Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage's running too slowly

2012-08-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
g "top" from the command line)? It could be that you are running out of RAM and are using the swap a lot, which makes things very slow. Of course, in that case doing *anything* inside the virtual machine would feel quite slow. -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematic

Re: [sage-support] Calling up pi to nth decimal place.

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
know all the digits from the fraction point to the part you are interested in. (Try it yourself: I have a number N whose hexadecimal expansion is *3A*, where I don't know the * digits. What information does this give you about the decimal expansion?) -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -

Re: [sage-support] random problem

2012-07-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
ping for something fancier this won't help. -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr..

Re: [sage-support] Generator of Finite Field

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
(a+1).multiplicative_order() 255 The docs for multiplicative_generator() say: "return a generator of the multiplicative group", then add "Warning: This generator might change from one version of Sage to another." -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathemat

Re: [sage-support] exact vs approximate values

2011-08-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
n to the value of the integral, and the second is an upper bound on the error of this approximation. Type sage: numerical_integral? to find out more about this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- http://aghitza.org -- To post to this gro

Re: [sage-support] Testing if polynomial is in ideal

2010-09-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
sage: x in I False Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.c

Re: [sage-support] Those cookies again...

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
then see if your system administrator is willing to give it a shot. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: [sage-support] Error installing cadabra.spkg

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
kage. In your case, I would try installing libpcre3-dev and see if it helps (it does include pcre.h, for instance). Note also that pcre is a library so there is no pcre executable to run. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne

Re: [sage-support] VMware memory allocation: how to change it with version 4.5.2?

2010-08-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
change the settings. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups

Re: [sage-support] Sheaf Cohomology Calculations

2010-08-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
2/doc/Macaulay2-1.3.1/share/doc/Macaulay2/Macaulay2Doc/html/_coherent_spsheaves.html and related pages, and if that does not help, ask on the Macaulay2 mailing list, see http://groups.google.com/group/macaulay2 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics --

Re: [sage-support] Re: 4.5.1 or 4.5.2 for win?

2010-08-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
e virtual machine's Sage notebook without any problems. So that's why I don't know what's going on at your end. The best I can do at the moment is to suggest renaming the sage-vmware folder and starting over from sage-vmware-4.5.2.zip (if you still have it). Best, Alex -

Re: [sage-support] 4.5.1 or 4.5.2 for win?

2010-08-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
e-4.5.2 that's up now. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@google

Re: [sage-support] Re: why does constructing this ring take forever?

2010-07-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
r should be given the opportunity to > *assert* that the number is prime (or non-prime). > ... and Ctrl-C should be allowed to stop this. I tried this out, then pressed Ctrl-C and had to go to the office. It was still going more than 6 hours later. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http

Re: [sage-support] Is there any way to get old VMware versions?

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
#x27;ll have to install Sage in our computer labs (Windows only) and I'd like to use something more recent than 4.4.alpha0. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-s

Re: [sage-support] Re: zeros of the Riemann zeta function

2010-06-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
So the documentation is correct about this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubsc

Re: [sage-support] Re: Testing if something is an instance of FreeModule

2010-05-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
e Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- 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 option

Re: [sage-support] Re: power series bug?

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
eone more familiar with the power series code will jump in at > this point. This type of thing has been noticed before (a couple of times!), see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3979 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5367 I guess it might be time to fix these :)

Re: [sage-support] projective duality for plane curves?

2010-04-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
rom this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia --

Re: [sage-support] projective duality for plane curves?

2010-04-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
re about? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- 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

Re: [sage-support] ¡RuntimeError: Unable to determi ne branch?!

2010-04-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
> > /home/kinichi/Deb`s/sage-4.3.5-linux-32bit-debian_5.0-i686-Linux/ > local/ This is just a shot in the dark, but I think the problem might be that the directory where you put sage has a ` character in it. Can you try to rename the directory "Deb`s" to something else like

Re: [sage-support] Re: reset()

2010-04-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
KeyError: 'x' But if you reset again, x is back: sage: reset sage: globals()['x'] x And everything is behaving exactly as the docstrings indicate. Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to

Re: [sage-support] Yamanouchi words

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
5 but it's been the same since 4.3.1 > > Is there a class? > functions? > or is it just a random note about those words? > -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-

Re: [sage-support] strange n()

2010-04-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
... which you can figure out from the first two lines of the docstring for n, by typing n? at the Sage prompt :). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@g

Re: [sage-support] Why does my little program bring my department's server to its knees?

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
e-4.3.3 and report on their findings. Either it will work well, which would give you a good argument to get your sysadmin to upgrade; or it will bring somebody else's server down, in which case there's probably some bug to fix. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/

Re: [sage-support] Re: Solve fails for a cubic

2010-03-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
f.poles() (and maybe also f.divisor()), and have f.roots() be an alias for f.zeroes(). And again, maybe there should be a nice way of doing this within symbolics and somebody else can comment on this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The

Re: [sage-support] Solve fails for a cubic

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
33979323890405, 1)] Is this what you were hoping for? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email t

Re: [sage-support] Re: sage 4.3.3 fortan compilation problem

2010-02-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
is group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage Live CD (Alternativ based on Puppy Linux)

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
eLivePupv02.iso Here is the md5sum to check if the download is ok: 359f63129d4f3993bd890e4029b4d98f I'll leave this up until a copy makes it onto the official Sage pages. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.

Re: [sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
yet been defined; did you do this on purpose to get them to fix it? * for "Divisibility of integers", you can also do something like q, r = 4357.quo_rem(3754) and get the quotient and the remainder in one go. * in "Extended gcd", I think saying "*the* values of r

Re: [sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Ghitza
released and is ready for them to > upgrade to. Note that some of the major software that does this also allows you to turn it off (I'm thinking of Firefox here). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.

Re: [sage-support] sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
from www.sagemath.org This will give you Sage 4.3.2, the latest release. Another option is to download the sources and build it yourself. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to th

Re: [sage-support] using n.factor()

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
) or xsrange(): sage: srange(5) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] sage: type(srange(5)[2]) sage: for i in srange(1, 5): print i.factor() 1 2 3 2^2 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/

Re: [sage-support] Re: polygon from list of points

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
.polar poly.vertices poly.facial_incidences poly.prism Feel free to explore these and ask more questions. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -

Re: [sage-support] Re: Cannot run Sage

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
ight have it as well by now.) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-supp

Re: [sage-support] Cannot run Sage

2010-01-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:01:45 +1100, Alex Ghitza wrote: > > I will make a new binary distribution and upload it somewhere, and I'll > send you the link when that's done. > It's basically done; I am getting it compressed with lzma right now, so it should be rea

Re: [sage-support] Cannot run Sage

2010-01-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
t KeyboardInterrupt: > 985 # DO NOT CATCH KeyboardInterrupt, as it is being caught > > > /media/data/sage-4.3.1-archlinux-32bit-i686-Linux/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/interfaces/gap.py > in _eval_line(self, line, allow_use_file, wait_for_prompt) > 683

Re: [sage-support] NIST elliptic curves in the Cremona database?

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
ase.) The ECC algorithms themselves are a more contentious matter. RSA thinks that the original algorithms due to Koblitz-Miller are not under patent, but that certain implementation techniques and newer algorithms are, see http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2325 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza

Re: [sage-support] NIST elliptic curves in the Cremona database?

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
his group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To

[sage-support] Re: Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:03:32 -0800 (PST), Harald Schilly wrote: > On Jan 4, 1:16 am, Alex Ghitza wrote: > > I finished creating binaries for 32-bit and 64-bit Archlinux... > > Hi, should I upload these to the mirror or do you try again with the > fat binaries option? >

[sage-support] Re: Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:03:32 -0800 (PST), Harald Schilly wrote: > On Jan 4, 1:16 am, Alex Ghitza wrote: > > I finished creating binaries for 32-bit and 64-bit Archlinux... > > Hi, should I upload these to the mirror or do you try again with the > fat binaries option? &g

Re: [sage-support] Re: Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
FAT_BINARY="yes" No, I didn't because of the warning in README.txt. I can do it in the future, though. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send ema

Re: [sage-support] Re: Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
can you put these on the Linux binaries page? I will try to keep producing these for the next releases. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to

Re: [sage-support] Modular Symbols and irregular cusps

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
e and the space B_k(Gamma) is an > _isomorphism_, whereas in the SAGE sourcecode and in William Stein's > book it is only stated that it's injective. > > Thanks in advance, > Kilian. > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourn

Re: [sage-support] Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:47:37 +1100, Alex Ghitza wrote: > > One of these days I will find out how to make binaries and I'll produce > 32 and 64 bit binaries for archlinux. Sorry to be replying to myself. I read through the rest of README.txt (for the first time ever, I guess

Re: [sage-support] Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
another option. (But I still think that the easiest and most robust way is to build from source.) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-supp

Re: [sage-support] Fwd: sage q

2009-12-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
misinterpreting what Ciaran was saying). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email t

Re: [sage-support] Re: Running Sage remotely via a web browser: How?

2009-12-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
ll with more complicated rules. So what I would do in your situation is to find out what firewall software is enabled on your machine and then google "XYZ ABC configuration", where XYZ is your Linux distribution and ABC is the firewall software. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in

Re: [sage-support] Re: An abbreviation for lambda?

2009-12-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
t;: that's not actually correct mathematical notation. The right one is closer to what Sage outputs (as Jason pointed out), i.e. x |-> x^2 So if we're going to do anything in this direction, I would much prefer this to x -> x^2 which is just plain wrong. Best, Alex -- Alex

Re: [sage-support] Re: Integer points of an elliptic curve

2009-12-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
time though). Definitely let us know if you're having any trouble installing a recent version, or if there are other features that you would like to have regarding elliptic curves. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.m

Re: [sage-support] weird error after starting Sage 4.2.1 in terminal

2009-11-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:53:39PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > > I've never heard of this. The above could be caused by some file > being corrupted. > > Delete $HOME/.sage/temp to get rid of this problem. > Thanks, that did it. -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathem

[sage-support] weird error after starting Sage 4.2.1 in terminal

2009-11-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
have not run into this in previous versions. Has anyone else seen this? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsub

[sage-support] from mpmath complex to sage complex

2009-11-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
I was thinking of fixing this by mimicking what you did in the case of the reals, but I couldn't easily find where and how that is done. I should probably keep looking -- but you probably know exactly where it is, and so I am lazy and asking you. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lectu

[sage-support] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:52:58PM -0800, Simon King wrote: > Hi Alex! > > On 17 Nov., 22:12, Alex Ghitza wrote: > ... > > I'm not sure I understand this paragraph.  Mathematically, 0*M is > > always the zero matrix and never the number 0.  So it seems to me t

[sage-support] [sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
rs): sage: V = VectorSpace(QQ, 5) sage: F = V.subspace([(0,1,2,3,4), (1,2,3,4,6), (0,1,0,1,0)]) sage: G = V.subspace([(1, 1, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 2, 2), (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)]) sage: I = F.intersection(G) sage: I.basis() [ (1, 0, -1, -2, -2), (0, 1, 1, 2, 2) ] sage: S = F + G sage: S.basis() [ (1, 0,

[sage-support] Re: Sage upgrade

2009-11-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:27:18PM -0800, Mikie wrote: > > Simon, > > No, I haven't any upgrade. > Could you tell explicitly what to do for the upgrade? > Just type sage -upgrade and see what happens. Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The

[sage-support] Arch Linux and Sage

2009-11-09 Thread Alex Ghitza
y to go. It also has the advantage that you can do it at the very beginning, instead of having to wait until R fails.) 2. The other option (more of a hackish workaround) is to do cp /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so /opt/sage-4.2/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/ and try "make" ag

[sage-support] Re: Arch Linux and Sage

2009-11-09 Thread Alex Ghitza
alled Sage, and type make test This runs most of the Sage test suite (it could take a while, depending on your machine) and reports on failures. There is also a longer version, unsurprisingly called make testlong which runs the whole test suite. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Ma

[sage-support] Arch Linux and Sage

2009-11-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
error, I type cp /usr/lib/libreadline.so /opt/sage-4.2/local/lib/ and then make again. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post

[sage-support] Re: Arch Linux and Sage

2009-11-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
ce not being > > implemented. I do not know any workarounds to this. > > I didn't see this at all either. > [...] -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~--

[sage-support] Re: subclass of hyperelliptic curve class

2009-11-05 Thread Alex Ghitza
s > 96 R = self.base_ring() > 97 y = self._printing_ring.gen() > > AttributeError: 'test' object has no attribute > '_hyperelliptic_polynomials' > > > I am not sure what

[sage-support] Re: symbolic/expression.pyx documentation patch

2009-10-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:11:18PM -0400, Mariah Lenox wrote: > > Would a sage developer please check in this (very minor) > patch to the symbolic/expression.pyx documentation. > [...] Up at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7265 -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathem

[sage-support] Re: ubuntu 9.04 sage notebook LaTeX does not work : kpdf not availabe

2009-09-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
d for you to recompile Sage. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubsc

[sage-support] Re: English grammar of numbers

2009-08-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
"an unusual circumstance" versus "a usual circumstance". I hope this makes sense. Also, disclaimer: IANANES (I am not a native English speaker :) -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --

[sage-support] Re: Jocobi Symbol

2009-07-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
Try sage: kronecker_symbol(a, N) with a and N your favourite integers. Best, Alex On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Santanu Sarkar wrote: > How Jacobi Symbol (a/N) can be calculate in Sage 4.1 > > > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbour

[sage-support] Re: Bits problem

2009-07-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
It's now N.nbits() Best, Alex On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Santanu Sarkar wrote: > How can find the number of bits of an integer in Sage 4.1 ? > Say, N=1234. > In Sage 3.1.1 it was N.bits() . > > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The

[sage-support] Re: Building Sage 3.4.2 under Arch Linux, 32 bit intel atom

2009-05-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
ix, >> > but I would run 4.0.a0 before running 3.4.2 anyway ;) >> > Just use 4.0.a0 or later ;) -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[sage-support] Re: cube roots

2009-05-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
27;s just operator precedence: >> >> sage: -(2.0^(1/3)) >> -1.25992104989487 >> sage: (-2.0)^(1/3) >> 0.629960524947437 + 1.09112363597172*I >> > > Clear. Thanks. Why this particular root? > I believe that it is the real 3rd root of 2 times the "natura

[sage-support] Re: memory leak?

2009-05-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
same phenomenon that Michael is describing when running loops where elliptic curves (or even just plane curves) are created. The patch seems to have no effect on those loops. Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbour

[sage-support] Re: memory leak?

2009-05-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
t;uniqueness of parents", and what we just saw here is a good reason why we might *not* want it. How can we reconcile this? Can we make it easy to turn off "uniqueness of parents" in some situations? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of M

[sage-support] Re: Sage in an xterm - some queries

2009-05-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
> Is there any easy way of coercing Sage to act like this? You would probably need to tweak the preparser and play with ipython, but I don't know enough about this to actually do it... Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The Univer

[sage-support] Re: Sage for Gentoo Linux

2009-03-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
versions: 5.0_lenny and 4.0_etch.  Is > one or the other of these a better choice for installing on a Gentoo > Linux box? > -John > > -- > John P. Burkett > Department of Economics > University of Rhode Island > Kingston, RI 02881-0808 > USA > > phone (401)

[sage-support] Re: 3-D plots of affine varieties

2009-03-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
4 (check out the ones named SD14__Visualisation*, they have a bunch of examples of plots of varieties) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--

[sage-support] Re: Special linear group on finite field

2009-03-15 Thread Alex Ghitza
thon2.5/site-packages/sage/interfaces/gap.py", > > line 1248, in gfq_gap_to_sage > >return F(K(g**e)) > > File "finite_field_givaro.pyx", line 530, in > > sage.rings.finite_field_givaro.FiniteField_givaro.__call__ > > (sage/rings/finite_field_gi

[sage-support] Re: Substitution

2009-03-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
follows: F.substitute(a=0, b=3) # and Sage will answer: 3 If you do F.substitute? you will get the documentation for the substitution method, with more examples of usage. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne

[sage-support] Fwd: two questions about sage-mode

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nick Alexander Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM Subject: Re: two questions about sage-mode To: Alex Ghitza On 11-Mar-09, at 3:48 PM, Alex Ghitza wrote: Hi folks, > > Quite a few people at Sage Days 14 are fans of emacs and therefore

[sage-support] two questions about sage-mode

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
ld come in handy when making changes to the sage library Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sa

[sage-support] Re: question on modular curves in Sage

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
X_0(N)$. > (I'm trying to remove all mention of Magma from a paper > I wrote long ago http://arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/0403548 > and this question arose from that.) > > Thanks, > David JOyner > > > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathemat

[sage-support] Re: server shutdown

2009-01-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
its own separate > >> sage run? Since notebook() doesn't return, I don't know how to do it > >> in one session. > >> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > "The main things which seem to me important on thei

[sage-support] Re: bug/feature? increasing precision of a complex number

2008-12-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
ave already made: you start with -5 which is an exact number, but as soon as you do CC(-5) you get a complex number with 53 bits of precision and no memory of where it's coming from. So doing CC(-5).n(prec=100) will just fill the missing 47 bits with randomness, just as if you had done CC(-

[sage-support] Re: Error in abc.n(digits=5)

2008-12-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
.| -- sage: proofStrain,f_y,gamma_ms = 0.002, 250, 1.1499 sage: abc = 3150/(2000*(proofStrain + 5.00e-6*f_y/gamma_ms) + 7) sage: abc 239.108910891089 sage: abc.n(digits=5) 239.11 Best, Alex -- Alex

[sage-support] Re: Perhaps a bug

2008-12-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
real. > > In case you're wondering how to achieve the result you're after: sage: RR(2.2*exp(3)) 44.1881812310129 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~

[sage-support] Re: Problem finding eigenvalues in sage

2008-11-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
e results but i havent been able > to prove it. > If anybody can help me to find a way to solve this problem showing the > lambdas I get when doing it on paper in sage, I'd be thankfull > > Thanks in advance, > Daniel > > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics

[sage-support] Re: multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
able? I tried your > syntax but it does not work. > However, [2*x for x in [3,4]] does work. > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to t

[sage-support] Re: multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
of numbers by a constant? > > e.g. I want 2*[3,4] = [6,8] > > without calling pari/gp. > > Thanks in advance > > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~-

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
U (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k > 200inputs+4736outputs (0major+7366minor)pagefaults 0swaps > > Martin > > > > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~-

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
The correct syntax is sin(x), not sin x. And so the following works: sage: plot(sin(x), (-1,1)) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-support] http://wiki.sagemath.org/art

2008-09-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi, The links under AMS January 2008 (with banner and flier files) are broken. Does anyone know where to find these files? Thanks, Alex -- Alexandru Ghitza Lecturer, Pure Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Statistics The University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, 3010 Australia --~--~

[sage-support] morphisms of projective spaces

2008-08-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi, I am fairly certain the following two things are bugs, but I want to double-check that I'm not doing something stupid before submitting a ticket: sage: R. = QQ[] sage: P1 = ProjectiveSpace(R) sage: H = P1.Hom(P1) sage: f = H([x-y, x*y]) sage: f Scheme endomorphism of Projective Space of dim

[sage-support] Re: Sage server on a gentoo system

2008-04-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Stein wrote: | On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Alex Ghitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | The "mysterious reason" is that we enhanced the security of | the notebook for local users. Namely, you now *must* do | | sage -c &

[sage-support] Re: Sage server on a gentoo system

2008-04-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I don't think you need to do anything special. Just install sage the normal way (either from binaries or building from source), then run sage -notebook This can be run either as root or as a normal user (probably preferable).

[sage-support] Re: trouble starting publicly-accessible notebook

2008-04-16 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Stein wrote: | On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Alex Ghitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi folks, | | I run a notebook server for one of the classes I'm teaching. It works | fine with sage-2.10.2, but I have trouble with

[sage-support] trouble starting publicly-accessible notebook

2008-04-16 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I run a notebook server for one of the classes I'm teaching. It works fine with sage-2.10.2, but I have trouble with more recent versions. It might have something to do with the new version of twistd, but I really don't know anything abou

[sage-support] Re: Trying to graph cubic function f(x)=x^(1/3)

2008-02-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andy, I had the exact same question a few days ago. There are many issues involved here, but the short answer to your question (provided by Carl Witty) is: you can plot x^(1/3) with show(plot(lambda x : RR(x).nth_root(3), -10, 10), figsize=[5,5

[sage-support] Re: desolve

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
: | "Solves a 1st or 2nd order linear ODE via maxima. " | | On Feb 18, 2008 10:03 PM, Alex Ghitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi, | | I'm trying the following: | | ~sage: t = var('t') | ~sage: x = function('x', t) | ~

[sage-support] desolve

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying the following: ~sage: t = var('t') ~sage: x = function('x', t) ~sage: de = lambda y: diff(y,t) - y^4 ~sage: desolve(de(x(t)),[x,t]) I get: 't+%c' But x(t)=t is clearly not a solution o

[sage-support] Re: Multiple Plots with different colors

2008-02-16 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 D. M. Monarres wrote: | Hello all, | | First of all, I would like to thank all of the sage developers. Sage | has been a very useful tool for both graduate work and teaching. | | I have a question about plotting. The plot function allows for a list

[sage-support] Re: Another possible bug in parametric_plot/show

2008-02-16 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bill.p wrote: | Sorry, Carl, it's | http://www.billp.org/Fermat_1729.sws | | Here's my transcript of the notebook for David. Firefox wouldn't let | me copy/paste from the notebook! | Ended up pressing the 'print' link, then doing File/save-as on

[sage-support] problems with modular symbols over finite fields

2007-11-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've been playing with spaces of modular symbols over finite fields, and I ran into two issues that seem to be separate (they're tickets #1231 and #1232 now): 1. doing ModularSymbols(1,8,0,GF(3)).simple_factors() gives - -

[sage-support] Re: sage-2.8.5

2007-09-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Success on Intel Core 2 running Gentoo: Machine: Linux latitude 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Wed Jul 18 15:19:23 EDT 2007 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux real66m23.913s user64m31.750s sys 4m40.942s To install

[sage-support] Re: two-dimensional plots and axes

2007-09-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
; type 'show?' to see other options. > > Alex > > On 9/20/07, *Alex Ghitza* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > I need to plot some simple functions in one variable (e.g. x^3, cos(x), > etc.). The graphs come o

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