-commutative polynomial rings

2007-10-27 Thread David Kohel
ic of the generic function should be reported as a bug. --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

[sage-devel] Re: numerically solve an equation

2007-10-28 Thread David Joyner
On 10/26/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to numerically solve a system of equations. Currently I have: > > sage: var('x y p q') > sage: eq1 = p+q==9 > sage: eq2 = q*y+p*x==-6 > sage: eq3 = q*y^2+p*x^2==24 > sage: solve([eq1,eq2,eq3,p==1],p,q,x,y) > [[p == 3, q == 6, x ==

[sage-devel] Re: implemented here

2007-10-28 Thread David Joyner
On 10/28/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am working on a talk on SAGE for the RHUL PhD seminar and thus I wondered > what functionality SAGE implements that was not implemented before in the > open-source world. By 'implement' I do not mean wrapping some libr

[sage-devel] Re: Mike Hansens talk *today* introducing Sae and symmetric functions, etc.

2007-11-01 Thread David Joyner
Many thanks William and Mike for recording and uploading these! On 11/1/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > This is the video from Mike Hansen's talk *today* introducing Sage and > symmetric functions, etc., during the Univ of Washington combinatorics > seminar: > > http:

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread David Joyner
On 11/1/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have released 2.8.11.alpha0 at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.alpha0.tar > > It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to get some build > feedback on OSX 10.4, both PPC and Intel flavors, as well as 32 bit

[sage-devel] new optional gap_packages*

2007-11-04 Thread David Joyner
Hi: A new gap_packages* has been created. Details are at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1101 - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-devel] cimport order

2007-11-05 Thread David Roe
pp: In function 'PyObject* __pyx_tp_new_8morphism_Morphism_QQ_QpCR(PyTypeObject*, PyObject*, PyObject*)': sage/rings/padics/morphism.cpp:4301: error: 'struct __pyx_obj_4sage_10categories_8morphism_Morphism' has no member named '__pyx_base' error: command

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