Re: [sage-support] Re: Pi and I in SAGE For Newbies by Ted Kosan

2010-03-14 Thread Erik Lane
>> >> > > Installed Sage Version 4.3.3, Release Date: 2010-02-21 from source - needed > some time. > Pi and E still end up with an error. I does not, Infinit and True and False > are ok as well. > Did you try them lower case? Pi and E show up as errors, but pi and e do not, at least for me. -- T

Re: [sage-support] LaTeX text

2010-01-21 Thread Erik Lane
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Thomas Scofield wrote: > > I am creating notebooks to publish for my students to use in a spring > course. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am interspersing commands, output of > those commands, and explanatory text. The only way I know to create the > latter is to sh

[sage-support] Re: just Maxima

2009-11-12 Thread Erik Lane
Both work for me, as well, even though I have a hard time understanding the first one... :) On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:04 PM, ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: > > > > On 12 lis, 22:08, Mikie wrote: >> Robert, >> >> Bad link. >> > > which one? both work for me. > > > --~--~-~--~~~

[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

2009-08-29 Thread Erik Lane
> Usually "an" comes before a word that starts with a vowel, i.e a, e, > i, o, u. So one would say "an eight o'clock meeting" or "an 8 o'clock > meeting". More examples: an amphibian, an egg, an igloo, an octopus, > an umbrella. However, there are situations when this rule doesn't > apply. In soft

[sage-support] Re: API up

2009-06-18 Thread Erik Lane
The gif link is broken. Tries to use a private address. 192.168.1.101 That doesn't work with my computer, of course. I don't have IE8 so I can't comment on that. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Mikie wrote: >> >> How fast was it and did it

[sage-support] Re: axes labels in plot3d

2008-10-02 Thread Erik Lane
If you right click on the 3d plot after it is made you can sort of add in the axes. I say 'sort of' because they have never actually lined up right where they are supposed to be. They go through the middle(ish) of the box, but the x-y plane is displaced (for me) in the positive z direction. You ca

[sage-support] Re: saving worksheets?

2008-09-25 Thread Erik Lane
That same site has Intel binaries as well. http://sagemath.org/bin/apple_osx/intel/ Erik On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Ray Kiddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok. But I have an Intel Mac OS X machine. Sorry I did not say. I will > look for binaries. > > cheers - ray > > On Sep 25, 2008, a

[sage-support] Re: Two Dimensional Plots

2008-09-25 Thread Erik Lane
Yes, I saw that in the solution of the other one (and have changed my plots to take this into account), but what is the advantage of the aspect ratio default *not* being 1? I'm very curious. I'm not a mathematician, just a student going through college, so I would love to hear the why behind this.