[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 12, 2007 10:40 AM, rdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got extremely happy when I've found out about this cool project, > it was time that some powerful 'mathematica-like' open source package > would see the light :-) > > I've installed successfully SAGE on my linux machine in no time bu

[sage-support] Re: SAGE-2.8.13 released!

2007-11-21 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > On Nov 21, 2007 4:04 PM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> Hello folks, >>> 2.8.14 is planned for next week, depending on how close the release >>> will be to Sage Bug Day 6 on November 2nd, 2007 we might do another >> December 2nd? > > Is th

[sage-support] Re: SAGE-2.8.13 released!

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 21, 2007 4:04 PM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > > 2.8.14 is planned for next week, depending on how close the release > > will be to Sage Bug Day 6 on November 2nd, 2007 we might do another > > December 2nd? Is there something wrong

[sage-support] Re: SAGE-2.8.13 released!

2007-11-21 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > Hello folks, > > 2.8.14 is planned for next week, depending on how close the release > will be to Sage Bug Day 6 on November 2nd, 2007 we might do another December 2nd? Jaap --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage

[sage-support] SAGE-2.8.13 released!

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
Hello folks, Sage 2.8.13 has been released. Sources are and binaries should soon be available at http://sagemath.org/download.html This is the first release after the excellent Sage Days 6 in Bristol. We are a couple days late, mostly due to a rocky initial alpha0 that took some t

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 21, 2007 10:04 AM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William wrote: > > > But this might be pretty hard to fix soon. Making sure we > > are well aware of it, though, is critically important if we > > are to push Sage to be truly professional level in > > non-algebraic areas... > >

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
> I don't like that meaning for solve, since it is misleading to me, and > is inconsistent. e.g., what about: > > sage: solve(x^5 + x^3 + 1, x) > [0 == x^5 + x^3 + 1] > > When there is no explicit solution, maxima usually returns something > to explicitly indicate this. > > Also, as a data point,

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-21 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: > But this might be pretty hard to fix soon. Making sure we > are well aware of it, though, is critically important if we > are to push Sage to be truly professional level in > non-algebraic areas... Do you have a rough estimate of how much it might cost to fix this bug (either

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 21, 2007 8:24 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think in the long-run Sage will have to completely implement its own solve > > function, which is better than Maxima's. Thoughts from Ondrej-sympy would > > be > > appreciated here. > > > Isn't solve supposed to return an

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
> I think in the long-run Sage will have to completely implement its own solve > function, which is better than Maxima's. Thoughts from Ondrej-sympy would be > appreciated here. Isn't solve supposed to return an analylic solution only? Is there an analytic solution to this equation? It doesn't

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 20, 2007 12:28 PM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any thoughts on why the solve() function this program > returns an empty list?: > > sage: var('t') > sage: a = .004*(8*e^(-(300*t)) - 8*e^(-(1200*t)))*(72*e^(-(300*t)) > - 1152*e^(-(1200*t))) +.004*(9600*e^(-

[sage-support] Re: Where in SAGE do I find....

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 21, 2007 7:00 AM, a user rwrote wrote: > On a more serious note, I do from time to time sit down with SAGE and > find a handful of issues and report them to someone. But I know how > annoying it is to have someone complaining about your code. So I try > not to do it too often. It's always a

[sage-support] Re: problems with modular symbols over finite fields

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 20, 2007 9:07 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been playing with spaces of modular symbols over finite fields, and > > I ran into two issues that seem to be separate (they're tickets #1231 > > and #1232 now): > > > > 1. doing > > > > ModularSymbols(1,8,0,GF(3)).s

[sage-support] Re: problems with modular symbols over finite fields

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 20, 2007 9:07 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 21, 4:56 am, Alex Ghitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Alex, > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've been playing with spaces of modular symbols over finite fields, and > > I ran into

[sage-support] Re: [sage-newbie] curve length

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 20, 2007 7:37 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm... I just tested it on a newer version, and I get the incorrect > answer. I'll look into it more. > It was similar to but not identical to 987 -- or more, it was that the fix for #987 wasn't sufficient. This is now fixd in