[sage-support] Re: Perhaps a bug

2008-12-13 Thread Dan Drake
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 at 06:52PM -0800, Kwankyu wrote: > -- > | Sage Version 3.2.1, Release Date: 2008-12-01 | > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.| > -

[sage-support] Lines won't show on coordinate axes

2008-12-13 Thread louie
I'm trying to plot a couple of vectors (using arrows) and their projections on the x- and y- axes (using lines): a1=arrow((0,0),(3,1),rgbcolor=(0,1,1)) a2=arrow((0,0),(-3.5,2.5),rgbcolor=(0,0,1)) l1=line([(0,0),(-3.5,0)],rgbcolor=(1,0,0)) l2=line([(0,0),(0,2.5)],rgbcolor=(0,1,0)) p=point((3,1),rg

[sage-support] Re: Perhaps a bug

2008-12-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Kwankyu wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > -- > > | Sage Version 3.2.1, Release Date: 2008-12-01 | > > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.| > > -

[sage-support] Re: Perhaps a bug

2008-12-13 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Kwankyu wrote: > > Hi, > > -- > | Sage Version 3.2.1, Release Date: 2008-12-01 | > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.| > --

[sage-support] Perhaps a bug

2008-12-13 Thread Kwankyu
Hi, -- | Sage Version 3.2.1, Release Date: 2008-12-01 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.| -- sage: 2.2

[sage-support] Re: sage in a software engineering class

2008-12-13 Thread Jason Grout
Sorry for the double post. Thunderbird had an error, so I didn't think that it got posted the first time. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-

[sage-support] sage in a software engineering class

2008-12-13 Thread Jason Grout
I recently have been corresponding with a local computer science professor about contributing some code to Sage, particularly with some students. I wrote the following to try to address how Sage might be used in a software engineering class or as a way to give a independent-study student expe

[sage-support] Sage as an example of software engineering

2008-12-13 Thread Jason Grout
I've been discussing Sage recently with a local computer science professor, who is now interested in contributing some code to Sage. I just sent him a long email explaining some code, but wrote the following paragraph too. I thought people might be interested in commenting (or Harald might b

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > > > On Dec 13, 10:33 am, Jason Grout wrote: >> William Stein wrote: > > > >>> Very few people. I only did it the "wrong" way, because Magma does >>> things the "wrong" way, and David Kohel convinced me to stay >>> consistent with that convention. Sage was originally inte

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 13, 10:33 am, Jason Grout wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > Very few people.  I only did it the "wrong" way, because Magma does > > things the "wrong" way, and David Kohel convinced me to stay > > consistent with that convention.   Sage was originally intended to be > > very similar t

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> mabshoff wrote: >>> On Dec 13, 5:16 am, "Thomas Kahle" wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> > I think that the main reason that Sage uses rows rather than columns > by default (example: eigenvectors are left eigenvectors

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > mabshoff wrote: >> On Dec 13, 5:16 am, "Thomas Kahle" wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I think that the main reason that Sage uses rows rather than columns by default (example: eigenvectors are left eigenvectors by default, i.e. v*A=lamb

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > On Dec 13, 5:16 am, "Thomas Kahle" wrote: > > Hi, > >>> I think that the main reason that Sage uses rows rather than columns >>> by default (example: eigenvectors are left eigenvectors by default, >>> i.e. v*A=lambda*A and not A*v=lambda*v , whereas most -- but not all >>> --

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 13, 5:16 am, "Thomas Kahle" wrote: Hi, > > I think that the main reason that Sage uses rows rather than columns > > by default (example:  eigenvectors are left eigenvectors by default, > > i.e. v*A=lambda*A and not A*v=lambda*v , whereas most -- but not all > > -- linear algebra textbook

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Kahle
> > I think that the main reason that Sage uses rows rather than columns > by default (example: eigenvectors are left eigenvectors by default, > i.e. v*A=lambda*A and not A*v=lambda*v , whereas most -- but not all > -- linear algebra textbooks use the other convention is that that is > the case

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Joyner wrote: > Two comments: > (1) in the theory of linear block codes, a basis of the code is > represented by the rows of the generating martix, by standard > convention. So, from that perspective, the way things are for > lattices makes sens

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread John Cremona
I think that the main reason that Sage uses rows rather than columns by default (example: eigenvectors are left eigenvectors by default, i.e. v*A=lambda*A and not A*v=lambda*v , whereas most -- but not all -- linear algebra textbooks use the other convention is that that is the case in Magma. Th

[sage-support] Re: The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread David Joyner
Two comments: (1) in the theory of linear block codes, a basis of the code is represented by the rows of the generating martix, by standard convention. So, from that perspective, the way things are for lattices makes sense (of course a lattice gives rise to a binary code by reducing mod 2). (2) Ch

[sage-support] The image of a matrix

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm slightly confused about the following computation I tried to do with integer lattices. I typically represent them as a matrix A such that the lattice is the image of that matrix. But somehow the image seems to be different in sage than in

[sage-support] 0.00 correct?

2008-12-13 Thread Rolandb
Hi, Sage: A = matrix([ [-1.0, -1.0, 0.0, 1.0], [1.0, -1.0, -1.0, -2.0] ]) Sage: A.n(2) [-1.0 -1.0 0.00 1.0] [ 1.0 -1.0 -1.0 -2.0] Roland --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send