Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-Moodle Integration

2012-02-25 Thread Jurgis Pralgauskis
I also dream of similar ideas from time to time - and I think Sympy is one of possible sollutions http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/browse_thread/thread/51ee431301b0c0b Other similar topics: http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/browse_thread/thread/929ab3e56555b6e5 (links to http://mathomatic

[sage-edu] Classic Cryptography: Enhanced Bellaso Cipher --toward-> One-Time-Pad

2012-02-25 Thread John McNally
Using Sage, the Bellaso cipher can be enhanced to provide an excellent approximation to the (theoretically unbreakable) one-time-pad. A worksheet demonstrating this is available at: http://sagenb.org/home/pub/4380 This worksheet, together with another evaluating the cipher, and sample text files

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-Moodle Integration

2012-02-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/25/12 1:48 AM, tkosan wrote: Most general-purpose CASs are not able to show steps like this because they use more advanced mathematical techniques than humans do. The research I have been doing indicates that only a CAS that has been specifically designed to perform mathematics like a human

[sage-edu] Re: Sage-Moodle Integration

2012-02-25 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 25, 8:15 am, Jason Grout wrote: > On 2/25/12 1:48 AM, tkosan wrote: > > > Most general-purpose CASs are not able to show steps like this because > > they use more advanced mathematical techniques than humans do. The > > research I have been doing indicates that only a CAS that has been >