[sage-support] Re: no sage.bin

2008-03-28 Thread toothpaste
Well, sage has been installing for the last six or more hours, so that's positive. Looks like it may work. Wow, it takes a long time to install. What an awesome, awesome thing. I'm so glad that this software finally exists. Seriously. I have been wishing for exactly this software since I was

[sage-support] Re: Interact

2008-03-28 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I added a page to the wiki for coordinating @interact suggestions, and > linked to it from the demo page: > > http://www.sagemath.org:9001/interactSuggestions > > I am still figuring out what I can do, what I can

[sage-support] Re: Interact

2008-03-28 Thread Marshall Hampton
I added a page to the wiki for coordinating @interact suggestions, and linked to it from the demo page: http://www.sagemath.org:9001/interactSuggestions I am still figuring out what I can do, what I can work around, and what is a real problem, so I think it is too early to start making trac tick

[sage-support] Re: Interact

2008-03-28 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:21 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You've definitely laid the groundwork here, maybe I'll be one of the > > people to try to improve it. Here's an example session, I think it >

[sage-support] Re: Inter-disciplinary applications of Sage (biopython, etc.)

2008-03-28 Thread David Joyner
I don't if you call coding theory "other than math" but there are developers who are not in math departments (eg, CJ, a GUAVA developer is in the "Computing, Communications & Electronics" dept). On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm giving a

[sage-support] Re: Interact

2008-03-28 Thread William Stein
Robert, I think I understand what you mean now. There's no way within an interact to somehow set the state of the controls. They are stuck at whatever state they were when you last pressed a button or set a menu item. There are still many limitations to interact; it certainly doesn't do everyth

[sage-support] Inter-disciplinary applications of Sage (biopython, etc.)

2008-03-28 Thread Jason Grout
Hi all, I'm giving a colloquium talk on Sage in a week to a broad audience of science-related faculty at a liberal arts college. I'd like to point out some applications of Sage in things other than math, like using the biopython project, possibly R, etc. Does anyone have some good material

[sage-support] Re: Interact

2008-03-28 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, > > Just playing around with @interact a little, and I have a basic > question that isn't answered by the examples on the wiki, or as far as > I can tell the docs in the source itself. Maybe I asked in Arizona,

[sage-support] Re: Sage in Windows

2008-03-28 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Lars Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > at the moment I am thinking about a related question and I came up > with this suggestions. They are for windows in general and not for > IDLE. My preferred suggestion is 3.) . But I didn't try any of

[sage-support] Re: Sage in Windows

2008-03-28 Thread Lars Fischer
Hello Chris, at the moment I am thinking about a related question and I came up with this suggestions. They are for windows in general and not for IDLE. My preferred suggestion is 3.) . But I didn't try any of them, since I am using linux. My suggestions are : 1.) inside vmware apt-get emacs + x

[sage-support] Re: Sage in Windows

2008-03-28 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:50 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mar 28, 5:26 pm, "Fabio Tonti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really don't know much about vmware, but could this URL > (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/55242) help? It describes sharing files > > with vmwar

[sage-support] Re: typesetting matrices

2008-03-28 Thread Marshall Hampton
Thank you!! That was exactly what I needed to know. I should have looked more carefully at your example. -M. Hampton On Mar 28, 12:12 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marshall Hampton wrote: > > Thanks for the quick response, but I'm not sure you understand my > > question: I can do

[sage-support] Re: typesetting matrices

2008-03-28 Thread Jason Grout
Marshall Hampton wrote: > Thanks for the quick response, but I'm not sure you understand my > question: I can do one matrix at a time, I want the entire equation > displayed on one line in matrix form. I can do that cutting and > pasting the latex representations, and then displaying them with >

[sage-support] Re: typesetting matrices

2008-03-28 Thread Marshall Hampton
Thanks for the quick response, but I'm not sure you understand my question: I can do one matrix at a time, I want the entire equation displayed on one line in matrix form. I can do that cutting and pasting the latex representations, and then displaying them with %latex, but that would require a s

[sage-support] Re: typesetting matrices

2008-03-28 Thread Jason Grout
Marshall Hampton wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple task I'd like to do, and I suspect that someone out > there already knows how to do it: > I'd like to display a matrix factorization using jsmath/latex. For > example, if I do something like > > import scipy.linalg > my_mat = matrix(RR,2,2,[1,0,

[sage-support] Re: Tutorial difficulties

2008-03-28 Thread Jim Clark
Thanks for the help, David. The solution is quite simple: y = k1 e^(ix) + k2 e^(-x) Needless to say, it is quite the algebraic challenge to verify that sage's result (maxima's result?) is the same as this simple expression. Jim On Mar 28, 2008, at 9:17 AM, David Joyner wrote: > I haven't check

[sage-support] typesetting matrices

2008-03-28 Thread Marshall Hampton
Hi, I have a simple task I'd like to do, and I suspect that someone out there already knows how to do it: I'd like to display a matrix factorization using jsmath/latex. For example, if I do something like import scipy.linalg my_mat = matrix(RR,2,2,[1,0,1,1]) u,s,vh = scipy.linalg.svd(my_mat.num

[sage-support] Re: Sage in Windows

2008-03-28 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 28, 5:26 pm, "Fabio Tonti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really don't know much about vmware, but could this URL > (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/55242) help? It describes sharing files > with vmware using simple network folders. Yeah, shared folders should work. Another possibi

[sage-support] Re: no sage.bin

2008-03-28 Thread toothpaste
William -- Yes. I will try a 100% fresh install with 2GB disk space, Michael -- Hmm.. I may have accidentally posted the install.log from the first install (before I requested extra memory from the host). Well, anyway. I will do a fresh install as william recommended and if that doesn't work,

[sage-support] Re: Sage in Windows

2008-03-28 Thread Fabio Tonti
I really don't know much about vmware, but could this URL ( http://communities.vmware.com/thread/55242) help? It describes sharing files with vmware using simple network folders. Another possible way: use a usb-pendrive. Could this work? On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Chris Kurth <[EMAIL PROTE

[sage-support] Re: Tutorial difficulties

2008-03-28 Thread David Joyner
I haven't checked if this is correct or not, but hope it helps: sage: t = var('t') sage: x = function('x', t) sage: de = lambda y: diff(y,t,t) + (1-I)*diff(y,t) - I*y sage: desolve(de(x(t)),[x,t]) '%e^((%i-1)*t/2)*(%k1*sin(sqrt(-4*%i-(1-%i)^2)*t/2)+%k2*cos(sqrt(-4*%i-(1-%i)^2)*t/2))' On Fri, M

[sage-support] Sage in Windows

2008-03-28 Thread Chris Kurth
I'm trying to use the current version of Sage in Windows (I was using an older version in cygwin). I'm using the VMware image and putty to access it with ssh. Everything works fine except I'd like to be able to edit my code directly from Windows (I'm using IDLE), and I don't know an easy way to tr

[sage-support] Re: Tutorial difficulties

2008-03-28 Thread Jim Clark
Thanks for the help provided so far, but I have encountered a new problem that I've been unable to solve: a second-order DE with constant but *complex* coefficients: y'' + (1 - i)y' - iy = 0 sage: maxima.de_solve('derivative(y,x,2) + (1 - i) * derivative(y,x) - i * y = 0', ['x','y']) yiel

[sage-support] Re: random questions

2008-03-28 Thread kcrisman
> > Your best is to use Sage's actual polynomial objects instead of > symbolic expressions (if you're just interested in polynomial > expressions). > > sage: R. = ZZ[] > sage: a = y^5 - y - 12 > sage: a.roots(RR) > [(1.68758384186451, 1)] > sage: a.roots(CC) > > [(1.68758384186451, 1), >  (0.47252

[sage-support] Re: HELLO

2008-03-28 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 28, 11:19 am, khresta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My install.log Hi, what you pasted below isn't your install.log, but it seems to be the configure log from GAP. I also don't see what your question is. Did GAP fail to build? Cheers, Michael --~--~-~--~~~

[sage-support] HELLO

2008-03-28 Thread khresta
My install.log This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by configure, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was $ ./configure --prefix=/home/was/build/sage-2.10.3/l

[sage-support] Re: Curve Quotient

2008-03-28 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Ricardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to compute the quotient of a curve by a finite group of > automorphism? > Which curve? Over what field? Which automorphism group? William --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to

[sage-support] Curve Quotient

2008-03-28 Thread Ricardo
Is there a way to compute the quotient of a curve by a finite group of automorphism? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit th

[sage-support] Re: Handling Octave functions with multiple return values?

2008-03-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the recommended way to handle Octave functions with multiple > return values in Sage? I wrote the Sage/Octave interface, but I didn't think of everything. In particular, I completely forgot about multiple return val