[sage-support] Re: n() method for rational numbers

2007-08-31 Thread Ted Kosan
I am using 2.8.3 and the N() method is working well for me for rational numbers. However, I am now thinking that a lower case n() would be better after all because it conforms to the Python method naming convention. When a = 1/2... a. is entered in the notebook, the N() method is the only meth

[sage-support] Fwd: Sage's Bug Day 2 announcement/ideas

2007-08-31 Thread William Stein
(This is really from Michael Abshoff.) Hello folks, Sage's Bug Day 2 is almost upon us -- It will happen on Friday September 7th, 2007. We usually start about 10am pacific standard time, but feel free to drop by the IRC channel #sage-devel any time. Last time the bug fixing went on for 16 hour

[sage-support] Re: numpy.sin() problem

2007-08-31 Thread William
Hi, This is an issue with the preparser and numpy not playing well together. E.g., if you do this it works fine: sage: preparser(False) sage: import numpy sage: j=numpy.complex(0,1) sage: num_points=50 sage: u=numpy.zeros((num_points,num_points),dtype=float) sage: pi_c=float(pi) sage: x=numpy.r

[sage-support] Re: Installation of sage version 2.8.2 on Ubuntu

2007-08-31 Thread William Stein
On 8/30/07, Trebor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear sage-support, I downloaded and installed sage-2.8.2.ubuntu-32bit- > i686-Linux.tar.gz on my ubuntu version 6.06 LTS linux box and when I > attempt to run it I got the message below. I have checked and I have > GLIBC version 2.3.6 installed. Could

[sage-support] SAGE-2.8.3 released!

2007-08-31 Thread William Stein
Hello, I've released SAGE-2.8.3. Source and binaries for everything but vmware are posted here: http://sagemath.org/ And you can (probably) do "sage -upgrade". (The vmware binary will appear shortly.) IMPORTANT NOTE: I just realized that SAGE-2.8.3 includes some pre-compiled java .jar fi

[sage-support] Re: Installation of sage version 2.8.2 on Ubuntu

2007-08-31 Thread David Joyner
Just an idea but have you tried compiling the source code of SAGE? The page http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/inst/node5.html might be of help if there are problems. +++ On 8/31/07, Trebor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear sage-support, I downloaded and insta