[sage-support] Re: Two questions concerning solve

2008-12-17 Thread Simon King
Dear Michael, On Dec 17, 9:08 pm, mabshoff wrote: > The 0.07 seconds is the CPU time we spend on the Sage side to > communicate with Maxima, the rest is probably starting Maxima, > communicating and then the solve on Maxima's side also. As you well > know there is this general slowdown effect wh

[sage-support] Re: Two questions concerning solve

2008-12-17 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 17, 2008, at 11:49 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Simon King jena.de> wrote: >> >> Dear Sage supporters, >> >> inspired by http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/ >> browse_thread/thread/729f4a557d970195?hl=en, >> I was playing around with the solve com

[sage-support] Re: Two questions concerning solve

2008-12-17 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 17, 11:41 am, Simon King wrote: > Dear Sage supporters, Hi Simon, > 2. Why does it take so long to return the solution dictionary? > From the solve-docstring: >  sage: ct=cputime() >  sage: time solve([x^2+y^2 == 1, y^2 == x^3 + x + 1], x, y, > solution_dict=True) >  CPU times: user

[sage-support] Re: Two questions concerning solve

2008-12-17 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Simon King wrote: > > Dear Sage supporters, > > inspired by > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/729f4a557d970195?hl=en, > I was playing around with the solve command. > > I found two questions: > 1. How can one add assumptions (such