[sage-support] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | > "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > > | > | Martin Rubey wrote: > |

[sage-support] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Martin Rubey wrote: > | > By the way, I think that "axiom.someop" should become "fricas.someop" in > SAGE. > | > "axiom" is (meanwhile) quite misleading, FriCAS and ax

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-23 Thread William Stein
Martin Rubey wrote: > By the way, I think that "axiom.someop" should become "fricas.someop" in SAGE. > "axiom" is (meanwhile) quite misleading, FriCAS and axiom have parted. Could the people involved in Sage/Fricas/Axiom vote on this? If they vote for the change, somebody can post a patch on the

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-23 Thread Martin Rubey
"William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Axiom? Axiom does *elementary* integration. That is, if the Risch algorithm applies, it will find the result except in a few cases. It does have some pattern matching abilities, but these are not really worth mentioning. FriCAS (axiom fork,

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-23 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 23, 8:34 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I would like to see happen soon is some of the basic cases   > solved in our own code, and then passing off to some other library   > for the harder cases. here is a blogposting about some of the difficulties: http://blog.wol

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2008, at 3:39 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> As for the option to use Maple/Mathematica, I think as long as there >>> is relatively

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-23 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 3:39 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> As for the option to use Maple/Mathematica, I think as long as there >> is relatively good conversion of expressions, it's best to just let >> the user call the Mapl

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for the option to use Maple/Mathematica, I think as long as there > is relatively good conversion of expressions, it's best to just let > the user call the Maple/Mathematica command directly. Otherwise, you > need to write

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 2:34 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > I only know a tiny bit about symbolic integration, but mabshoff's > statement that it will be a long path is certainly an understatement. > What I would like to see happen soon is some of the basic cases > solved in our own code, and then pa

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 22, 11:34 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > I only know a tiny bit about symbolic integration, but mabshoff's   > statement that it will be a long path is certainly an understatement.   > What I would like to see happen so

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > On Nov 23, 2008, at 2:00 AM, mabshoff wrote: >> >> It is my understand that it cannot compete with MMA or Maple there >> and >> various people have claimed that Maxima's integration code is better >> than the code in Axiom. I do not know if that

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 2:00 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > It is my understand that it cannot compete with MMA or Maple there and > various people have claimed that Maxima's integration code is better > than the code in Axiom. I do not know if that is true. Anyway, in the > next Maxima release there will b

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 22, 10:56 pm, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > It's my understanding that Axiom is best in breed for integration, so > it may be best to use that. It is my understand that it cannot compete with MMA or Maple there and various p

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > Ginac (on which Pynac is based) doesn't have any nontrivial symbolic > integration. So that's going to continue to depend on Maxima until > we: > >* write our own >* switch to using sympy for integration (sympy does some > integra

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:01 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> As a fellow Maple user, I highly recommend that you look at the new >>> symbolics

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:01 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> As a fellow Maple user, I highly recommend that you look at the new >> symbolics in Sage, pynac. While support is still incomplete, it has >> capabilities more si

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:15 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: > Tim, > > Here is a link to the discussion > > http://www.mapleprimes.com/forum/cpu-use > > I am a teacher and I used Maple quite a bit to make tests and > handouts. It seemed to only happen in document mode where I was using > pretty much just

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: >> A while ago, I was running Sage on a ibook G4 with 10.3.x (but then >> upgraded to 10.4 when it came out). I don't remember any problems with >> Sage (other than long compilation times). > > I think that's not possible because I believe Sage has ne

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Madden
On Nov 22, 9:34 pm, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: > > > I will have to if I ever want to get any sleep again. But only > > temporarily because I am having too much fun with it! > > > Michael, > > > I think I became aware of Sage about t

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: > >> I will have to if I ever want to get any sleep again. But only >> temporarily because I am having too much fun with it! >> >> Michael, >> >> I think I became aware of S

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 22, 9:50 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Madden wrote: Hi, > > I think I became aware of Sage about two years ago. At that time I was > > using Maple and was content but the idea behind Sage really interested > > me so I would periodically check up on it. Almost a ye

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Jason Grout
Thomas Madden wrote: > > > I think I became aware of Sage about two years ago. At that time I was > using Maple and was content but the idea behind Sage really interested > me so I would periodically check up on it. Almost a year ago I noticed > that my %CPU use was maxing out when I was working

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: > I will have to if I ever want to get any sleep again. But only > temporarily because I am having too much fun with it! > > Michael, > > I think I became aware of Sage about two years ago. At that time I was > using Maple and was content but the

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Madden
On Nov 22, 8:16 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Nov 22, 8:14 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Thomas Madden > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 22, 8:14 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Thomas Madden > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden > > > [snip] > > > William an

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Thomas Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden >> > > [snip] > > William and David, > > Thanks very much for the quick responses. I have been keeping >

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Madden
On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden > [snip] William and David, Thanks very much for the quick responses. I have been keeping an eye on Sage for about a year or so now but was unable to use it due to hardware and OS co

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the simple question, but I don't know if I am quitting sage > properly or even if it matters. I am new to open source and have > little experience using Terminal. I am using OS X 10.5.5 and Safari > 3.2. If I s

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Thomas Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the simple question, but I don't know if I am quitting sage > properly or even if it matters. I am new to open source and have > little experience using Terminal. I am using OS X 10.5.5 and Safari > 3.2. If I s