[sage-support] sage squashfs?

2010-06-26 Thread Jurgis Pralgauskis
Hello, I found http://wiki.sagemath.org/SagemathLive and liked the idea a lot. but I can't access http://boxen.math.washinegton.edu/home/frank/sagemath/squashfs/karmic/karmic-sage-4.3.1.sqfs I have netbook with limited diskspace, and I'd like to take it to the journey. it runs Lubuntu 10.4 (I am

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage showing its work

2010-06-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 26, 2010, at 7:24 PM, S. Robert James wrote: I didn't receive a response on this. If the question isn't clear, please let me know what needs to be clarified. I'm sure my request isn't unique: one of the major goals of Sage is to provide a platform that allows people to _verify_ it, whic

Re: [sage-support] Sage showing its work

2010-06-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:44 AM, S. Robert James wrote: > Hi. Checking out sage, and it's amazing.  I'm a bit overwhelmed by its > size, though...  I intend to use it to handle some of the messy > algebraic manipulations while I work on combinatorics.  Can anyone > help with these questions: > >

[sage-support] Re: Sage showing its work

2010-06-26 Thread S. Robert James
I didn't receive a response on this. If the question isn't clear, please let me know what needs to be clarified. I'm sure my request isn't unique: one of the major goals of Sage is to provide a platform that allows people to _verify_ it, which is par for the course for any mathematician. I'd lik

Re: [sage-support] Re: Simplification / Latex question

2010-06-26 Thread Mike Witt
On 06/26/2010 05:21:21 PM, kcrisman wrote: > I believe that Ticket #9329 was generated in response to my original > post, before I understood that there was a Latex issue involved. > I believe that Ticket #9329 should be deleted (closed or whatever). But part of your question was also to try to

[sage-support] Re: Simplification / Latex question

2010-06-26 Thread kcrisman
> I believe that Ticket #9329 was generated in response to my original > post, before I understood that there was a Latex issue involved. > I believe that Ticket #9329 should be deleted (closed or whatever). But part of your question was also to try to simplify more complicated expressions, and i

Re: [sage-support] Re: Simplification / Latex question

2010-06-26 Thread Mike Witt
On 06/26/2010 03:26:06 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 6/24/10 6:15 AM, kcrisman wrote: Right. This crops up in the middle of a more complicated expression. If I could figure out how to break the expression up in the right way, then I guess I could search for parts that are exponential functions, tak

[sage-support] Re: Simplification / Latex question

2010-06-26 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/24/10 6:15 AM, kcrisman wrote: Right. This crops up in the middle of a more complicated expression. If I could figure out how to break the expression up in the right way, then I guess I could search for parts that are exponential functions, take the log of those, and then simplify the logs.

Re: [sage-support] Re: Minus sign not being typeset?

2010-06-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
This is a known bug. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9314 On Jun 26, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Mike Witt wrote: More info: -- | Sage Version 4.3.1, Release Date: 2010-01-20 | | Type notebook() for the

[sage-support] Re: Minus sign not being typeset?

2010-06-26 Thread Mike Witt
More info: -- | Sage Version 4.3.1, Release Date: 2010-01-20 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.| -- sag

Re: [sage-support] Minus sign not being typeset?

2010-06-26 Thread Mike Witt
On 06/25/2010 01:19:06 PM, S. Robert James wrote: Hi. When using Sage notebook in typesetting mode, a leading minus sign doesn't seem to appear. sage: expand(h_m) -m^2/(2*n - 1) + m + m/(2*n - 1) # This is correct. Now, let's turn on typesetting: sage: expand(h_m) # Doesn't show the leading mi

Re: [sage-support] Dirac Comb

2010-06-26 Thread Tobias Katz
Hi, I got a first result, but it only works when I "type" it in the command line interface. import numpy as np import pylab as pl pl.ion() pl.grid(True) var('t n_ ll ul') tt=np.arange(0.01,10,0.01) f=sin(t)/t ts=0.5 fs=sum(f*dirac_delta(t-(2*n_-1)*ts),n_,0,20)/dirac_delta(0) fl=lambda t:f fl

[sage-support] Dirac Comb

2010-06-26 Thread Tobias Katz
Hi, I played with the dirac_delta function but didn't get the results that I need. In the end, I need to be able to plot and calculate functions that are multiplied with a dirac comb like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Dirac-comb_-_Sampling.png But I didn't find out how to do

Re: [sage-support] power series --> rational function conversion?

2010-06-26 Thread David Joyner
Can't you regard the coefficients as a LFSR and then use the connection polynomial? I'm not saying that there is no work to be done, but I think the hardest part, the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm, is implemented. http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/crypto/lfsr.html On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8

[sage-support] Re: power series --> rational function conversion?

2010-06-26 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
John Cremona a écrit : > I have a power series f(x) in F[[x]] (where F is a finite field) which > I know to be a rational function p(x)/q(x) where p,q in F[x] have > degree at most n, and I want to find p and q. There is an algorithm > for this, like "rational reconstruction" to go from a real to