[sage-edu] Re: Why SAGE as opposed to, say, SCILAB?

2008-06-06 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Tom, >From scilab's website: "Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications". This is great if you want to do numerical computations or "engineering and scientific applications", b

[sage-edu] Re: Howto setup local sagenb?

2009-01-12 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:59 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > Just wondering how to setup something like www.sagenb.org on my own > server? Do I need apache first? You don't need to have Apache first -- you just need to specify the correct options when you start the notebook. The followi

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

2009-01-12 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:57 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > 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 DSage is

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

2009-01-12 Thread Mike Hansen
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:20 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 1/12/2009 6:30:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > mhan...@gmail.com writes: > > If one were doing this on a cluster, you'd start workers on each of > the machines in the cluster and then have each of those workers > connect to a single s

[sage-edu] Re: Howto setup local sagenb?

2009-01-12 Thread Mike Hansen
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:24 PM, wrote: > Yes, I do want to make it accessible to others but only on an intranet at > school. If I set up a server as you detailed, how do users log-on from > another PC in the school? It's just a web server, so they'll just fire up a web browser and go to the a

[sage-edu] Re: Sage 3.1.1 liveCD

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > Some questions about Tachyon: I can answer a few of these. > (1) Is this the same tachyon by John Stone? If so, how is this a > python file? I found John Stone's website documenting tachyon and its > 12 years old! Was python s

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

2009-01-15 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:57 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > Just wondering what hardware you are using to run the online notebook > () server? I don't suppose its some sort of cluster using dSage? sagenb.org is just running on a virtual machine on William Stein's desktop machine. It ha

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

2009-01-18 Thread Mike Hansen
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > OK, if I run a local notebook() on my dualcore, how do I make use of > both cores? If you have two open worksheets, they'll run as two separate processes which can run on different cores. Or, you can use the @parallel decorator to make

Re: [sage-edu] inconsistent behavior

2010-07-01 Thread Mike Hansen
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:26 AM, michel paul wrote: > There's no problem whatsoever in using lists of numbers, both the > combinations and permutations functions return the expected lists of values, > but there is this inconsistency when trying to use letters. > - Michel You should use the upper

Re: [sage-edu] uh oh

2010-08-20 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:31 PM, michel paul wrote: > sage: _ / -3 > x |--> x > (8/3) > > The '>' should be '<'. A conscious decision was made for this not to be the case since one has to check whether or not the operand being applied is less than or greater than zero. In your specific case, it

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

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Hansen
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Kamhamea wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to improve the notebook woksheets so some of the input boxes > (mostly the html-input) can be hidden. This would improve readability > of the webpages as it would allow to show more extensive explainatory > text between calculatio