[sage-support] Is this a bug to everyone else?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
Hi, I've been going through my integral test suite and I've ran across one integral that maxima doesn't like at all, but FriCAS doesn't have a problem with. var('x') f = sin(x)/x g = f.integrate(x) g isn't integrated or recognized as a particular function. However, if I do, h = axiom.integrate(

[sage-support] Re: sage and pil and tkinter?

2008-12-04 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 4, 5:28 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > A related question to the Sage+Tck/Tk issue: > > After installing the Tck/Tk development libraries and reinstalling > Sage's Python, I installed Sage's PIL optional package. > It compiled fine for the most part but the tkinte

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:47:22AM -0800, Mike Hansen wrote: >> I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put some improvements up at >> http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. >> h6.eigenvalues() took 0.11 se

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:47:22AM -0800, Mike Hansen wrote: >>> I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put some improvements up at >>> http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included s

[sage-support] sage and pil and tkinter?

2008-12-04 Thread David Joyner
Hi: A related question to the Sage+Tck/Tk issue: After installing the Tck/Tk development libraries and reinstalling Sage's Python, I installed Sage's PIL optional package. It compiled fine for the most part but the tkinter connection is missing (it's a file called _imagingtk.so in site-packages/

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:47:22AM -0800, Mike Hansen wrote: >> I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put some improvements up at >> http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. >> h6.e

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:55:37AM -0800, mabshoff wrote: > Can you provide us with the examples that crash? We would certainly be > interested in fixing them. Yes, I will definitely send bug reports to sage-devel in future. Le me understand a bit of what we are doing though so as to not was

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi, On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:47:22AM -0800, Mike Hansen wrote: > I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put some improvements up at > http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. > h6.eigenvalues() took 0.11 seconds to run on my machine. It looks > like everything you'

[sage-support] Re: divisors sorted

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:31 PM, pong wrote: > Robert, thanks for clearing that up for me. > > However, I think it's still desirable to leave "unsorted" as an > option, even though as you said now sorting doesn't take up the > majority of the time. For example, it will be a waste of computing > time

[sage-support] Re: divisors sorted

2008-12-04 Thread pong
Robert, thanks for clearing that up for me. However, I think it's still desirable to leave "unsorted" as an option, even though as you said now sorting doesn't take up the majority of the time. For example, it will be a waste of computing time if divisors is followed by some operations that may s

[sage-support] Re: divisors sorted

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:35 PM, pong wrote: > In SAGE 3.2.1 , the docstring of divisors says: > > Definition: divisors(n) > Docstring: > > Returns a list of all positive integer divisors > of the nonzero integer n. > > A second parameter may be passed to surpress sorting >

[sage-support] divisors sorted

2008-12-04 Thread pong
In SAGE 3.2.1 , the docstring of divisors says: Definition: divisors(n) Docstring: Returns a list of all positive integer divisors of the nonzero integer n. A second parameter may be passed to surpress sorting of the list (as ordering the list can be more tim

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: >> Should we phase GSL out of numerical_integral too? Should we replace it >> with the equivalent scipy call (which would make it massively shorter >> and simpler)? > > Yes, it is very tempting to do so. One thing is that each function > evaluation > could in theory be mu

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Jason Grout wrote: >>> Tim Lahey wrote: >> Jason > Is there an easy way to get the i

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Tim Lahey wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:14 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> It would be better to call the numerical_integral function >> that is already in Sage, which Josh Kantor wrote, which >> is pretty sophisticated. It uses GSL and a C callback function. >> Then improve the implementation

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Jason Grout wrote: >> >>> Tim Lahey wrote: > Jason Is there an easy way to get the integrand, variable and bounds out of the integral? That way, if one has trie

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:14 PM, William Stein wrote: It would be better to call the numerical_integral function that is already in Sage, which Josh Kantor wrote, which is pretty sophisticated. It uses GSL and a C callback function. Then improve the implementation of that function to also use scip

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> >> Tim Lahey wrote: >>> Jason >>> >>> Is there an easy way to get the integrand, variable and bounds out of the >>> integral? That way, if one has tried to analyticall

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Jason Grout wrote: Tim Lahey wrote: Jason Is there an easy way to get the integrand, variable and bounds out of the integral? That way, if one has tried to analytically evaluate it, they can pull it out and try numerically evaluating it easily. In fact, i

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Tim Lahey wrote: > >> Jason > > Is there an easy way to get the integrand, variable and bounds out of the > integral? That way, if one has tried to analytically evaluate it, they > can pull it out and try numerically evaluating it easily. In fact, it > probably could be done automatically. > s

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Jason Grout wrote: Robert Dodier wrote: On Dec 4, 2:04 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sage: f.n() and get back a floating point number. This is surprisingly not implemented in Sage, but it isn't. (That's basically because Maxima itself doesn't s

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Robert Dodier wrote: > On Dec 4, 2:04 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> sage: f.n() >> >> and get back a floating point number. This is surprisingly not >> implemented in Sage, but it isn't. >> (That's basically because Maxima itself doesn't seem to have such >> functionality.)

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Dodier
On Dec 4, 2:04 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sage: f.n() > > and get back a floating point number. This is surprisingly not > implemented in Sage, but it isn't. > (That's basically because Maxima itself doesn't seem to have such > functionality.) I'm guessing that f.n() just

[sage-support] Re: Groups, Rings, Fields?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Jeffrey Straszheim wrote: Tim Lahey wrote: Oh, thanks a lot. I'll look for it. I prefer applied math texts so I definitely appreciate the recommendation. I don't want mislead you. It is still a pure math text. Abstract algebra, which is where you'll find covera

[sage-support] Re: Groups, Rings, Fields?

2008-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Straszheim
Tim Lahey wrote: > Oh, thanks a lot. I'll look for it. I prefer applied math texts so I > definitely appreciate the recommendation. > I don't want mislead you. It is still a pure math text. Abstract algebra, which is where you'll find coverage of groups, rings, and fields, is usually pretty fa

[sage-support] Re: Some Math Resources that may be of interest

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:45 AM, David Joyner wrote: Looks like the Sage tutorial except it has a lot of exercises and statistical examples. There are also some cool dynamical systems examples. I agree, that the tutorial at least needs more statisitcs. I'm not how sure the new documentation sys

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: Good to know. Is there a way for Sage to do a reset, along the lines of a MATLAB clear or a Maple restart? That is, forgets all expressions and variables as if the session was brand new? Yes

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:18 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> This is probably off topic, but you can always get any Sage global >> variable you're used to by doing sage.all.varname. For example: >> >> sage: I = 5 >> sage: I >> 5 >> sage: sage.all.I >> I

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:18 PM, William Stein wrote: This is probably off topic, but you can always get any Sage global variable you're used to by doing sage.all.varname. For example: sage: I = 5 sage: I 5 sage: sage.all.I I Good to know. Is there a way for Sage to do a reset, along the lines

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Jason Grout wrote: Tim Lahey wrote: The only problem I see with this is that it doesn't free up the original. One reason for changing the symbolic I, is to be able to use it for other variables. Sure it does: sage: _j = I sage: _j.rename("_j") sage: var("I") I

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Lahey wrote: >> >> The only problem I see with this is that it doesn't free up the >> original. One >> reason for changing the symbolic I, is to be able to use it for other >> variables. > > > Sure it does: > > sage: _j

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Tim Lahey wrote: > > The only problem I see with this is that it doesn't free up the > original. One > reason for changing the symbolic I, is to be able to use it for other > variables. Sure it does: sage: _j = I sage: _j.rename("_j") sage: var("I") I sage: type(I) sage: I^2 I^2 sage: type(

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > > In case my response above was ambiguous, I'm very much in favor of their > being a way to change how the symbolic I prints. Wait a minute, I just > realized > that I designed and imlemented a very nice way to do this sort of thing over > THREE YEARS ago, but nobody ever

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:50 PM, William Stein wrote: In case my response above was ambiguous, I'm very much in favor of their being a way to change how the symbolic I prints. Wait a minute, I just realized that I designed and imlemented a very nice way to do this sort of thing over THREE YEA

[sage-support] Re: number field question

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Alex Raichev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your help, Carl. Where did you find the documentation for > the command number_field_elements_from_algebraics(c)? I'm guessing Carl knew about that command since he implemented it. Typing sage: help(sage.rin

[sage-support] Re: Problem in multivariate integration in Sage

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 3:07 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you think it would be better if instead of >> >> sage: print integrate(integrate(f,y,x^3,x^0.5),y,0,1) >> ... Is x positive or negative? >> >> one saw: >> ... Is

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:33 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Tim Lahey wrote: Hi, Thanks. I was kind of hoping for something le

[sage-support] Re: number field question

2008-12-04 Thread Alex Raichev
Thanks for your help, Carl. Where did you find the documentation for the command number_field_elements_from_algebraics(c)? Yes, i'd find it very useful to have ideal and variety computations over QQbar implemented. I don't have the know-how or the time at present to do this myself, but i am

[sage-support] Re: Problem in multivariate integration in Sage

2008-12-04 Thread Vijay
On Dec 4, 3:07 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you think it would be better if instead of > > sage: print integrate(integrate(f,y,x^3,x^0.5),y,0,1) > ... Is  x  positive or negative? > > one saw: > ... Is  x  positive or negative?  (Try using the assume command.) I think the l

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:33 PM, William Stein wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Tim Lahey wrote: Hi, Thanks. I was kind of hoping for something less drastic, but that works. In Maple there is just a variable you can set which controls things, so yo

[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Lahey wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks. I was kind of hoping for something less drastic, >> but that works. In Maple there is just a variable you can >> set which controls things, so you can do it on a per script >> basis. >>

[sage-support] Re: Problem in multivariate integration in Sage

2008-12-04 Thread Vijay
Dr. Stein: The assume() command worked. Thanks. Tim: Thanks for your reply, too. I noticed that I was integrating wrt y twice after I sent off the email, but the result was still the same if you change the outermost integration to be wrt x. Thanks On Dec 4, 3:07 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROT

[sage-support] Re: Problem in multivariate integration in Sage

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:09 PM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may be a bug in Maxima, because it looks like it can do the indefinite integral. However, any integral that requires feedback from the user during the integration,

[sage-support] Re: Problem in multivariate integration in Sage

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may be a bug in Maxima, because it looks like it can do the indefinite > integral. However, any integral that requires feedback from the user during > the integration, > won't work from Sage. This has caused me problems

[sage-support] Re: Problem in multivariate integration in Sage

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi: I am trying to evaluate a double integral (since I cannot put > LaTeX, the 'S' below > stands for the integral sign:) > > 1 sqrt(x) >S S 4xy - y^3 dy dx > 0 x^3 > > This is what I put into

[sage-support] Re: Problem in multivariate integration in Sage

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Vijay wrote: Hi: I am trying to evaluate a double integral (since I cannot put LaTeX, the 'S' below stands for the integral sign:) 1 sqrt(x) S S 4xy - y^3 dy dx 0 x^3 This is what I put into sage: sage: var('x,y') (x, y) sage: f=

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Stan Schymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to evaluate a symbolic equation containing an integral > numerically: > ((integrate(250*cos(pi*x/180)^1.8 + 170.35,x,0,18)/a_v)(a_v=1)).n() > does not work. Is there a way of doing this? The

[sage-support] Problem in multivariate integration in Sage

2008-12-04 Thread Vijay
Hi: I am trying to evaluate a double integral (since I cannot put LaTeX, the 'S' below stands for the integral sign:) 1 sqrt(x) S S 4xy - y^3 dy dx 0 x^3 This is what I put into sage: sage: var('x,y') (x, y) sage: f=4*x*y-y^3 sage: print f

[sage-support] Re: sage -upgrade problem

2008-12-04 Thread prof
Prof. William, 1. removing the file sage-flags-txt: ./sage -- | Sage Version 3.2.1, Release Date: 2008-12-01 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.| -

[sage-support] Re: sage -upgrade problem

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:39 AM, prof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > I have installed SAGE from source files (sage-3.2.tar). Everything > works ok! > Then, I issued > > sage -upgrade > > and I have this screen (after upgrade to 3.2.1): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/sage-3.2$ ./sage > -

[sage-support] Re: sage and tkinter?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:07 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:58 AM, mabshoff >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Dec 3, 11:56 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[sage-support] sage -upgrade problem

2008-12-04 Thread prof
Hello! I have installed SAGE from source files (sage-3.2.tar). Everything works ok! Then, I issued sage -upgrade and I have this screen (after upgrade to 3.2.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/sage-3.2$ ./sage -- | Sage Version 3

[sage-support] Ideals not working in extension fields

2008-12-04 Thread Dror Speiser
There is a bug when trying to create ideals in extension fields. The following returns an error: x = polygen(QQ) K. = NumberField(x^2-7) L. = K.extension(x^2-13) L.ideal(b) # TypeError: Unable to coerce -13/2*a + 13/2 to a rational This has been tested on 3.2 and 2.8.1, both return exactly the

[sage-support] Re: sage and tkinter?

2008-12-04 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:58 AM, mabshoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Dec 3, 11:56 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I wonder if this should be mentioned in install.tex somewhere? >> >> I d

[sage-support] Re: Error when launching Sage

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:16 AM, adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I got the same problem. In ubuntu amd 64 hardy, I got the following > missing: > > pebs ssse3 pge clflush sep syscall vme tsc est vmx xtpr nx > constant_tsc pat bts lm msr fpu fxsr tm pae arch_perfmon acpi cx8 mce > de mca pse

[sage-support] Re: sage and tkinter?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:58 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 3, 11:56 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wonder if this should be mentioned in install.tex somewhere? > > I don't see any reason. Getting some extension $FOO to work will > greatly depend on the

[sage-support] Re: Is interact partly broken in 3.1.4 (or before)?

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:52 PM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Weirdly, I cannot now reproduce the disappearing slider issue, even >> though it was consistent a few days ago with 3.1.4+. If it crops up >> again I will report back. >> > > Okay, I can replicate this again - with a di

[sage-support] Re: passing arguments to python functions in numerical_integral, plot etc.

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:15 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: This requires good working knowledge of python style, which is even

[sage-support] Re: passing arguments to python functions in numerical_integral, plot etc.

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:15 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >>> >> >> This requires good working knowledge of python style, which is even >> rarer than good working knowledge of English :). >> >> Of all the options, I think passing a

[sage-support] Re: passing arguments to python functions in numerical_integral, plot etc.

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:15 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >>> >>> This requires good working knowledge of python style, which is even >>> rarer than

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Mike Hansen wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If anyone has the time to look at and discuss some of these issues >> that will be much appreciated, and assist in the growth of using SAGE >> to teach in this institute! > > I don't hav

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Mike Hansen wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If anyone has the time to look at and discuss some of these issues >> that will be much appreciated, and assist in the growth of using SAGE >> to teach in this institute! > > I don't hav

[sage-support] Re: A limit question.

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Dodier
adrian wrote: > sage: limit(x*0,x=oo) > 0 Looks right to me. Maybe you agree, I can't tell from your message. > sage: limit(x*oo,x=0) > 0 > > This seems wrong to me; and probably the problem is that x*oo should > not be allowed to begin with... Seems wrong to me too. Since Sage calls Maxima to

[sage-support] Re: Ideas for Sage Notebook functionality?

2008-12-04 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: >> I agree with you that we could (and should?) do a lot to support >> graphics as an integral part of calculations. I've spent some time >> thinking about it. If we used TinyMCE or some other editor, I

[sage-support] Re: Some Math Resources that may be of interest

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Lahey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:45 AM, David Joyner wrote: Looks like the Sage tutorial except it has a lot of exercises and statistical examples. There are also some cool dynamical systems examples. I agree, that the tutorial at least needs more statisitcs. I'm not how sure the new documentation sys

[sage-support] Re: Some Math Resources that may be of interest

2008-12-04 Thread David Joyner
Looks like the Sage tutorial except it has a lot of exercises and statistical examples. There are also some cool dynamical systems examples. I agree, that the tutorial at least needs more statisitcs. I'm not how sure the new documentation system rest/sphynx handles graphics. If graphics are no pr

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 4, 1:47 am, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Hi Jan, > Someone is using SAGE in teaching a Quantum Mechanics course > at the institute where I work, and we want to make sure we > are starting off on the right foot. Cool. Mike answered your other questions, so: > 3. The c

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Jan, On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone has the time to look at and discuss some of these issues > that will be much appreciated, and assist in the growth of using SAGE > to teach in this institute! I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put

[sage-support] First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi Someone is using SAGE in teaching a Quantum Mechanics course at the institute where I work, and we want to make sure we are starting off on the right foot. All SAGE installs are 3.2 built from source. All students have a local SAGE instance on a P4, 512M, Ubuntu box. Some of the tests run ar

[sage-support] Re: Ideas for Sage Notebook functionality?

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: > I agree with you that we could (and should?) do a lot to support > graphics as an integral part of calculations. I've spent some time > thinking about it. If we used TinyMCE or some other editor, I suppose > we could have images in the input code. See > http://tinymce.m