[sage-support] Re: sqrt(16)

2009-10-29 Thread Jason Grout
Burcin Erocal wrote: > > I have an idea how to "hold" symbolic expressions so they are not > evaluated automatically, but it will be at least a week before I can > test it and submit a patch. Burcin, A friend I just today were talking about Sage getting in the near future a "hold" parameter,

[sage-support] Re: sqrt(16)

2009-10-23 Thread Mikie
Thanks, Burcin. I tried using a string rep, but it still evaluates in my Python script. On Oct 23, 1:12 am, Burcin Erocal wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:16:32 -0700 (PDT) > > Mikie wrote: > > I want to take the expression sqrt(16) from a function parameter and > > return the sqrt(16) not 4.  

[sage-support] Re: sqrt(16)

2009-10-23 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Mikie wrote: > I want to take the expression sqrt(16) from a function parameter and > return the sqrt(16) not 4. Is this possible? Not right now, sorry. I have an idea how to "hold" symbolic expressions so they are not evaluated automatically, but it