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

2008-06-06 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I am sure other people will have more to say about this, but SCILAB seems to be more aimed at numerical computation and doesn't have much support for working in areas like number theory, combinatorics, exact linear algebra, etc. There's also a question of licensing (more restrictive commer

[sage-edu] Re: material for sage screencast

2008-09-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 16, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Jose wrote: > > All: > > I'm thinking about putting together another screencast in the same > vein as > > http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=2450010&fromSeriesID=245 > > on the special idioms in sage (i.e. the 0..10 = range(10)) and on the > new functions to put G

[sage-edu] Re: material for sage screencast

2008-09-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 16, 2008, at 1:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Sorry for the confusion regarding range(). >>> >>> Are there other idioms not in standard python that should be >>> highlighted? >>> >>> Thanks!

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 22, 2008, at 5:58 AM, kcrisman wrote: >>> Of course, because I like Sage I'd like to be able to do this >>> entirely in Sage. One problem with gnumeric is that >>> there is no mac version I know of. (Of course, >>> one could buy excel for a mac but I don't want to do that.) > > You can use

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

2009-01-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:10 PM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: > That's interesting because I calculated M37 = 2^3021377-1 (909526 > digits) on a 2.6 GHz pentium 4 using my own C++ class to represent > large ints and it about 2 hours. > > I calculated the same thing on www.sagenb.org and it took about

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

2009-01-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:25 PM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: > OK, I'm confused about the time procedure. What's the difference > between > sage: time s = 2^3021377-1 > CPU time: 0.00 s, Wall time: 0.00 s The variable s now holds the integer 2^3021377-1, represented internally in binary. > and >

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

2009-01-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:39 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> >> On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:10 PM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: >> >>> That's interesting because I calculated M37 = 2^3021377-1 (909526 >>>

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

2009-01-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:53 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> [[his >>> timing turns >>> out to really have been of printing out the answer via the notebook. >>> better would be to do >>> sage: time s = 2^3021377-1 >>> CPU time: 0.00 s, Wall time: 0.00 s >>> sage: time open('output.txt','w').write(str

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

2009-01-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:57 PM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/15/2009 7:53:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > wst...@gmail.com writes: > It wasn't. 2^3021377-1 is the third largest known and the next two > larger are > only slightly bigger. > I was calculating M37 which is the la

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

2009-01-17 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:51 AM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: > BTW, if www.sagenb.org runs on a single PC with a quadcore, the > question still remains, is Sage multicore aware without dSage or are > you using dSage here? Some of the underlaying components, like ATLAS, can be compiled to be multicore

[sage-edu] Re: sage mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:12 PM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/27/2009 2:38:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > wst...@gmail.com writes: > This discussion should be on sage-nt, the list for sage number theory > discussion: > Oh, I did not know of this list! How do I get a list of all

[sage-edu] Re: NSF report on math - tech part

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:43 AM, jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: > kcrisman wrote: >> The NSF has just put out a video series (five minutes each, maybe) on >> the state of math ed in the country. It's actually somewhat >> disappointingly vague in parts, but certainly has potential to get >> peopl

[sage-edu] Re: sage-moodle integration

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 15, 2009, at 6:23 AM, mabshoff wrote: > On Feb 15, 6:17 am, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi, > >> Hi Herli. There are people working on this, but off the top of my >> head >> I am not sure if they are members of this list or not. If no one >> replies >> within several days, I'll dig up ema

[sage-edu] Re: 3d tubes in SAGE

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 7, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Rado wrote: > Hello, > > To test the 3D plotting abilities of sage, I tried to implement some > basic tube plotting like the ones here > http://facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/java/LiveMathematica/tubes.html > (mathematica handles those beautifully). > > The code is nice a

[sage-edu] Re: interactive visualizing cross-sections of solids ?

2009-05-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I don't believe we have anything like this yet, but it seems it could be (relatively) easily built on top of the new and very cool 3d implicit plotting functionality. - Robert On May 15, 2009, at 1:42 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis wrote: > > Hello, > > stereometry needs imagination or more experie

[sage-edu] Re: Multiplying lists

2009-07-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jul 21, 2009, at 4:52 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Mike wrote: >> >> Hi, I have a quick question. I'm fairly new to python and sage, >> and am >> attempting to learn it to use in my engineering classes. My >> problem is >> that I have 2 lists >> x = [1, 2, 3

[sage-edu] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:18 PM, Thierry Dumont wrote: > jason-s...@creativetrax.com a écrit : >> >> Williams post: >> >> Hello, >> >> Grant proposal season is upon us, and things are in the works. >> Imagine somebody said to you: >> >> "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund. Wha

[sage-edu] Re: SageIDE as an education-oriented GUI for Sage

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 21, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for your answers. I think also that starting simple and small > is > a way to increase the use of Sage also. My questions about interface > and > language because I'm trying to use CAS in education with note

Re: [sage-edu] *Independently* doing Sage notebooks doesn't seem to work in high school...

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:44 PM, michel paul wrote: > > Sound familiar to anyone? > > Absolutely! Yeah, the average HS student just wants to be told what > to do. So this has been very tricky - how to get the kids to use > something like Sage/Python as a way to explore ideas on their own > whe

Re: [sage-edu] Re: hardware/software requirements for a local Sage server

2009-12-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 11, 2009, at 9:52 PM, jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: > Byungchul Cha wrote: >> This discussion is very relevant to me, as I am also in the process >> of >> working with our IT people at my campus in order to set up a sage >> server for my college. >> >> My IT person suggests that I ru

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Calculus and Sage

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 15, 2010, at 5:40 AM, kcrisman wrote: Although I personally enjoy the *good* examples; honestly, I think it would be irresponsible to ask someone taking calculus as a pre- physical-therapy student (which ours are required to, for good biomechanical reasons) to learn from a definition-theo

Re: [sage-edu] Re: SAGE in abstract algebra class

2010-03-08 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: Hi Mike, First, thanks for your work on this. An implementation of finite abelian groups would be at the top of my list. Folklore has it many have tried - not sure just where it gets hard. Implementing it isn't that hard (I think)--we already ha

Re: [sage-edu] Nicely written tutorial worksheets

2010-04-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 22, 2010, at 5:30 AM, Dan Drake wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 at 10:53PM -0700, William Stein wrote: A related idea -- when people click "public" they could opt-in with a checkbox to publish under a certain license. Then we can legally collect together the best published worksheets elsewhe

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

2010-05-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 18, 2010, at 4:24 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: Wow, I tried using http://www.sagenb.org all day in class today and it was WAY SLOW!!! I finally discovered an alternate sage server at clemson and things went a bit better. I have tried the KAIST server inthe past, but it seems to be down or

Re: [sage-edu] Trying to build a SageServer for my calculus class: A SageServer Vbox appliance?

2010-06-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 17, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Calcpage wrote: Why set up a virtual box when you have linux? For security reasons. Regards, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CS http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com Sent from my iPod On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Bruce Cohen wrote: It's summertime, and I thought

Re: [sage-edu] Discrete Math proof

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:32 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > My Discrete Math students today came up with an observation: The > average of any 3 consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence equals > the middle term.  So, I thought we'd show off some CAS in SAGE (this > class uses python primarily) and

Re: [sage-edu] Plotting trigonometric functions

2010-11-30 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I don't know the answer to your question, but I bet you'd have better luck on sage-support. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Maura Murray wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an easy way to change the axes in plot so that the ticks are > marked at intervals of pi/4 or pi/2? > > Thanks, > Maura > > P.S.- If

Re: [sage-edu] Re: computerised exams?

2011-01-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:35 PM, David Joyner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:32 PM, dimpase wrote: >> >> >> On Jan 19, 7:37 pm, David Joyner wrote: >>> Will all these students take the exam in class simultaneously >>> in a large computer lab? >>> >> >> yes, that's the idea (well, we have 3 l

Re: [sage-edu] cube roots in Sage

2014-06-19 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:39 AM, David Smith wrote: > I could live with nthroot -- but is cuberoot (or curt or cbrt) so different > from sqrt? Cubic roots are much less common. They don't even have their own (unparameterized) symbol. I think some kind of a (real?) nth root function makes sense.