[sage-support] Re: integer lattice algorithms

2008-01-16 Thread William Stein
On Jan 16, 2008 4:52 PM, Ursula Whitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrey Novoseltsev and I have been talking about computing Hom(L,Z)/L > for some nondegenerate indefinite (mixed signature) integer lattices L. > Hom(L,Z)/L is implemented for positive *definite* lattices in Magma-- > last tim

[sage-support] Re: creating users for a sage notebook

2008-01-16 Thread William Stein
On Jan 16, 2008 2:26 PM, William F Hammond > wrote: > William -- > > You may recall that we met briefly in San Diego. > > After seeing Sage there, I've moved to set it up, and I'm rather > pleased with what I've seen so far. > > I gather that it's supposed to be possible to associate > users other

[sage-support] Re: Doc Day 1 announcement: January 17th, 2008, 9am-5pm PST

2008-01-16 Thread bill purvis
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Ted Kosan wrote: > > > I have 2 documentation requests: > > 1) If someone could add documentation to each of the javascript > functions in the notebook, that would be helpful. > > 2) Add a short .txt file in each of the directories in the Sage > distribution whic

[sage-support] Re: Elementary symmetric function expansion (bug?)

2008-01-16 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 16, 10:30 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Jan 16, 10:23 pm, BFJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > First of all, I don't know whether to post about this here, or file a > > bug report, or something else. I'm new to community developed > > software. Let me

[sage-support] Re: Elementary symmetric function expansion (bug?)

2008-01-16 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, It was an "on purpose" fix :) I've added another doctest at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1797 . --Mike On Jan 16, 2008 1:30 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 16, 10:23 pm, BFJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > First of all, I don't know whether to p

[sage-support] Re: Elementary symmetric function expansion (bug?)

2008-01-16 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 16, 10:23 pm, BFJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I don't know whether to post about this here, or file a > bug report, or something else. I'm new to community developed > software. Let me know if this isn't the right place to report the > following. > > I'm using sage

[sage-support] Elementary symmetric function expansion (bug?)

2008-01-16 Thread BFJ
Hi, First of all, I don't know whether to post about this here, or file a bug report, or something else. I'm new to community developed software. Let me know if this isn't the right place to report the following. I'm using sage 2.9.2 and 2.9.3 on different (both PPC) machines, both running OS X

[sage-support] Re: Doc Day 1 announcement: January 17th, 2008, 9am-5pm PST

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Zimmermann
> I have 2 documentation requests: > [...] I have a 3rd one: I am really missing a "SEE ALSO" field (or whatever you want to call it) in the online documentation. It would be quite useful to point users to related commands. Paul --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to t

[sage-support] Re: Doc Day 1 announcement: January 17th, 2008, 9am-5pm PST

2008-01-16 Thread Ted Kosan
Michael wrote: > after doing 8 Bug Days the time has come to spend some more time on > the documentation, which also needs a lot of work. So after some > discussion in IRC we decided to get together in IRC at the above date > and time and work on the documentation. Since we have never done a doc

[sage-support] Re: jmol and Camino

2008-01-16 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 16, 8:55 pm, "Hector Villafuerte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hi Hector > I get this error on Camino (... don't ask): I am afraid to ask why :) Which camino release are you running? The latest was released on December 5, 2007, so I must say that I am suprised that the Camino pro

[sage-support] jmol and Camino

2008-01-16 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I get this error on Camino (... don't ask): ReferenceError: _jmolInitCheck is not defined While trying to plot this: var('v') f1 = (x, x*sin(v), x*cos(v)) parametric_plot3d(f1, (x,0,5), (v,0,2*pi)) I must say that this works great in Firefox and Safari, I just thought you would like to kno

[sage-support] Re: Doc Day 1 announcement: January 17th, 2008, 9am-5pm PST

2008-01-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
Someone at the joint meetings looked over the tutorial and came back the next day with a suggestion: he wanted a list of all the pre- defined words in sage, e.g. list, Random, RationalField, etc. I told him it would be a long list, and showed him the auto-completion. He said maybe a short list o

[sage-support] Doc Day 1 announcement: January 17th, 2008, 9am-5pm PST

2008-01-16 Thread mabshoff
Hello folks, after doing 8 Bug Days the time has come to spend some more time on the documentation, which also needs a lot of work. So after some discussion in IRC we decided to get together in IRC at the above date and time and work on the documentation. Since we have never done a doc day it isn

[sage-support] Re: python question

2008-01-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
The von Rossum tutorial is definitely the place to start. For some reason I don't really like the O'Reilly books on python, even though I am usually a fan. I found Core Python Programming by Wesley Chun quite helpful and easy to read; I suppose most sage developers might consider it dumbed-down

[sage-support] Re: problem with plot3d on ubuntu 64bit

2008-01-16 Thread David Joyner
On Jan 15, 2008 9:20 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I have an old 64 bit machine with 64bit ubuntu fiesty fawn loaded on it. > I just noticed a problem with plot3d on it (plot3d runs fine on my > intel macbook): > > In sage 2.9.3: > sage: x = var("x") > sage: y = var("y") >

[sage-support] Re: problem with plot3d on ubuntu 64bit

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Timothy Clemans wrote: > I never got Java to work period in Ubuntu for 64bit with the Firefox > built for it. I later reinstalled Ubuntu but the 32bit edition, and > Java worked fine in the notebook. Hi, while Java from the browser is a pain in 64-bit Linux (there is

[sage-support] Re: associativity of addition on ell. curves

2008-01-16 Thread achrzesz
Dear David, one can construct the apropriate quotient P=QQ['a,b,x1,x2,x3'] K.=FractionField(P) R.=K['y1,y2,y3'] I = R.ideal(y1^2 - x1^3 - a*x1 - b, y2^2 - x2^3 - a*x2 - b, y3^2 - x3^3 - a*x3 - b) S=quotient(R,I) sage: S Quotient of Multivariate Polynomial Ring in y1, y2, y3 over Fraction Field o

[sage-support] Re: Problems with standalone python/sage scripts

2008-01-16 Thread Georg Grafendorfer
> I thought I have seen this before and the issue was a buggy env, i.e. > > Maybe we can add some > script that does the equivalent of "sage -python", maybe "local/bin/ > sage-python" does that job, but I assume the env isn't set up > properly. #!/usr/bin/sage-python works, i mentioned this in

[sage-support] Re: problem with plot3d on ubuntu 64bit

2008-01-16 Thread Timothy Clemans
I never got Java to work period in Ubuntu for 64bit with the Firefox built for it. I later reinstalled Ubuntu but the 32bit edition, and Java worked fine in the notebook. On Jan 15, 6:20 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I have an old 64 bit machine with 64bit ubuntu fiesty