[sage-support] Re: derivative bug in Sage 4.0 symbolics?

2009-08-30 Thread Alex Raichev
Hi all: Thanks to those who worked on closing ticket 6243 regarding derivatives as dictionary keys. It appears that there are still some bugs, though (see below). Alex -- | Sage Version 4.1.1, Release Date: 2009-08-14

[sage-support] Sage 4.1.1 bug: derivatives as dictionary keys

2009-08-30 Thread Alex Raichev
Hi all: Pardon my re-post of this message. I forgot to update the subject line. Thanks to those who worked on closing ticket 6243 regarding derivatives as dictionary keys for the release of Sage 4.1.1. It appears that there's still a bug, though (see below). Alex

[sage-support] Re: gap packages usable in "sage -gap", but not in "gap()"

2009-08-30 Thread Simon King
Hi! On Aug 30, 5:10 pm, William Stein wrote: [...] > It might be worth adding a little > message to gap_console() saying "something missing?  Maybe try running > gap_reset_workspace() first." I wouldn't like to see such message whenever gap_console() is starting, and moreover the problem also a

[sage-support] Re: gap packages usable in "sage -gap", but not in "gap()"

2009-08-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Simon King wrote: > > On Aug 30, 4:48 pm, William Stein wrote: > > if that works then we have some sort of bug in the optional spkg, since > it > > should have done that. > > PS: > I don't know if it is a bug in the optional spkg, because David Green > did not in

[sage-support] Re: gap packages usable in "sage -gap", but not in "gap()"

2009-08-30 Thread Simon King
On Aug 30, 4:48 pm, William Stein wrote: > if that works then we have some sort of bug in the optional spkg, since it > should have done that. PS: I don't know if it is a bug in the optional spkg, because David Green did not install it via "database_gap", but manually, directly in "sage -gap".

[sage-support] Re: gap packages usable in "sage -gap", but not in "gap()"

2009-08-30 Thread Simon King
Hi William, On Aug 30, 4:48 pm, William Stein wrote: > Try doing: > > sage: gap_reset_workspace() > > if that works then we have some sort of bug in the optional spkg, since it > should have done that. It did work (after restarting sage)! So, it is a bug? It occurred in sage 4.1, built from so

[sage-support] Re: gap packages usable in "sage -gap", but not in "gap()"

2009-08-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Simon King wrote: > > Hi! > > My former boss in Jena installed the most recent version of the > SmallGroups library in gap, which on this machine is identical with > "sage -gap". > > Now, starting sage -gap, the following works: > gap> NumberSmallGroups(2187); >

[sage-support] gap packages usable in "sage -gap", but not in "gap()"

2009-08-30 Thread Simon King
Hi! My former boss in Jena installed the most recent version of the SmallGroups library in gap, which on this machine is identical with "sage -gap". Now, starting sage -gap, the following works: gap> NumberSmallGroups(2187); 9310 But the corresponding command in sage_console() or in the gap

[sage-support] Re: English grammar of numbers

2009-08-30 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Pierre wrote: > Of course this is just silly (as grammar (typography?) rules can > sometimes be), as a 178-cocycle is a nightmare to write down, and i'm > not even sure what to make of n-cocycles where n isn't defined yet. > For the record though, i think what i

[sage-support] Re: English grammar of numbers

2009-08-30 Thread John Cremona
I think I wrote the ordinal_str function, for the output of certain messages related to roots of unity. Clearly I did not do a perfect job: it uses 'st' for 1 mod 10 except for 11, but I think that should be: 'st' for 1 mod 10 except 'th' for 11 mod 100. Similarly for 2 and 3 mod 10. I just sa

[sage-support] Re: English grammar of numbers

2009-08-30 Thread Pierre
hi all, two comments: (1) Simon, let me offer the following pedantic comment which i advise you to ignore (!). Technically, i believe that writing "a 2-cocycle" is incorrect anyway, as it should be "a two-cocycle". Likewise, "the proof splits into 2 cases" should be "the proof splits into two ca

[sage-support] Re: English grammar of numbers

2009-08-30 Thread Erik Lane
> Orthography is horrible because so much of the vocabulary is from > Anglo-Saxon or old French, but we barely pronounce anything like > Icelandic.  For a great example, see > http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=enough > - a lot of initial "g"s became "y"s or disappeared, and I can only > as

[sage-support] Re: English grammar of numbers

2009-08-30 Thread Dan Drake
We should translate the Sage UI into Lojban! That would probably solve our problems. http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojban (Sorry for the top post, but I'm not responding to any particular sentence written below...) On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 at 05:25PM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > On Aug 29, 6:45 pm, Robert D