[sage-support] Re: keyboard azerty qwerty

2008-05-18 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Pierre.coach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > after downloading sage virtual machine and installing vmware, I could > start it without problem, BUT it is typing QWERTY instead of AZERTY. > That is not very practical: where is the dot, where is the > semicolon

[sage-support] Re: How do I bring points to the front of a plot?

2008-05-10 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:14 AM, louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I made a custom polar grid based on circles and lines and then plotted > some points but the points appeared behind the grid. I tried the > documentation on these primitives and also show() but nothing on the > subject. I was

[sage-support] Re: random questions

2008-04-29 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:05 AM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Or I could make an init.sage file and put it in, right? It could be > useful to put a sample of the sort of commands which live in that kind > of file on the Wiki FAQ, or even a blank file with suggestions > commente

[sage-support] Re: How to tell the installation script of setup for Sage not to installed python packages

2008-04-25 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sage uses Python 2.5 while your system installation looks like 2.4. > > --Mike Thanks Mike! Upgrading to Python 2.5 did the trick. Best, -- Hector --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this

[sage-support] Re: How to tell the installation script of setup for Sage not to installed python packages

2008-04-25 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:36 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > By the way, you can modify sys.path in Sage so that it's possible > > to use your exist

[sage-support] Re: How to tell the installation script of setup for Sage not to installed python packages

2008-04-25 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:36 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > By the way, you can modify sys.path in Sage so that it's possible > to use your existing system-wide Python modules in some cases... [...] I tried just that, since I want to use Graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org/)

[sage-support] Re: Trigonometric identities

2008-04-23 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:39 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I haven't been able to 'expand' trigonometric functions i

[sage-support] Trigonometric identities

2008-04-23 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I haven't been able to 'expand' trigonometric functions in Sage using identities such as: sin(x + y) = sin(x)*cos(y) + sin(y)*cos(x) Is this currently implemented? Thanks in advance, -- Hector --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-s

[sage-support] Documentation with several entries

2008-04-22 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, while trying this: sage: gap.Factorization? I got this... Type: Definition: gap.Factorization( [noargspec] ) Docstring: Help: several entries match this topic - type ?2 to get match [2] [1] Reference: factorization [2] Reference: Factorization Which I can't get to work in either

[sage-support] Re: matlab-like 'whos' function in SAGE notebook interface?

2008-04-17 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:53 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > In Sage the function is show_identifiers(). [...] Oh, I misunderstood the question then... my bad. Thanks William, -- Hector --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send ema

[sage-support] Re: matlab-like 'whos' function in SAGE notebook interface?

2008-04-17 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Reckoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In matlab, if you type > > >> whos > > you will get a list of all the variables defined in the workspace > along with their sizes and other descriptive info. > > anything similar in the SAGE notebook interface? > > Tha

[sage-support] Re: delay in animation

2008-04-15 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:46 AM, pong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have installed the Imagemagick package and (I guess) it's in the > path since the window command prompt understand the convert function. > However, I still couldn't get SAGE to recognize the 'gif' command > ( SAGE ref. p260

[sage-support] Re: Use Sage, not PowerPoint

2008-04-11 Thread Hector Villafuerte
2008/4/11 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > Please click on "Edit" instead of "Text", then paste the result > into an Email so we can more easily try out your demo. [...] Sorry about that. I published it in sagenb.org instead: https://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/1781/ Best, -- Hector

[sage-support] Use Sage, not PowerPoint

2008-04-11 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, just today I came up with an idea that, I'm sure some of you had already thought of. Anyway, it could be publicized more: to use Sage instead of PowerPoint! In Sage Notebook, use [Action/One cell mode] and use LaTex for nicely typeset text and formulas. One can also embed images by attaching t

[sage-support] Re: Saving plots (2D and 3D)

2008-04-10 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:09 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > This is a bug:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2872 > There's currently no easy nice way to script > saving 3d graphics using Tachyon. If you do the following > > > sage: p = point3d([(k,k^2,0) for k

[sage-support] Saving plots (2D and 3D)

2008-04-10 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I noticed the following (inconsistent?) behavior: saving 2D plots works as expected (a graphic file is stored), but saving 3D plots gives .sobj files instead (see sample code below). Is there a way to save 3D plots from the Notebook? By the way, I know how to save them using jMol's GUI (as rea

[sage-support] Transverse wave and animate in 3D

2008-04-09 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I was trying to make an animation in SAGE of a transverse wave that would look something like this: http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=35.0 or even this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Onde_cisaillement_impulsion_1d_30_petit.gif It though seems that 'animate' can't handl

[sage-support] Re: About list_plot3d behavior

2008-04-06 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:43 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Current behavior for list_plot3d is "A 3-dimensional plot of a surface &

[sage-support] About list_plot3d behavior

2008-04-06 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, Current behavior for list_plot3d is "A 3-dimensional plot of a surface defined by the list v of points in 3-dimensional space.". I was expecting to see dots in space, not a surface; similar to this: http://www-finmath.uchicago.edu/new/msfm/events/Workshop_21.png http://www.stats.uwo.ca/computi

[sage-support] PDE and Finite Element methods

2008-04-02 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I wonder what the current situation in SAGE is for dealing with PDE and methods to solve them numerically, such as say Finite Elements. A quick search threw this thread (which I'm afraid is not very conclusive): http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/15c7e426fc571e26

[sage-support] solve() behavior

2008-03-26 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, While trying to compute the Golden ratio using SAGE I noticed the following strange (to me) behavior in solve(). * This fails: sage: var('a b phi') (a, b, phi) sage: solve([phi==a/b, phi==(a+b)/a], phi) --- T

[sage-support] Re: Embed arbitrary images in notebook

2008-03-25 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:12 AM, DuaneKaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I would like the image to be stored _with_ (or as part of) the > worksheet, on the server, so it is available for anyone who views the > worksheet. > > I hope that is clear enough. Thanks for the suggestion though

[sage-support] Re: Reserved words

2008-03-06 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:05 PM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 6, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Hector Villafuerte wrote: ... > > Yep, that's what I meant (reserved words, aka keywords); to expect > > behavior like this: > > > > sage: l

[sage-support] Re: Reserved words

2008-03-06 Thread Hector Villafuerte
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jason Grout > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > What does "reserved words" mean? Do you mean that we should throw an > > error when those variables are assigned? I don't think that would be > > possible without some deep tinkering in python. Hi Jason

[sage-support] Reserved words

2008-03-06 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, this just happened to me (maybe because I'm annoyingly slow today...): sage: var('t') sage: x(t) = sin(2*pi*1000*t) + 1/2*sin(2*pi*2000*t + 3/4*pi) Exception (click to the left for traceback): ... TypeError: unsupported operand parent(s) for '*': 'Integer Ring' and '' It took me about 10

[sage-support] Re: Vector fields and Quivers

2008-03-05 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hector Villafuerte wrote: ... > > So my question: is there a SAGEly way to plot this type of vector fields? > > Thanks in advance! > > There is now! It turned out to be a pretty simp

[sage-support] SAGE, VMware, Mac OS X

2008-02-15 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I've been quite happy using SAGE Mac OS X Binaries (on OS X 10.4). I also use SAGE on an Ubuntu Linux desktop. It's just that sometimes I miss some of SAGE's (original?) functionality while using the Mac, e.g. 'animate' needs 'convert'. So my question is: has somebody successfully used SAGE's

[sage-support] Re: diff() Docstring

2008-02-15 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:43 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 15, 2008 4:36 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On SAGE Version 2.9.2, diff's Docstring is: > > > > "If you s

[sage-support] diff() Docstring

2008-02-15 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On SAGE Version 2.9.2, diff's Docstring is: "If you supply a variable x followed by a number n, then it will differentiate with respect to n times with respect to n." Should be something like: "If you supply a variable x followed by a number n, then it will differentiate n times with respect to

[sage-support] Limits and recurrence relations

2008-02-02 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, is there a way in SAGE to handle recurrences? Say, determine the closed-form expression, or the limit as n goes to infinity, of something like: r_0 = sqrt(a), where a>0 r_n = sqrt(a + r_{n-1}) Now, experimenting with SAGE (and using some basic Calculus), I've noticed that this recurrence co

[sage-support] audio processing

2008-01-21 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I'm planning on using SAGE for some digital signal processing experimentation, and I wonder if there's a way to handle audio on it. For example; opening a wav, doing some filtering or DSP magic and playing the result back (maybe using an applet like Wikipedia does). Any ideas? Thanks in advanc

[sage-support] jmol and Camino

2008-01-16 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I get this error on Camino (... don't ask): ReferenceError: _jmolInitCheck is not defined While trying to plot this: var('v') f1 = (x, x*sin(v), x*cos(v)) parametric_plot3d(f1, (x,0,5), (v,0,2*pi)) I must say that this works great in Firefox and Safari, I just thought you would like to kno

[sage-support] corrupt file?

2007-12-28 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Has anybody had any trouble uncompressing the Ubuntu version of sage-2.9.1? http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/linux/32bit/sage-2.9.1-linux-ubuntu-32bit-i686-Linux.tar.gz it seems to be corrupt. Thanks in advance. -- Hector --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group,