[sage-support] Symbolic functions (?) problems

2012-12-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
I am in the process of learning Sage, coming from Maxima (and Mathematica, which I do not like much...). Cut'n'pastes from a notebook running on sagenb.org version() version() ==> 'Sage Version 5.4, Release Date: 2012-11-09' var('t,a,b,d') ## beta density dbeta(t,a,b)=t^(a-1)*(1-t)^(b-1)/bet

[sage-support] Symbolic functions

2007-08-27 Thread Justin Walker
Hi, all, I want to create a "function" within a function, and return it as the value of the latter function, something along the lines of: def g(a,b,c): var('x y') f = a*x^2 + b*y + c return f This works, almost. I have to invoke the return value as a function returning a functio