[sage-support] Re: SAGE being extremely slow with multivariable poly rings - is this normal?

2010-05-21 Thread Simon King
On 22 Mai, 00:12, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > Try working a multivariate ring rather than a tower of univariate   > rings, e.g. ... ... which suggests the question why Sage does not automatically transform a tower of polynomial rings into a single ring -- for efficiency, and in order to avoid weird

Re: [sage-support] SAGE being extremely slow with multivariable poly rings - is this normal?

2010-05-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 21, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Alex P wrote: Hi all, I tried the following code in SAGE and it seems that it is taking way too long -- | Sage Version 4.3.4, Release Date: 2010-03-19 | | Type notebook() for t

[sage-support] SAGE being extremely slow with multivariable poly rings - is this normal?

2010-05-21 Thread Alex P
Hi all, I tried the following code in SAGE and it seems that it is taking way too long -- | Sage Version 4.3.4, Release Date: 2010-03-19 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.

[sage-support] "Pop out" help window

2010-05-21 Thread kcrisman
When tabbing out some ? help in the notebook, this thing comes up which I can pop out. But when I do it, it isn't very useful; I can just move it around (only inside the browser window), but it doesn't seem to be printable (although it mentions that it's not printed). Am I missing something? I

Re: [sage-support] Saving/printing worksheets in 'windows OS

2010-05-21 Thread William Stein
On Friday, May 21, 2010, TimP wrote: > I tried your approach--and Firefox has never liked the suggested > 'numerical' URLs that have been mentioned in SAGE releases.  BUT--I > rediscovered the online use of SAGE at http://www.sagenb.org.  I had > apparently tried it out before I started practicing

[sage-support] How to replace RandomArray, RNG, whrandom and LinearAlgebra ?

2010-05-21 Thread zetro
Above mentioned modules doesn't work in newer versions of python i guess? Has their name only changed or what other modules should i use so that i could translate in Sage older python code with those modules ? Also, i have a piece of code below that doesn't work anymore. Old python also. Isn't the

Re: [sage-support] Sage being cheeky

2010-05-21 Thread Burcin Erocal
Hi Alasdair, On Thu, 20 May 2010 18:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Alasdair wrote: > sage: diff(gamma(x)) > gamma(x)*psi(x) > sage: psi(1) > > NameError: name 'psi' is not defined > > Now is that cheeky or what - Sage giving an answer with a function > which is "not defined"! This was fixed a while ago,

[sage-support] Re: Sage being cheeky

2010-05-21 Thread Simon King
PS: On May 21, 10:05 am, Simon King wrote: [snip] > So, naively, my first guess was that the Gamma function is known as > Gamma to Sage. The latex name is in fact upper case: sage: latex(gamma(x)) \Gamma\left(x\right) > So, if you want to work with "psi", whatever this is, then define it!

[sage-support] Re: Sage being cheeky

2010-05-21 Thread Simon King
Hi! On May 21, 2:56 am, Alasdair wrote: > sage: diff(gamma(x)) >   gamma(x)*psi(x) > sage: psi(1) > > NameError: name 'psi' is not defined > > Now is that cheeky or what - Sage giving an answer with a function > which is "not defined"! Probably I am painting a bike shed here, and some people may

[sage-support] Re: Are there statisticians using Sage?

2010-05-21 Thread TimP
As a Research Forester/Statistician I have had to deal with sophisticated math issues for my whole career (and even more so now that I am retired (and still working). My/our work was limited by the lack of 'affordable' math packages available to use. You'd be amazed at what an applied statisticia

[sage-support] Re: Saving/printing worksheets in 'windows OS

2010-05-21 Thread TimP
I tried your approach--and Firefox has never liked the suggested 'numerical' URLs that have been mentioned in SAGE releases. BUT--I rediscovered the online use of SAGE at http://www.sagenb.org. I had apparently tried it out before I started practicing with SAGE on my computer, because it had an o

[sage-support] Sage installation in windows

2010-05-21 Thread Tim Barrett
I'm a sage newbie. I have installed virtualbox and followed the installation instructions regarding importing the appliance into Virtualbox. Virtualbox does not import sage however. My experiences have been the same as Matthew Chan. I am running Vista. Regards Barrti -- To post to