[sage-support] Re: Asymptotics of binomial coefficients

2011-12-29 Thread shreevatsa
[Poor formatting in the previous post; trying again.] On Dec 29, 12:31 pm, William Stein wrote: > (Not meant as flaimbait) I can think of a lot of counterexamples to this,> at > least in the context of number theory problems that involve counting, > which would be impossible to do in a lifetime

[sage-support] Re: Asymptotics of binomial coefficients

2011-12-29 Thread shreevatsa
On Dec 29, 12:31 pm, William Stein wrote:> On Dec 28, 2011 9:05 PM, "shreevatsa" wrote:> > On Dec 29, 3:29 am, John Cremona wrote:> > > This follows very easily from Stirling's Formula.  But I suppose the> > > original question was not so much "what is the answer" as "can I get> > > the answer f

Re: [sage-support] Help with plotting from Mathematica using SageTeX

2011-12-29 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > On 26 December 2011 19:51, David Kirkby wrote: >> On 26 December 2011 19:28, William Stein wrote: > >>> What problems?  Are there any corresponding open trac tickets or bug >>> reports about your problems? >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sag

Re: [sage-support] Problem with sage binary for rhel

2011-12-29 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Shaun Ault wrote: > > Dear Sage Support, > > I've downloaded the 64-bit binary, > > sage-4.7.2-linux-64bit-red_hat_enterprise_linux_server_release_5.6_tikanga-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz > > onto a server that is running rhel 5.5 tikanga. You can either try building all

[sage-support] Problem with sage binary for rhel

2011-12-29 Thread Shaun Ault
Dear Sage Support, I've downloaded the 64-bit binary, sage-4.7.2-linux-64bit-red_hat_enterprise_linux_server_release_5.6_tikanga-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz onto a server that is running rhel 5.5 tikanga. [sageadm@acad-math01 ~]$ uname -a Linux acad-math01 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:39 EDT

[sage-support] Re: sage graph -- why is c_graph so slow??

2011-12-29 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hell !!! and still much faster than the c_graph implementation. > Well... I spent *quite* some time over this problem, wrote a LOT of code and documentation , to find out later that this could be solved in a *very small* patch. I hope all the work I did could be used later on a

[sage-support] Re: Poisson distribution

2011-12-29 Thread achrzesz
On Dec 28, 8:13 pm, akm wrote: > Hi all, can anyone recommend a way of generating random numbers via a > Poisson distribution? > > I'm trying to wrangle scipy.stats.poisson to get something centered at > 10, say, with a nice long tail out to the right, but I can't figure > out how to manipulate