[sage-edu] Many variables?

2009-01-06 Thread lfmartins
What would be the best way, for students, to define functions of an arbitrary (but fixed) number of variables? What I am using right now is a function: def makevars(prefix, n): return var(' '.join([prefix+str(i) for i in range(n)])) So, for example: x=makevars('x',5) Creates the 5 variabl

[sage-edu] Re: Many variables?

2009-01-06 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:06 AM, lfmartins wrote: > > What would be the best way, for students, to define functions of an > arbitrary (but fixed) number of variables? > > What I am using right now is a function: > > def makevars(prefix, n): >return var(' '.join([prefix+str(i) for i in range(n)

[sage-edu] Re: Many variables?

2009-01-06 Thread Luiz Felipe Martins
It is uploaded: http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/139 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:10 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:06 AM, lfmartins > wrote: >> >> What would be the best way, for students, to define functions of an >> arbitrary (but fixed) number of variables? >> >> What I

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

2009-01-06 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
No takers? I am very excited at discovering Sage. My students are using www.sagenb.org and the love Sage CD already! We love the matrix and calculus features of Sage, not to mention the great interface (notebook) and programming language (python). I use plot, plot3D and Tachyon extensively too

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

2009-01-06 Thread CalcPage
OOPS typo: ... My students are using _www.sagenb.org_ (http://www.sagenb.org) and the live Sage CD already ... Regards, A. Jorge Garcia Teacher & Professor Applied Math, Physics & CompSci Baldwin Hogh School & Nassau Community College CALCPAGE: Calculus and CompSci Archive Online ftp://ce

[sage-edu] sage worksheet's by Prof Cha

2009-01-06 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I have added to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/worksheets/others/ recent worksheets by Byungchul Cha, posted with his kind permission. See below for his description of how they were used. (See cha-license.txt and cha-readme.txt at the website above for more details.) BTW,

[sage-edu] Re: sage worksheet's by Prof Cha

2009-01-06 Thread Luiz Felipe Martins
Here is a basic question: how to enter the HTML text between cells? Is there a handy way to do it? The only thing I could figure out is to jump back and forth from "Worksheet" to "Edit". (I also saw the LaTeX-Sage converter, but still have to experiment with it.) On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:48 PM,

[sage-edu] Re: sage worksheet's by Prof Cha

2009-01-06 Thread jason-sage
Luiz Felipe Martins wrote: > Here is a basic question: how to enter the HTML text between cells? Is > there a handy way to do it? The only thing I could figure out is to > jump back and forth from "Worksheet" to "Edit". > > (I also saw the LaTeX-Sage converter, but still have to experiment with it