Fwd: [sage-edu] Abelian Groups: comments and suggestions

2012-05-04 Thread David Joyner
Forwarded to sage-edu (as requested by John Cremona). -- Forwarded message -- From: John Cremona Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [sage-edu] Abelian Groups: comments and suggestions To: Rob Beezer Cc: sage-edu@googlegroups.com, David Joyner Don't forget th

Re: [sage-edu] Abelian Groups: comments and suggestions

2012-05-03 Thread Rob Beezer
On Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:50:08 PM UTC-7, William Stein wrote: > It would be good if somebody rewrote abelian groups from scratch > taking into account your comments above. Personally, I would probably > make the user interface be similar to Magma's abelian groups, which is > pretty well th

Re: [sage-edu] Abelian Groups: comments and suggestions

2012-03-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Mike OS >> >> AbelianGroups: has some bugs. >> (1) is_cyclic() is sometimes incorrect >> B= AbelianGroup([3,4,5]) >> sage: B.is_cyclic() >> False It occurs to me that this is easy for me to fix havi

Re: [sage-edu] Abelian Groups: comments and suggestions

2012-03-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Mike OS wrote: > I am using sage in a graduate algebra class, and would like to expand > to > other courses.  I've found a few things that are incomplete, > inconsistent or > that would be confusing to students and realized it might be good to > organize and > cata

[sage-edu] Abelian Groups: comments and suggestions

2012-03-15 Thread Mike OS
I am using sage in a graduate algebra class, and would like to expand to other courses. I've found a few things that are incomplete, inconsistent or that would be confusing to students and realized it might be good to organize and catalogue them for sage developers, to give a user/teacher's perspe