[sage-devel] Re: Project

2008-04-21 Thread Robert Dodier
ants to work on it with me, I'd be glad to have the help. Robert Dodier Maxima developer --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Project

2008-04-22 Thread Robert Dodier
erest (SBCL, CMUCL) do not. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Sage, Maxima, Lisp

2008-04-23 Thread Robert Dodier
e compiled into the same image as Maxima and then Python could (I guess) be used as the user language for Maxima. I would be interested to see what that's like. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.co

[sage-devel] compiling Maxima by ECL

2008-04-26 Thread Robert Dodier
to try this also, maybe your luck is better. FWIW & HTH. Robert Dodier Maxima developer --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more

[sage-devel] Maxima + ECL status

2008-05-16 Thread Robert Dodier
t it looks like it is going to be a long haul, and I'm not sure I want to do it by myself. Of course, no one is obligated to help. So: is anyone working on Maxima + ECL ? Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel

[sage-devel] Re: Maxima + ECL status

2008-05-17 Thread Robert Dodier
//maxima.sourceforge.net/wiki Thanks for your interest, & let us know how it turns out. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[sage-devel] progress on Maxima + ECL

2008-05-22 Thread Robert Dodier
, that would be very helpful. If someone can fix the compilation problems, that would be even better. Please direct followups to the ECL mailing list. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubsc

[sage-devel] Re: progress on Maxima + ECL

2008-05-23 Thread Robert Dodier
mabshoff wrote: > Out of curiosity: Did you take today's CVS since the anon ecl CVS > trees were corrupted until about two, three hours ago? I am working with ECL built from anonymous CVS from around May 14. I haven't been able to update from CVS since then; apparently the anonymous CVS server w

[sage-devel] Re: Maxima license "GPL v.3 or later"?

2008-06-01 Thread Robert Dodier
If someone wants to pomote a legal theory under which relicensing is possible, I'd like to hear about it. But from what I can tell, a decision amongst the current developers isn't enough. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group,

[sage-devel] Re: Maxima license "GPL v.3 or later"?

2008-06-01 Thread Robert Dodier
t think that allows present-day contributors to change the license to v2+ or v3+ (i.e. to exclude certain versions). But since v3 is among "any version ever published" it seems like the use of Maxima in Sage is OK. Yes/no/maybe ? best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~---

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] [sage-devel] Re: Maxima license "GPL v.3 or later"?

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Dodier
c. About the others, I guess we will have to identify them and negotiate with each author. I've been meaning for a long time to do a license review sweep through all of the share stuff --- maybe now is as good a time as any. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] [sage-devel] Re: Maxima license "GPL v.3 or later"?

2008-06-03 Thread Robert Dodier
On 6/3/08, Jaime Villate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so we can continue to develop Maxima as his original author intended > to? I will point out that current developers are on much firmer ground if they consider what Bill Schelter did, as opposed to what he was thinking.

[sage-devel] presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-18 Thread Robert Dodier
it than Maxima! Sage is a great project and it was terrific to meet William Stein and everyone else. Many thanks to William for the invitation. I look forward to further collaboration. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send emai

[sage-devel] test suites, was: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-21 Thread Robert Dodier
asked for and received permission from him to release it under terms of GPL and it is now in Maxima CVS. Wester has test scripts for several programs; Maxima CVS only contains the Macsyma test scripts. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group,

[sage-devel] Re: working on Sage

2008-07-08 Thread Robert Dodier
's not enough. I would very much appreciate any help on it. Also part of the problem is that the assume system in Maxima is not very strong, and it has bugs. We could use some help on that too. I think I;ve made this appeal before --- I'm just trying to take advantage of the momentar

[sage-devel] Re: how to handle assumptions

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Dodier
when there are multiple solutions. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: how to handle assumptions

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Dodier
see any indication of the domain in which each result is applicable. Did I miss something? It appears that the ascii art display shows something different from the TeX display. Maybe they're equivalent, I can't tell. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: Gap closing or widening to Mathematica?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert Dodier
ex.html > I have seen this benchmark, it's outdated and i think totally wrong. Aside from being out of date, what's wrong with it? curiously Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To un

[sage-devel] units, was: Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-20 Thread Robert Dodier
ial revision in the 5.16 release which will appear next month. Anyway maybe this is some use or interest. Comments on the CVS version are much appreciated. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubs

[sage-devel] Re: units, was: Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Dodier
ch is OK --- something boring which just works right would be very useful. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more o

[sage-devel] Re: units, was: Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Dodier
han preventing unintended evaluation of units symbols. Undecided at this point. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more option

[sage-devel] Re: Why lim goes wrong

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Dodier
, x, 0); => log(2) (No questions asked.) We can probably thank Dan Gildea for this, as he has done a lot of extremely valuable bug-fixing work on Maxima. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.c

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: axiom

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Dodier
g an existing Lisp library for that purpose. I haven't looked into the details. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Things I miss from Maple in Sage

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Dodier
get more people using and (I hope) developing Maxima rather than reinventing its wheels. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECT

[sage-devel] Re: Things I miss from Maple in Sage

2008-08-22 Thread Robert Dodier
much less hackish, to just make them functions and stay entirely within Python? What's the benefit of parsing a string? Aside from the w00t-factor. Incidentally Maxima has mostly the same set of expression- mogrification operators, expressed as function calls. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: Things I miss from Maple in Sage

2008-08-25 Thread Robert Dodier
What does this prove? Maybe not much, except that in this case it's possible to do some useful expression hacking without writing new code for Sage. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To u

[sage-devel] Re: Manipulating diff. eqs. in Mathematica using pattern matching

2008-08-25 Thread Robert Dodier
; first_order_form (pbe, p, r); => ['diff(p[0],r,1) = p[1], 'diff(p[1],r,1) = (sinh(p[0])*k^2*r-2*p[1])/r] > It's just a short shot from here to providing the input in a form that > would be accepted by the gsl solver, or scipy. Yes. I believe a combination of symbo

[sage-devel] Re: Things I miss from Maple in Sage

2008-08-25 Thread Robert Dodier
Tim Lahey wrote: > I presume that Sage can't take a derivative with respect to a function > (Maple can't which is why this code is written this way). By the way, what do you mean by that? What is the operation that you would like to do, but fails? Thanks for the info

[sage-devel] Re: Things I miss from Maple in Sage

2008-08-25 Thread Robert Dodier
mailing list to see if anyone has worked with Lagrangian mechanics in Maxima. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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, visi

[sage-devel] Re: limit evaluation bug

2008-09-18 Thread Robert Dodier
axima interface doesn't distinguish infinity from inf, probably it should. Maybe it does already. If someone can post a bug report to the Maxima bug tracker for this problem, that would be great. HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group

[sage-devel] Re: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-02 Thread Robert Dodier
ople to use Sage, you might attempt to accomodate them, rather than immediately switching into the you're-a-moron mode. (3) The answer to the o.p.'s question isn't in the tutorial or reference manual. Yes, I looked. Did you? I didn't think so. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-02 Thread Robert Dodier
feature of how the Python > language works. Well, that would be an improvement. The need to declare variables is different from various other packages, not just Mathematica. Some explanation should go in the documentation for var itself as well. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~--

[sage-devel] Re: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-03 Thread Robert Dodier
uating it? (Isn't there an AST package or s.t.l.t. which could do that?) Then you could (I guess) detect undefined variables without causing side-effects from any part of the input. Just a guess -- I'm no expert on Python. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~-

[sage-devel] Re: yet another talk on Sage

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Dodier
. I think even for trivial documents, just as for trivial programs, it is a good idea to state the license terms. You never know what's going to happen to the stuff you create. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@goog

[sage-devel] calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Dodier
umstances, the right thing to do is to postpone function evaluation until additional context is supplied. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL P

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Robert Dodier
elopers can and should steer away from them. I say this after encountering various convenience hacks in Maxima, which, lo, these many decades on, are very hard to banish. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@goo

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Robert Dodier
st what he wrote? How could he express it so that his readers wouldn't mistakenly try to clean it up? I don't think he should bother trying. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To u

[sage-devel] Re: Wolfram Alpha and Google (Trendalyzer)

2009-05-02 Thread Robert Dodier
time and now it's been released.) Maxima's symbolic integration has been greatly strengthened by recent work of Dieter Kaiser and Raymond Toy. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To un

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
rce code in any sense of > the word, thus the GPL is completely irrelevant (I think we agree on > that). That simply isn't so. To quote the GPL: "This License applies to any program or other work ..." "The "Program", below, r

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
Brian Granger wrote: > Are you arguing that jpeg's produced by GIMP are all GPL'd? No. > I agree that it is definitely possible to release "non-programs", such > as JPEGs, under the GPL. OK, I misunderstood. I thought you were claiming just

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
r language) is a derived work. IANAL, Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this

[sage-devel] Re: statistics in sage

2009-05-19 Thread Robert Dodier
) Agreed 100%. As it happens, symbolic + numerical computation, specifically for Bayesian inference, is one of my pet projects. The overall strategy is to pose the problem in symbolic form, try to push the analysis symbolically as far as possible, then

[sage-devel] Re: Wolfram Alpha and Google (Trendalyzer)

2009-05-20 Thread Robert Dodier
x,0,1); Sorry for the late reply. The problem which came up in February was to compute the integrals for specific values of m and n. However Maxima still cannot solve the general problem. Hope this clarifies the situation. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: Maxima Errors

2009-06-26 Thread Robert Dodier
have observed GCL running out of memory on problems which other implementations can run to completion. So maybe switching the Lisp implementation can help, but, I'll guess, not GCL. HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-

[sage-devel] Re: Implementation of Zeilberger and similar algorthms?

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Dodier
. (The linked-to articles refer only to the simpsum flag, which handles relatively simple cases.) FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sag

[sage-devel] Re: Implementation of Zeilberger and similar algorthms?

2009-07-07 Thread Robert Dodier
-2 Or is that wishful thinking on my part? FYI the Maxima 5.19 branch is scheduled for Aug 1 with an official release later in the month. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-devel] Re: Sage organizational structure, AWOL people

2009-07-30 Thread Robert Dodier
sorganization quite comfortable; I don't have any trouble figuring out what to do, and, I guess, neither do the other participants. We get a lot of work done. It's a great project. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: Patches for building Maxima with ECL

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Dodier
code in Maxima. Well done! I'll try the patch & if all goes well I'll commit it. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsu

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Dodier
'll try the patches from Juanjo Garcia and commit them before the branch if they work. FWIW the current schedule is 3 releases per year, April, August, & December. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@goo

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Patches for building Maxima with ECL

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Dodier
en I'll commit them for Maxima 5.19. Or if anyone would like to commit the patches then please go ahead. 8^) best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an e

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Dodier
stabilizes after 2 or 3 releases, which takes 2 or 3 weeks. Probably by the end of August we'll have a stable release. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, se

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Dodier
d should have been updated like the rest. If anyone was paying attention they could have fixed it long ago. Who cares how the bug was found, at least it's fixed now. We can be grateful that anybody outside the project is still paying attention to Maxima. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~

[sage-devel] Re: New ECL is released - a few issues to consider.

2009-08-08 Thread Robert Dodier
l from Maxima CVS, my advice is to pull RELEASE-5_19-BRANCH since upcoming releases (RSN) will, I hope, differ only minimally from whatever you get. Some of the bugs mentioned might have been fixed already, I haven't checked. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--

[sage-devel] Re: New ECL is released - a few issues to consider.

2009-08-08 Thread Robert Dodier
creating a new directory named maxima in the current working directory). I'm planning to tag Maxima 5.19.0 and create tar.gz and rpms so maybe that obviates the need for CVS. Be advised it's likely there will be a few more 5.19.xx releases

[sage-devel] Re: New ECL is released - a few issues to consider.

2009-08-08 Thread Robert Dodier
I have tagged version-5_19_0 in CVS and created tar.gz and rpms and uploaded them to SF. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/ Likely there will be 5.19.1 and maybe .2 later this month. HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Possible problem with elliptic_eu in Maxima 5.19.0

2009-08-09 Thread Robert Dodier
c_e problem, my first guess is that ECL calls C libraries which yield different results. The above was generated on Solaris, right? Maybe someone can try it on other systems. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@goog

Re: [Maxima] [sage-devel] Doctest failure solving an equation solve(Q*sqrt(Q^2 + 2) - 1, Q)

2009-08-09 Thread Robert Dodier
don't know what the difference is, or whether both are needed. If topoly_solver isn't needed, we should axe it. If it's needed, we should rename it. Barton? best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-deve

Re: [Maxima] [sage-devel] Doctest failure solving an equation solve(Q*sqrt(Q^2 + 2) - 1, Q)

2009-08-09 Thread Robert Dodier
(1-sqrt(2))],[q = 1/sqrt > (sqrt(2)+1)]) Unfortunately this isn't right either. The first solution is spurious, isn't it? float(subst(q = -1/sqrt(1-sqrt(2)), q*sqrt(q^2+2)-1)) => - 1.999 Thanks for your help Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

[sage-devel] Re: [Ecls-list] How might this elliptic_e issue on SPARC hardware with ECL be debugged?

2009-08-10 Thread Robert Dodier
The code in question is function ELLIPTIC-E in maxima/src/ellipt.lisp. (Note that there are several similarly-named functions in there, so be careful.) Thanks for your help, Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@goog

[sage-devel] Re: How might this elliptic_e issue on SPARC hardware with ECL be debugged?

2009-08-10 Thread Robert Dodier
out options. HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.googl

[sage-devel] Re: Test failures with sage-4.1.1.rc0 with Maxima 5.19.0

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Dodier
Maxima mailing list archive for the story --- search for "eigenvector patch" or something like that. HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an emai

[sage-devel] Re: units

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Dodier
es represented as symbols with units and other properties * derivative and integral of quantity + units via pattern matching (still working on this one) ?? ezunits and ?? physical_quantities finds the documentation. demo(ezunits) shows some examples. Maybe a Sage units package could do

[sage-devel] Re: units

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Dodier
foot^2); => 3.045884688 ` lbm/(foot*s^2) Differences: (1) separate units from quantities (right & left sides of backtick) (2) concise notation (3) conventional abbreviations (4) conventional capitalization Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to

[sage-devel] Re: units

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Dodier
William Stein wrote: > suggested doing almost precisely what Robert Dodier keeps telling us > to do, which is make the different units just be symbolic variables, Well, in addition to implementing units as symbols, it greatly simplifies the whole business to keep the units separate fr

[sage-devel] Re: units

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Dodier
zunits); in a recent Maxima release (5.19 if you have it) and tell me if you still prefer Mathematica. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Re: units

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Dodier
;s) with say "N" for numerical_approx. Agreed. That's a good argument for separating units from quantities in an expression. Then you can tell without ambiguity which symbols are supposed to be units. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Serious bug in integral using Maxima?

2009-08-18 Thread Robert Dodier
x27;m not saying Sage should apply such an identity, only that Sage should not prevent the user from applying it. I agree that Maxima's result for integrate(f(x), x^2) is spurious. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to s

[sage-devel] Re: Using MPIR or GMP with multiple memory managers

2009-08-23 Thread Robert Dodier
the simple ((FOO) A B C) scheme above. (1) is the most important, (3) not so much, and you can ignore (2). I mention here that I'd like help on (1) and (2) because it's of interest mostly to outsiders; within Maxima it doesn't make much difference. Hope this helps in some way.

[sage-devel] Re: Using MPIR or GMP with multiple memory managers

2009-08-23 Thread Robert Dodier
omplex than just adding two integers. I suppose that adding numbers is an important enough special case that some effort could be spent trying to speed it up. But most of the fun is in symbolic stuff, so that's probably why it hasn't been done yet. Not sure in this case whether the parser or s

[sage-devel] Re: Using MPIR or GMP with multiple memory managers

2009-08-24 Thread Robert Dodier
revious message. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.g

[sage-devel] Re: Using MPIR or GMP with multiple memory managers

2009-08-24 Thread Robert Dodier
e list). Or: put print(elapsed_real_time()); in your script and load("myscript.mac"); (parses and evaluates all the stuff in the script but doesn't create labels). HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegrou

[sage-devel] Re: Using MPIR or GMP with multiple memory managers

2009-08-24 Thread Robert Dodier
On Aug 24, 2:11 pm, Nils Bruin wrote: > On Aug 24, 7:55 am, Robert Dodier wrote: > > > The #$ macro constructs a string input stream and eventually > > calls ADD-LINEINFO so it suffers from the bug I mentioned in > > a previous message. > > The $NOLABELS variabl

[sage-devel] Re: Dangerous mixing of different domains for symbolic variables

2009-09-02 Thread Robert Dodier
complex)). I think domain:complex won't have the same effect. Maybe Sage is already calling declare. HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email

[sage-devel] Re: Prototype library interface with Maxima/ECL

2009-09-05 Thread Robert Dodier
independent instances is via fork/exec. I think ECL has those and other POSIX-ish functions. Dunno if they work on Windows, if they exist. Thanks for your work on the Maxima/ECL/Sage combo. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sa

[sage-devel] Re: Statistics in Sage

2009-09-16 Thread Robert Dodier
y to avoid branching to find the right function to call? Also, the purpose of each parameter is obscured here. If uniform, gaussian, etc were classes in a package of distributions, each one could have named parameters according to what's appropriate for them (a, b, mu, sigma, whateve

[sage-devel] Re: Statistics in Sage

2009-09-16 Thread Robert Dodier
tation. Wrapping numerical functions is nice but doesn't offer anything fundamentally different. Making it possible to do statistical stuff with symbolic or mixed symbolic-numerical computations would be very exciting and useful. Maybe you're already working on that, I can't tell. If so sorr

[sage-devel] Re: Behavior of solve

2009-10-01 Thread Robert Dodier
and generate the alternatives and re-evaluate under each alternative. That way it's not necessary to change the code at all of the places at which questions are generated. I considered that also and decided against it. If anyone is interested, I would very much apprecia

[sage-devel] Re: finding arclength around a circle hangs maxima

2009-10-16 Thread Robert Dodier
On Oct 16, 2:23 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > I'm not on their list. I hope Robert Dodier or someone else sees this. Probably it's best to submit Maxima bugs to the bug tracker. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=4933&atid=104933

[sage-devel] Re: Can Sage solve inequalities?

2009-10-17 Thread Robert Dodier
llis) would be happy to answer questions posted to the mailing list. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.

[sage-devel] Re: Building Maxima (on ECL) on Itanium

2009-10-24 Thread Robert Dodier
lmacs.lisp") in Maxima. That should fail with a more informative message. If you don't have a working version, try reverting clmacs.lisp. I don't know how far back you'll have to go. Sorry I can't be more helpful, Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: maxima: too many contexts

2009-12-03 Thread Robert Dodier
ufourn(2.3, 8) Dunno what's going on here, but when I try this in Maxima 5.19.2 it works OK (I get a list of values from ufourn). I can post a session log later if there is interest. Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-devel] Re: maxima: too many contexts

2009-12-03 Thread Robert Dodier
e loop. I don't think that would help. "Too many contexts" has been an indication of some kind of bug every time I've seen it. best Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Dodier
gt; read() calls of one character each. The sys admin doubts that is anywhere > near the > problem of the NFS stat calls, but it does seem inefficient." Well, when I try it, I see sysfun.lsp being read in blocks of 8 K. Dunno why it would try to read it one byte at a time. Maybe ECL

[sage-devel] ECL reads sysfun.lsp one byte at a time, was: Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Dodier
8096. Dunno what's going on. Not really so much of a problem, but it is a curiosity. FWIW Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-15 Thread Robert Dodier
e/local/share/maxima/5.19.1/share/) So far so good > (%i1) :lisp (share-subdir-list) > > Maxima encountered a Lisp error: > >  The function SHARE-SUBDIR-LIST is undefined. Oops, it should be (share-subdirs-list) . Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send an email to sage

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-15 Thread Robert Dodier
s searching all of / . Do you see Maxima looking in all of / in the calls to stat? If not, what do you get for the above steps if you run it on a system in which Maxima searches all of / ?? FWIW Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscrib

[sage-devel] announcement: Maxima 5.20

2009-12-20 Thread Robert Dodier
ns on a variety of topics. Regards, Robert Dodier Maxima developer and 5.20 release manager Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima Documentation: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/documentation.html Bug reports. Please create a Sourceforge login before filing a bug report. http://

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for ecl/boehmgc and removal of clisp

2008-11-24 Thread Robert Dodier
quickly moving target. For the record, there will be the now-usual December release of Maxima next month, to be followed by another April, etc. Thanks a lot for your work on Maxima + ECL. I know that's only a tiny fraction of all the work you do.

[sage-devel] Re: A simpler SAGE?

2008-11-24 Thread Robert Dodier
xima; see: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/relatedprojects.html Even if you end up using Sage, you might get some ideas there. Hope this helps Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this gr

[sage-devel] Re: Expected value of probability space

2008-12-02 Thread Robert Dodier
ectation function should be moved out of the probability space base class (I don't know what that is in Sage) and into some subclass which can guarantee the operation succeeds. Just a thought. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group,

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] slowness is repeated Maxima evaluations?

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Dodier
which is called from integration. Hope I've understood the question & haven't messed up something. Robert Dodier PS. $ maxima --batch sage_fourier_helper.mac 1> 1.out 2> 2.out $ tail 1.out $ cat sage_fourier.mac fc_all(n):=fc_ab(-1,n,-%pi,(-%pi)/2)+fc_ab(2,n,-%pi/2,0)

[sage-devel] Re: Cosine Integral and Sine Integral?

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Dodier
n doing a tremendous amount of work on integration and special functions in Maxima. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For mor

[sage-devel] build recipe for Maxima in Sage?

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Dodier
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[sage-devel] Re: build recipe for Maxima in Sage?

2008-12-08 Thread Robert Dodier
mabshoff wrote: > There is no such thing in Sage, all the experiments were done without > Sage, i.e. build ecl and then Maxima. OK. Btw, what mechanism did you use to build Maxima? ASDF or defsystem or ?? best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To p

[sage-devel] Re: reduce

2009-01-03 Thread Robert Dodier
mabshoff wrote: > Yes, but you can run Maxima on top of ecl, but the issue with asksign > for example does not go away. I asked Robert Dodier about it at Dev1 > and he seemed reluctant about this possibility. Hmm, what is "this possibility" ? I don't un

[sage-devel] Maxima, ECL, asksign; was: Re: reduce

2009-01-04 Thread Robert Dodier
mabshoff wrote: > On Jan 3, 11:27�am, Robert Dodier wrote: > > Hmm, what is "this possibility" ? I don't understand. > I meant embedding Maxima into a library extensions via ecl. You stated > to the best of my recollection that this would be troublesome due to

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Dodier
g a fixed width font, from what I can tell. HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options

[sage-devel] Re: Integration syntax

2009-02-03 Thread Robert Dodier
d as a convenience function equivalent to integrate(lambda([b], a), [c, d]). I've left out many details but the general point is that I think you guys (= Sage project) should aim high. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email t

[sage-devel] Re: tab completion and function aliases cluttering the namespace

2009-02-09 Thread Robert Dodier
(Since regex characters could be arithmetic operators, allowing any kind of regex syntax seems problematic.) Maybe Sage likewise could adopt a distinction between different kinds of search. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sag

[sage-devel] Re: A laugh

2009-02-13 Thread Robert Dodier
s generally obnoxious. I've worked on ways to construct a conditional expression instead of requiring user input. I'll be happy to collaborate with interested parties on a solution. Believe it or not, Maxima is not stuck in a time warp; progress is actually possible, when we stop

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