Re: [sage-edu] Re: Issues on SageCell?

2017-05-12 Thread 'A Jorge Garcia' via sage-edu
; #2) comments >> When I make a permalink to share my SageCells online, sometimes the >> comments are truncated. >> I use "#" as in the python comment. >> >> #3) n() >> On a separate note, I like using the n() method whenever I need to >di

Re: [sage-edu] Power Regression question

2014-03-03 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Is there a solver in SAGE that only outputs real roots? Sincerely, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math, Physics & CS http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 2013 NYS Secondary Math http://PAEMST.org Nominee -Original Message- From: MišoLietavec To: sage

Re: [sage-edu] sage in the clouds!

2014-01-29 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I had a hard time coming up with a passwd that was not so complicated that I could not remember it ever again! I use DropBox and had no problems there. The collaboration and chat features are nice. What if I want to share a worksheet on my blog? Sincerely, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-26 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
option of using SAGE or a TI83 on HomeWorks, Quizzes and Tests. So, I use the "Older" files for a flipped classroom. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math, Physics & CS http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 2013 NYS Secondary Math http://PAEMST.org Nominee

[sage-edu] Re: LIMACON SUNY Old Westbury 3/15/13

2013-03-15 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Just finished my presentation: "SAGE Advice. Let's replace TI83s with SAGE and python in preCalculus class!" http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2013/03/limacon-2013-looming-large.html HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math, Physics and CS http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://

[sage-edu] LIMACON SUNY Old Westbury 3/15/13

2013-03-06 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
FYI:I'll be speaking at LIMACON SUNY Old Westbury 3/15/13 about using SAGE and python to teach High School preCalculus! http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2013/03/limacon-2013-looming-large.html HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math, Physics and CS http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage for Android

2012-06-09 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. Algebraic expressions work fine but I can't plot. I'm using a DroidX cellphone and Kindle Fire. These work fine on alpha.sagenb.org ho

[sage-edu] Re: https://sage.math.clemson.edu:34567

2012-06-08 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Yes, I'm sorry to bother you on this page. However, their contact information is not on their login page anymore and I thought they would see this posting. In any case, their server is up again now. It was down over 12 hours. Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia On Jun 8, 9:28 am, kcrisman wrote: >

[sage-edu] https://sage.math.clemson.edu:34567

2012-06-08 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Anyone know why this server is down? I have not been able to use it all night and needed to work on some files there for class tomorrow... TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because

[sage-edu] Calculus projects in High School using SAGE!

2012-06-04 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
/06/quarter-iv-week-7-screencasts.html http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2012/06/teaching-ap-calculus-life-after.html https://sage.math.clemson.edu:34567/pub/?typ=pub&search=lac2012 https://sage.math.clemson.edu:34567/pub/?typ=pub&search=calcpage123 HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Appli

[sage-edu] Re: Installing sage.lzma file

2012-05-23 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
4.8 for 32bit Ubuntu 11.10? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to

[sage-edu] Re: Installing sage.lzma file

2012-05-22 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Sorry, I was not a member of that group. I will join it! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups

[sage-edu] Re: Installing sage.lzma file

2012-05-22 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Could it be that this *.lzma file is for 32bit Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm trying to run it on 32bit Ubuntu 11.10 and 64bit Ubuntu 11.04? When I run it on 32bit Ubuntu 11.10 I get: | Sage Version 5.0, Release Date: 2012-05-14 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for inf

[sage-edu] Re: Installing sage.lzma file

2012-05-22 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Thanx, I forgot about that! However, I did run ./sage as root and got a ton of new errors! On May 22, 1:28 pm, MišoLietavec wrote: > Run sage as root for the first time. > This will fix the installation issues, in my experience. > > Michal > > 2012/5/22 A. Jorge Garcia : >

[sage-edu] Installing sage.lzma file

2012-05-22 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
etc/environment file. Now when I type "sage" in a terminal, I get all sorts of errors about the installation having been moved. Does anyone know how to fix this? I need this sort of install in a PC Lab without internet access and I can't setup a local sage server right now. TI

Re: [sage-edu] Riemann Sums

2012-03-19 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
emann Sums. So, I thought I'd show the students a little about lists and sums in python using SAGE. This is how far we got, https://sage.math.clemson.edu:34567/home/pub/297 I wonder if anyone else is using SAGE with their Calculus I and II students and what you do. TIA, A. Jo

Re: [sage-edu] Riemann Sums

2012-03-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
reference: https://sage.math.clemson.edu:34567/pub/?typ=pub&search=calcpage TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu"

Re: [sage-edu] Riemann Sums

2012-03-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
OOPS, sorry, I didn't think of that. I thought you'd like my SAGE related links. Won't happen again. Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -Original Message- From: David Joyner To: sage

[sage-edu] Riemann Sums

2012-03-17 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
My students are having fun writing python functions in SAGE to estimate definite integrals: http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2012/03/quarter-iii-week-6-screencasts.html HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You

[sage-edu] ScreenCasts, SmartNotes and Code, oh my!

2012-03-11 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I think you will be interested in what I'm doing with Python and SAGE in my Calculus Research Lab. Have a look, http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2012/03/quarter-iii-week-5-screencasts.html HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtub

Re: [sage-edu] math & science majors need to know how to program -> unless they go into education

2012-03-10 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
the wrong message? Math and Science majors should take compsci ESPECIALLY if going into education!!! Regards, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless -- You received this message because you are

Re: [sage-edu] Re: how to unshare files that have been shared with you?

2012-02-06 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
t's so easy now. I say leave it the way it is! Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-ed

Re: [sage-edu] Re: how to unshare files that have been shared with you?

2012-02-05 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I have the same problem. I would ordinarily setup my own local SAGE server, but I don't have a spare Linux box right now. TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -Original Message- From: michel paul To:

[sage-edu] Re: https://clemix.clemson.edu:34567

2012-01-03 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
BTW, all is right with the world once again. The Clemson server is back up and running outside their firewall. Anyone who needs the URL to retrieve their worksheets can email me off list. Regards, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com

Re: [sage-edu] Re: https://clemix.clemson.edu:34567

2012-01-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Jason Grout wrote: On 1/2/12 3:33 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > "A. Jorge Garcia" wrote: > I suppose I can move my students to another server since I don't have > the horsepower to install my own. My students will be upset, however, > not to have access to all their

Re: [sage-edu] Re: https://clemix.clemson.edu:34567

2012-01-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
"A. Jorge Garcia" wrote: kcrisman wrote: On Dec 31 2011, 11:10 am, "A. Jorge Garcia" wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I was wondering if anyone had contact info for the maintainer of > thehttps://clemix.clemson.edu:34567SAGE server? > > My students h

Re: [sage-edu] Re: https://clemix.clemson.edu:34567

2012-01-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
kcrisman wrote: On Dec 31 2011, 11:10 am, "A. Jorge Garcia" wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I was wondering if anyone had contact info for the maintainer of > thehttps://clemix.clemson.edu:34567SAGE server? > > My students have been using this server without any pr

[sage-edu] https://clemix.clemson.edu:34567

2011-12-31 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Hello Everyone, I was wondering if anyone had contact info for the maintainer of the https://clemix.clemson.edu:34567 SAGE server? My students have been using this server without any problems since Sept. However, this past week its down. TIA, A. Jorge Garcia mailto:calcp...@aol.com http

Re: [sage-edu] turtle.py and vpython

2011-11-22 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:35 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcp...@aol.com> wrote: > I'm curious if anyone has had success with turtle graphics in python. > Can this be done in SAGE? Hi, Given that this [1] is called "Turtle Graphic

Re: [sage-edu] turtle.py and vpython

2011-11-22 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
William Stein wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:35 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > I'm curious if anyone has had success with turtle graphics in python. > Can this be done in SAGE? Hi, Given that this [1] is called "Turtle Graphics for Tk" (which is included standard in Pytho

Re: [sage-edu] turtle.py and vpython

2011-11-20 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
OK, what about VPython? Can we do animations such as these http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=pythonThompsonVPythonSeries with jmol or tachyon? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -Original

[sage-edu] turtle.py and vpython

2011-11-20 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I'm curious if anyone has had success with turtle graphics in python. Can this be done in SAGE? Also, can we use VPython in SAGE? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because yo

[sage-edu] Re: sequences

2011-11-20 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Well, what I want to do eventually is process a large number of inputs and improve run time with @cython or @parallel. How do I accomplish this? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 On Nov 3, 7:23 pm, "A. Jorge G

Re: [sage-edu] sequences

2011-11-03 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
ad and define a(n) for the nth term and then use map or list comprehension to expand the sequence? It seems to me that's a lot clearer. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:04 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: Sorry, what I meant to say was: what if I define a function such as def a(n): return 1/n**2 so runni

Re: [sage-edu] sequences

2011-11-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Jamie Mulholland wrote: Could use the map command: sage: a(n)=n^2 sage: map(a,[1,2,3]) [1,4,9] Cheers Jamie On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:52 AM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > My discrete math class was playing with sequences today. > > Example 1) > a(n)=1/n**2 > for I in range(1,10)

[sage-edu] sequences

2011-11-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
a new list with the sequence evaluated. So, if a(n)=n**2 and the input is [1,2,3] the output should be [1,4,9]. TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, sen

Re: [sage-edu] Using Sage in the High School Classroom

2011-10-21 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
sively in my preCS class and in my Calculus Research Lab! If you are interested, you can get more info on these projects from my blog as listed below. Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireles

Re: [sage-edu] Re: problem with booleans?

2011-09-21 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Thanx so much to all who replied to this thread. It makes sense now. I can go back and explain it all to my students! Thank you, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -Original Message- From: Micah James To

Re: [sage-edu] Re: problem with booleans?

2011-09-21 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
This may not be the ideal way to present the functions to your class, but it might be better than something of the form sage: (f(2)-g(-1)).is_zero() Here's hoping this was helpful! -Micah On Sep 21, 2:04 pm, "A. Jorge Garcia" wrote: > I had a weird problem in class today. Let

[sage-edu] problem with booleans?

2011-09-21 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I had a weird problem in class today. Let's say I had the following code in a cell: f(x)=x**2-4 g(x)=x**2+2*x+1 f(2)==g(-1) What output should I get? I was expecting: True Am I crazy? Needless to say I didn't! TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.y

Re: [sage-edu] What's up with all the Internal Server Errors?

2011-09-20 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
m. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. I use Sage in all my classes. My classroom is like a paperless office finally! Class work and homework is done on Sage. I share handouts and screencasts on edmodo. Even my textbooks are online. Thanx, A. Jorge

Re: [sage-edu] Blogs, Videos, Songs and Documentaries for your viewing pleasure!

2011-08-11 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
William Stein wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:18 PM, David Joyner wrote: > Are any of these directly related to Sage? If so, can you say which > ones and *only* post > the Sage-related links please? And stop using explanation points! > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:00 P

[sage-edu] Blogs, Videos, Songs and Documentaries for your viewing pleasure!

2011-08-11 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
ntaries I saved from crumbling VHS tapes for YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/cistheta2007#g/c/35534A5E32FB49A4 Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

[sage-edu] Calculus Research Lab

2011-08-10 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
s level. I'm in a US High School setting, but Freshman or Sophomore College level experience would also be helpful. Any pointers or other resources you can recommend will be greatly appreciated! TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com Applied Math & CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogsp

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-07-11 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
OOPS, sorry, I recently joined Linkedin. I had not idea they were going to troll ALL my contacts and send out these invites. Please disregard! Sorry, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -Original Message- From

Re: [sage-edu] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-06-28 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
David Joyner wrote: Please don't email these to sage-edu. This list is for Sage-related educational issues only. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:58 AM, A, Jorge Garcia wrote: LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - A, Jorge A, Jorge Garcia Professor

[sage-edu] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-06-28 Thread A, Jorge Garcia
LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - A, Jorge A, Jorge Garcia Professor at Nassau Community College Greater New York City Area Confirm that you know A, Jorge Garcia https://www.linkedin.com/e/-pblmfp-gph1jucd-6w/isd/3368023134/be8

[sage-edu] NEW: Blogs, Videos and Donorschoose!

2011-06-11 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Tube! http://www.youtube.com/cistheta2007 Here's my current DonorsChoose project! http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=520470&challengeid=32688#materials Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -

[sage-edu] NEW: Blogs, Videos and Donorschoose!

2011-05-07 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
materials Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.

[sage-edu] using python's input()

2011-03-20 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Is there anyway to use the input() command from a notebook? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to

Re: [sage-edu] Improvements to the notebook worksheet

2011-03-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Speaking of input, is there anyway to use the input() function from python in a SAGE notebook cell? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[sage-edu] NEW: Blogs, Videos and Donorschoose!

2011-02-06 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
sines)! http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Take a look at my latest DonorsChoose project (new Tablet PC for SmartBoarding and ScreenCasting)! http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=520470&challengeid=32688&more=true HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant

Re: [sage-edu] Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-30 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
umbled on the Ubuntu binary at http://www.sagemath.org and used that instead! I reinstalled my whole classroom this past Midterm Week for my students to start using tomorrow. If you are interested in the sordid details, please see the last couple of posts on my blog listed below. HTH, A. Jorge G

[sage-edu] Happy New Year 2011!!!

2011-01-01 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Happy New Year all! Please enjoy my YouTubes and BlogSpots! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to

[sage-edu] SAGE server connection issues

2010-11-22 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Both today and this past Friday we have lots of connection issues. Connections would time out or be very laggy taking a long time to complete even a simple operation or the server could not be found in order to save worksheets. I'm wondering if anyone else is have trouble like this of late? TIA

[sage-edu] Re: Discrete Math proof

2010-11-19 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
OK, I had var('a,r,n') already. I added simplify_radical() and got a teachable moment: "why did we get sqrt(a**2)==abs(a)? Then we added assume(a>0) and all was well with the world! Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calc

Re: [sage-edu] Discrete Math proof

2010-11-19 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Yes, I should have used assum(a>0), thanx for reminding me! Also, the var('a,r,n') was a typo, sorry, I was writing this from memory on my iPod Touch on the commute home.... HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher &

Re: [sage-edu] Discrete Math proof

2010-11-19 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Ah, yes, simplify_full(), that's what I forgot! OK, there's a simplify_radical() too? You learn something new everyday. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Comput

[sage-edu] Discrete Math proof

2010-11-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
**(n-1) term2 = a*r*(n+1) prod = term1*term2 avg = simplify(sqrt(prod)) show(term1) show(term2) show(sum) show(avg) however, I got the following output a*r**(n-1) a*r*(n+1) a**2*r**(2*n) sqrt(a**2*r**(2*n)) I couldn't get the final result to reduce to a*r**n, is there a way to

[sage-edu] Re: computational thinking - 21st century algebra

2010-11-08 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Wow, that looks great! You made your presentation like SAGE-Days. Very nice. You can see what I did on my blog where I have a screen-cast of my presentation at T^3 Molloy 2010. Regards, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[sage-edu] Re: [Edu-sig] AP Computer Science

2010-11-07 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
lus in a computer lab setting and we use some python. These students are very over scheduled, so this new lab is not required. To get enough kids to sign up for this new course, I had to open it up to the AP Calculus AB students too, so there's a lot of review for my BC ki

Re: [sage-edu] Re: [Edu-sig] AP Computer Science

2010-11-07 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
lot of review for my BC kids which ain't all bad. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received

[sage-edu] T^3 2010 Molloy Colege

2010-11-06 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
gspot listed below. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sa

Re: [sage-edu] howto add fancy text to my worksheets?

2010-10-24 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I was trying some python import commands import this import antigravity import turtle got nowhere with the last two. What does "import antigravity" do? Can I do turtle graphics in SAGE? Take a look: https://clemix.clemson.edu:34567/home/pub/150 HTH, A. Jorge G

Re: [sage-edu] howto add fancy text to my worksheets?

2010-10-10 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
OK, I got it to work: https://clemix.clemson.edu:34567/home/pub/139 Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community Coll

Re: [sage-edu] howto add fancy text to my worksheets?

2010-10-08 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I tried to but all I get is unrendered html code TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -Orig

Re: [sage-edu] howto add fancy text to my worksheets?

2010-10-07 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
n use latex.  It's actually what prompted me to learn some latex.  It's great.  You can do all kinds of stuff. Wow, really? That's all I had to do? This sounds interesting! OK, now, how much tex can I remember.... HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com ht

[sage-edu] howto add fancy text to my worksheets?

2010-10-06 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
he worksheet or between the evaluation cells. See, for example, http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/538/ How is this done? I want to spruce up some of my worksheets for class and show my students how to do so as well for worksheets they hand in for a grade. Is this some sore of latex? TIA, A. Jorge Gar

Re: [sage-edu] Free calculus texts?

2010-07-24 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
calc2-sage/hoffman-stein-calculus.pdf http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/DiffyQ/des-book.pdf MATLAB/Octave http://www.mathworks.com/moler/index_ncm.html http://www.mathworks.com/moler/exm/index.html R http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Verzani-SimpleR.pdf HTH, A. Jorge G

Re: [sage-edu] outline of Sage tutorial for high school students

2010-07-17 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Wow, we call this a root or a radical over here in the States! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College --

Re: [sage-edu] SAGE tutorial for highschool students?

2010-07-16 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
in this course. These kids are way over scheduled, so I couldn't require all my BC students take the Lab. As a result, I had low enrollment until I opened it up to AB Calculus students as well. So, its going to cover mostly AB material, but I will try to throw in some BC topics as wel

[sage-edu] Re: Long Island MAth CONference (LIMACON 2010 at SUNY Old Westbury)

2010-05-19 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
n "share" it with my account. I can grade their work this way, but I like to grade hardcopy and having to open every worksheet myself and print from another PC with Firefox is a hassle. BTW, I gave the students the liveSAGE CD not in order to run a SAGE server on each student PC, but to giv

[sage-edu] Re: Long Island MAth CONference (LIMACON 2010 at SUNY Old Westbury)

2010-05-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
out there? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu&q

RE: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread A Jorge Garcia
I am thinking of using it for my Calculus Research Lab with SAGE next year! -Original Message- From: Dana Ernst Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:35 AM To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com Subject: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage I'm intrigued by the "Differential Calculus and Sage" book found

[sage-edu] Installing SAGE 4.3.1 on Fedora 12 with x86_64

2010-02-04 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
ran before running SAGE. Well, that's a Debian command, so I tried "yum install gfortran" but Fedora didn't find it. I was hoping that gfortran was only needed when compiling from source, not when running the binaries Please help, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com

[sage-edu] Re: Lucas-Lehmer Test

2009-01-26 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
beginning of this thread is it? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[sage-edu] Re: Lucas-Lehmer Test

2009-01-24 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
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[sage-edu] Lucas-Lehmer Test

2009-01-23 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
g 2**p-1, right? This function dosn't do that! Anyone recall the correct algorithm for this test? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcapge.tripod.com Applied Math, Physics and CompSci Baldwin High School & Nassau Community College --~--~-~--~~~-

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Oh, that reminds me, I was looking at http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref and found a command "lprint" that's supposed to work like jsmath() but http://www.sagenb.org does not recognize it. Is is deprecated? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com Teach

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Never mind, I forgot the a,b,c,d,x,y=var(a,b,c,x,y) I'm still not clear when I need this var() command and when I don't Regards, A. Jorge Garcia mailto:calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message b

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Regards, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubsc

[sage-edu] Re: www.sagenb.org

2009-01-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Oh, and I guess I should mention that I'm using debian linux, not vmware. TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu"

[sage-edu] Re: www.sagenb.org

2009-01-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
OK, if I run a local notebook() on my dualcore, how do I make use of both cores? Also, I have 25 dualcores in my classroom, so can I make use of all 50 cores as a grid? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[sage-edu] Re: learning python

2009-01-17 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
It all sarted with BASIC on a PDP 11/780 from a local BOCES via a 300 baud modem... Regards, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sag

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I saw in this document a sample notebook() page that looked like latex output. How is that done? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage,tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[sage-edu] learning python

2009-01-17 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I'm really liking this Sage environment. So, I suppose its time to learn some python. I tried the following code: for p in range(2,10) if is_prime(2^p-1) print p, 2^p-1 and got the error: Syntax Error: if is_prime(2^p-1) what am I missing? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia

[sage-edu] Sage 3.2.3 32bit or 64bit? That is the question....

2009-01-17 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
upgrading to a 64bit OS (ubuntoo or gentoo?) first, then installing the 64bit Sage tarball? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Commu

[sage-edu] www.sagenb.org

2009-01-15 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Just wondering what hardware you are using to run the online notebook () server? I don't suppose its some sort of cluster using dSage? The reason I ask is because I was just calculating to large mersenne primes on www.sagenb.org and they came back pretty fast! TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Te

[sage-edu] Re: Sage 3.1.1 liveCD

2009-01-14 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
ed to tachyon format? (4) Was the chess scene in Yi Qiang's demo of dSage (http:// www.msri.org/communications/vmath/VMathVideos/VideoInfo/2988/show_video) made using tachyon or povray? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com Applied Math, Physics and Computer Science Baldwin Senior High Schoo

[sage-edu] Re: Sage 3.1.1 liveCD

2009-01-13 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
OOPs, tachyon does work. I tried the following and all is well: x,y=var('x,y') a=plot3d(x**2+y**2, (x,-10,10), (y,-10,10)) show(a,viewer='tachyon') Is tachyon the only 3d viewer on the liveCD then? Also, why doesn't tachyon? give any help? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia

[sage-edu] Sage 3.1.1 liveCD

2009-01-13 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
1 in general, or are these problems inherent in the liveCD only, or am I doing something wrong? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math, Physics and Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com ftp://cen

[sage-edu] Howto setup local sagenb?

2009-01-12 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Just wondering how to setup something like www.sagenb.org on my own server? Do I need apache first? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Teacher & Professor Applied Math, Physics & CompSci Baldwin Hogh School & Nassau Community College CALCPAGE: Calculus and CompSci Archive

[sage-edu] Re: Anyone using dSage on a cluster?

2009-01-12 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
OK, I suppose noone is using dSage then? Does anyone have a current email address for Yi Qiang? I used the one on his dSage website, but he's not replying so I'm thinking that's not his current email address TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Teacher & Professor Applied Math, Physic

[sage-edu] Re: Anyone using dSage on a cluster?

2009-01-06 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
too! I'd very much like to make use of dSage too. Any advice is greatly appreciated. TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Teacher & Professor Applied Math, Physics & CompSci Baldwin Hogh School & Nassau Community College CALCPAGE: Calculus and CompSci Archive Online ftp://centauri.baldwi

[sage-edu] Anyone using dSage on a cluster?

2008-12-23 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
igm? I've used the openMosix linux kernel in the past with some success, but MPI has always been a problem to set up on our LAN... Any help will be greatly appreciated! TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Teacher and Professor Applied Math, Computer Science and Physics Baldwin High School and Nassau Com