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2009-05-16 Thread tony glaser
Unsubscribe   Unsubscribe address not working. Please remove me. Tony Glaser 613.808.8413 www.technicallytony.com --- On Sat, 5/16/09, Paul Sargent wrote: From: Paul Sargent Subject: [sage-support] Re: Downloading binaries or source to completion To: "sage-support@googlegroups.com" Cc: "sage

[sage-support] Re: Downloading binaries or source to completion

2009-05-16 Thread Paul Sargent
Adding a -c flag to wget will make it continue an aborted download if the server will let it. It'll probably still fail but at least you can recover. On 17 May 2009, at 01:04, kilucas wrote: > > It took me 6 attempts to retrieve the latest Windows binary from > across a number of mirrors

[sage-support] Downloading binaries or source to completion

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
It took me 6 attempts to retrieve the latest Windows binary from across a number of mirrors and I'm now running into the same problem trying to retrieve the source of 3.4.2 and 3.4.1 using wget ( I don't know how to detect or use mirrors by this method). In all cases the download seems to freeze a

[sage-support] Re: Composite sorting

2009-05-16 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Stochastix wrote: > > I have a list of 2-vectors > > (a1,a2), (b1,b2) , ... > > I want to sort the vectors according to the following rule > > (a1,a2) < (b1,b2) iff a1+b2 < a2+b1 > > > Is there a way to do that using the "sort" function ? Yes and I think this is

[sage-support] Re: About Hilbert transform

2009-05-16 Thread Claude
Thanks for your proposals, First of all, I should precise I'm new to sage ... I would like, as a first step, and with a sage script , define h as a fonctional of f and variables t and s, as h = function('hilbert',function(f),t,s); somewhat like : sage: t,eps,s=var('t,eps,s') sage:f=funct

[sage-support] Re: Reaching the sage command line

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
On May 16, 8:19 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:14 PM, kilucas wrote: > > > On May 16, 8:04 pm, William Stein wrote: > >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:07 AM, kilucas wrote: > > >> > On May 16, 2:32 pm, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM, kilucas

[sage-support] Composite sorting

2009-05-16 Thread Stochastix
I have a list of 2-vectors (a1,a2), (b1,b2) , ... I want to sort the vectors according to the following rule (a1,a2) < (b1,b2) iff a1+b2 < a2+b1 Is there a way to do that using the "sort" function ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-support] Re: Reaching the sage command line

2009-05-16 Thread William Stein
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:14 PM, kilucas wrote: > > > > On May 16, 8:04 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:07 AM, kilucas wrote: >> >> > On May 16, 2:32 pm, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM, kilucas >> >> wrote: >> >> >> > I'm using the VMWare Pl

[sage-support] Re: Reaching the sage command line

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
On May 16, 8:04 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:07 AM, kilucas wrote: > > > On May 16, 2:32 pm, William Stein wrote: > >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM, kilucas wrote: > > >> > I'm using the VMWare Player v2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on a LAN-connected > >> > laptop with no f

[sage-support] What's the best way to check binary compatibility?

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
It's beginning to look as if I've been trying to fix a sage implementation on a PC with a CPU that's incompatible with the VMWare binary of 3.4.1. But it's taken quite a bit of time to reach that conclusion (including that of kind folk on this forum). If I'm to try to implement sage on another PC

[sage-support] Re: Reaching the sage command line

2009-05-16 Thread William Stein
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:07 AM, kilucas wrote: > > > > On May 16, 2:32 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM, kilucas wrote: >> >> > I'm using the VMWare Player v2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on a LAN-connected >> > laptop with no firewall and am confused about how to reach the sa

[sage-support] Re: Logging in to a browser session

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
Thanks Serge. I think my problem lies in finding or recognising the right kind of command line. I actually tried notebook() in a worksheet on www.sagenb.org and that did indeed ask for an admin password as you suggest. But I can't find any way to run the same command in my VMWare envioronment. I'

[sage-support] Re: Multi-user server on Windows

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
On May 12, 3:35 pm, kilucas wrote: > On May 12, 2:52 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > > > > > > > kilucas wrote: > > > Marik > > > > Thanks for the reminder and I had indeed spotted these threads. I'm > > > guessing that I'd run the Sage server under VMWare primarily just to > > > get it to run on Win

[sage-support] Re: Logging in to a browser session

2009-05-16 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
You've got to have access to the command line. The way I start notebook server: I call sage from command line. then under sage promt I type: notebook() It then creates user admin and promts for the password. that is it. But it is an ordinary linux way. I don't know your situation and I haven't

[sage-support] Re: Why is Sage called a Computer *Algebra* system? What is def of "algebra"?

2009-05-16 Thread William Stein
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Chris Seberino wrote: > > Sage does calculus and geometry calculations so I don't understand why > the term "Computer Algebra System" is so prevalent. Neither do I. I have also always wondered why that term is used. I much prefer the term "mathematics softwar

[sage-support] Re: Why is Sage called a Computer *Algebra* system? What is def of "algebra"?

2009-05-16 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
Chris Seberino пишет: > Sage does calculus and geometry calculations so I don't understand why > the term "Computer Algebra System" is so prevalent. Probably because it is abbreviated as CAS that is already a history to call mathematics software. Serge > > What is the definition of "algebra"

[sage-support] Re: Sage for Scientific Grid

2009-05-16 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
Serge A. Salamanka пишет: > Hello, Ian > > It could be interesting to see your Django-based web-portal. > > 1) I didn't understand about dynamically created Sage Notebook pages. > What do you mean by that ? Could you be more specific please. > > The correlation between submitting job and show

[sage-support] Re: Why is Sage called a Computer *Algebra* system? What is def of "algebra"?

2009-05-16 Thread Jason Grout
Mike Hansen wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Craig Citro wrote: >>> Sage does calculus and geometry calculations so I don't understand why >>> the term "Computer Algebra System" is so prevalent. > > I would guess for historical reasons. On the front page of > sagemath.org, we just use

[sage-support] Re: Why is Sage called a Computer *Algebra* system? What is def of "algebra"?

2009-05-16 Thread Mike Hansen
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Craig Citro wrote: > >> Sage does calculus and geometry calculations so I don't understand why >> the term "Computer Algebra System" is so prevalent. I would guess for historical reasons. On the front page of sagemath.org, we just use the term "mathematics soft

[sage-support] Re: Why is Sage called a Computer *Algebra* system? What is def of "algebra"?

2009-05-16 Thread Craig Citro
> Sage does calculus and geometry calculations so I don't understand why > the term "Computer Algebra System" is so prevalent. > > What is the definition of "algebra"? Perhaps "algebra" means something > like "the manipulation of a finite number of objects" ? > I have a feeling this conversation

[sage-support] Why is Sage called a Computer *Algebra* system? What is def of "algebra"?

2009-05-16 Thread Chris Seberino
Sage does calculus and geometry calculations so I don't understand why the term "Computer Algebra System" is so prevalent. What is the definition of "algebra"? Perhaps "algebra" means something like "the manipulation of a finite number of objects" ? Chris --~--~-~--~~~--

[sage-support] Re: help! notebook doesn't work well.

2009-05-16 Thread Jason Grout
zasdfg wrote: > While using notebook plot(),I met with an problem. > I need help.THANKS Can you duplicate your problem on sagenb.org? If so, please publish the worksheet and post a link to the worksheet here. plot(sin, 3, 5) works fine for me (displays a plot of sin(x)). Thanks, Jason --~

[sage-support] Re: Sage on BalticGrid - need to create rpm package

2009-05-16 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
Thank you, William I need to ask for help with creating rpm package. First thing is to disable any sort of functions to start web-services. I just need a distribution of Sage python library and other tools that can be accessed through ipython. Should I create a different topic for this or it is

[sage-support] Re: Sage on BalticGrid

2009-05-16 Thread William Stein
Very nice!! On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Serge A. Salamanka wrote: > > A presentation was made on the BalticGrid 2nd All Hands Meeting in Riga, > Latvia on 12-14 May 2009. > As the result Sage was recommended for BalticGrid gLite-sites as a > service that could be installed by all administra

[sage-support] Re: Reaching the sage command line

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
On May 16, 2:32 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM, kilucas wrote: > > > I'm using the VMWare Player v2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on a LAN-connected > > laptop with no firewall and am confused about how to reach the sage > > command line. > > > If I run the VMWare Player from

[sage-support] Re: Multi-user server on Windows

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
On May 16, 5:12 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > kilucas wrote: > > > On May 12, 6:50 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > >> kilucas wrote: > > >>> On May 12, 5:14 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > kilucas wrote: > > > > I hadn't thought about multiple v single notebook architectures and > > will think

[sage-support] Solving systems of symbolic equations

2009-05-16 Thread ohitmano
Hi, I try to solve system of symbolic equatios: # var ("A_0, B_0, C_0, D_0, r, h, E, q, v, e11, k11, m11, n11, Q") v=0.3 #E=2*10^11 q=10*10^3 r_1=.1 r_2=.2 #h=0.004

[sage-support] Re: help! notebook doesn't work well.

2009-05-16 Thread zasdfg
While using notebook plot(),I met with an problem. I need help.THANKS --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options,

[sage-support] Re: Sage on BalticGrid

2009-05-16 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
A presentation was made on the BalticGrid 2nd All Hands Meeting in Riga, Latvia on 12-14 May 2009. As the result Sage was recommended for BalticGrid gLite-sites as a service that could be installed by all administrators. You can follow the progress of SAGE installations on http://infosite.balticgr

[sage-support] Re: characters of the symmetric group

2009-05-16 Thread amps
Yes, I know about the symmetric functions way, but I thought that there would be a built in function that does this. I guess the easiest thing to do would be to define a function that uses the symmetric functions to compute this. I guess this can be submitted to sage so such a function exists, b

[sage-support] Re: When to type notebook and notebook()

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
On May 16, 2:29 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:48 AM, kilucas wrote: > > > I'm using VMWare Player 2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on Win XP Pro on a LAN- > > connected laptop with no firewall and I've become confused about when, > > in the startup sequence, I type the "notebook" an

[sage-support] Re: Multi-user server on Windows

2009-05-16 Thread Jason Grout
kilucas wrote: > > > On May 12, 6:50 pm, Jason Grout wrote: >> kilucas wrote: >> >>> On May 12, 5:14 pm, Jason Grout wrote: kilucas wrote: > > I hadn't thought about multiple v single notebook architectures and > will think harder about that now. Or what I would do in yo

[sage-support] Re: Reaching the sage command line

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
On May 16, 2:32 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM, kilucas wrote: > > > I'm using the VMWare Player v2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on a LAN-connected > > laptop with no firewall and am confused about how to reach the sage > > command line. > > > If I run the VMWare Player from

[sage-support] Re: Sage for Scientific Grid

2009-05-16 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
Hello, Ian It could be interesting to see your Django-based web-portal. 1) I didn't understand about dynamically created Sage Notebook pages. What do you mean by that ? Could you be more specific please. The correlation between submitting job and showing the results in the notebook worksheet co

[sage-support] Re: Logging in to a browser session

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
On May 16, 2:58 pm, "Serge A. Salamanka" wrote: > When you start notebook server from the command line the very first time > you get a promt to choose password for admin user. Is the "command line" you're refering to the login prompt that I see below the menu of 4 options (notebook, off, manag

[sage-support] Re: Logging in to a browser session

2009-05-16 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
When you start notebook server from the command line the very first time you get a promt to choose password for admin user. Thus, login as admin Serge kilucas пишет: > I'm struggling to get sage running on a lan-connected notebook and so > have been pointing Firefox at a whole variety of IP addr

[sage-support] Re: Reaching the sage command line

2009-05-16 Thread William Stein
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM, kilucas wrote: > > I'm using the VMWare Player v2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on a LAN-connected > laptop with no firewall and am confused about how to reach the sage > command line. > > If I run the VMWare Player from Windows, and use it to open sage_vmx > I'm offered a m

[sage-support] Re: When to type notebook and notebook()

2009-05-16 Thread William Stein
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:48 AM, kilucas wrote: > > I'm using VMWare Player 2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on Win XP Pro on a LAN- > connected laptop with no firewall and I've become confused about when, > in the startup sequence, I type the "notebook" and/or the "notebook()" > commands. > > In the sequenc

[sage-support] Reaching the sage command line

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
I'm using the VMWare Player v2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on a LAN-connected laptop with no firewall and am confused about how to reach the sage command line. If I run the VMWare Player from Windows, and use it to open sage_vmx I'm offered a menu of 4 choices: notebook, off, manage, sage (which says it's

[sage-support] When to type notebook and notebook()

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
I'm using VMWare Player 2.5.2 and Sage 3.4.1 on Win XP Pro on a LAN- connected laptop with no firewall and I've become confused about when, in the startup sequence, I type the "notebook" and/or the "notebook()" commands. In the sequence: 1) run the VMWare Player from Windows 2) open the sage_vmx

[sage-support] Logging in to a browser session

2009-05-16 Thread kilucas
I'm struggling to get sage running on a lan-connected notebook and so have been pointing Firefox at a whole variety of IP addresses, port numbers and http/https combinations to see if I can find anything that will respond. Occasionally attempts to reach IP addresses associated with VMNet8 or VMNet