[sage-support] Re: version()/clone question

2008-04-27 Thread bill purvis
avid Joyner > I'd vote +1 for this too! Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +---+ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegro

[sage-support] Re: Simple continued fractions in Pari

2008-05-01 Thread bill purvis
expressions as entries in > the list. > > Dan Thanks for the suggestion. That means I can handle the existing stuff as a special case (no sublists). I've not been able to afford a copy of Mathmatica (impoverished, retired, software engineer) so I was unaware of what it provided.

[sage-support] Re: Simple continued fractions in Pari

2008-05-01 Thread bill purvis
demands on my time, so don't expect anything this week! ;-) Bill -- +-------+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +---+ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[sage-support] Re: Simple continued fractions in Pari

2008-05-06 Thread bill purvis
uedFraction is at > http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/ContinuedFraction.html > > Carl > Thanks, Carl. Bill -- +-------+ | Bill Purvis, Web Designer

[sage-support] Can't find my way around Sage source code

2007-12-23 Thread bill purvis
here is the EllipticCurve stuff defined? The particular function is .point_search. Many thanks, Bill -- +-------+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ht

[sage-support] Re: bug in squaring complex numbers?

2008-01-04 Thread bill purvis
73691981e-310j) > > > > --mb > Pretty gross rounding error to get +1 instead of -1. Just checked it on my 2.9.0. Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://bil.members.beeb.net | +---

[sage-support] Re: Sage LAN server

2008-01-09 Thread bill purvis
ructure.sage_object.loads zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check Any suggestion as to what has gone wrong and how to get out of it? Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician

[sage-support] Re: Sage LAN server

2008-01-09 Thread bill purvis
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, bill purvis wrote: > On Wednesday 09 January 2008, William Stein wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 6:53 AM, Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First let me say that I am a sage-newbie. I work at a high-school in > > > Sweden as a math te

[sage-support] Re: Sage LAN server

2008-01-10 Thread bill purvis
arlier, this is still 2.9 (.0). I'm having disk space problems so I've not downloaded anything more recent until I have resolved that problem. Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http:/

[sage-support] Re: Sage LAN server

2008-01-13 Thread bill purvis
On Sunday 13 January 2008, William Stein wrote: > On 1/10/08, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 10 January 2008, William Stein wrote: > > > ... > > > ... > > > For efficiency reasons that nb.sobj is not compressed. Do: >

[sage-support] Re: Sage LAN server

2008-01-14 Thread bill purvis
gets written back when the notebook closes down. Is this something worthwhile pursuing? I'll have a dig around and see what I can figure out Bill -- +

[sage-support] Re: Doc Day 1 announcement: January 17th, 2008, 9am-5pm PST

2008-01-16 Thread bill purvis
d like to second that. I don't think I'll be able to participate in this doc day due to the time difference (I think PST is 8 hours behind GMT). Also, I've never used IRC before so it will be a learning exercise if I do get to join in. Bill -- +---+

[sage-support] Re: Problems with standalone python/sage scripts

2008-01-19 Thread bill purvis
On Saturday 19 January 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 7:38 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2008 10:00 PM, Georg Grafendorfer > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael, > > > OK, i'm already a bit confused, and i don't know any more what your > > > r

[sage-support] Re: Sage 2.10 released!

2008-01-19 Thread bill purvis
sk: Is it safe to assume that 2.10 is essentially the same as 2.10.alpha4? If not can I simply apply a few fixes to save the effort of downloading, compiling and testing everything? Bill -- +-------+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| |

[sage-support] Re: Sage 2.10 released!

2008-01-19 Thread bill purvis
On Saturday 19 January 2008, William Stein wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 7:39 AM, mabshoff > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 19, 12:06 pm, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 19 January 2008, mabshoff wrote:> Hello folks, >

[sage-support] Re: Sage LAN server

2008-01-20 Thread bill purvis
ply. Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://bil.members.beeb.net | +---+ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sa

[sage-support] Re: printing long lines from notebook

2008-01-24 Thread bill purvis
ented a little or there was some mark in the margin it would be clearer. I hadn't seen the option to click in the left of the output area, except when an error occurs and it explicitly suggests that to get a trace-back. Thanks for the info. Bill -- +--

[sage-support] Re: Warnings from JsMath

2008-01-24 Thread bill purvis
otebook server expects to find them. I thought they were included as part of the Sage distribution, anyway? Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://bil.members.beeb.net | +---

[sage-support] Re: Warnings from JsMath

2008-01-25 Thread bill purvis
On Friday 25 January 2008, Timothy Clemans wrote: > See http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsmath/download/jsMath-fonts.html. > There are install instructions for PC, Mac OS X, and Unix users. > > On Jan 24, 11:45 pm, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, but what about Sag

[sage-support] Re: Warnings from JsMath

2008-01-27 Thread bill purvis
These > possibilities are documented at > > http://www.math.union.edu/locate/jsMath/authors/warnings.html > > so the sage project could set up the messages in a different way if it > wants to. > > Davide Davide, see my earlier message to William. Apologi

[sage-support] Re: Warnings from JsMath

2008-01-27 Thread bill purvis
On Friday 25 January 2008, William Stein wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 4:49 AM, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 25 January 2008, Timothy Clemans wrote: > > > See http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsmath/download/jsMath-fonts.html. > > > There are in

[sage-support] Re: Warnings from JsMath

2008-01-27 Thread bill purvis
On Friday 25 January 2008, William Stein wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 4:49 AM, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 25 January 2008, Timothy Clemans wrote: > > > See http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsmath/download/jsMath-fonts.html. > > > There are in

[sage-support] Typo in Sage Reference Manual

2008-02-12 Thread bill purvis
#x27;? Just did a check on the HTML source and it's on line 196. (This the online html from www.sagemath.org) Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[sage-support] Odd behaviour of parametric_plot

2008-02-12 Thread bill purvis
ing something totally stupid or is there a bug here? Bill (still running 2.10.1.rc3 on Linux, Ubuntu 7.10 on a Toshiba Equium laptop) -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://bil.mem

[sage-support] Re: notebook documentation question

2008-02-13 Thread bill purvis
recall having any difficulty, apart from remembering to press the shift key each time until I got used to it. Just checked the Tutorial and there is a very brief mention of Shift-Enter on the last line, where it talks about hitting Esc for help. Tried the Help again and it's fairly obvious in

[sage-support] Re: Another possible bug in parametric_plot/show

2008-02-16 Thread bill purvis
t; > You are defining f twice, first as a function then as a graphics > object. You need to pick a different name for one or the other. > > Carl > Must be old age creeping on! Many thanks for spotting that. Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mat

[sage-support] Re: Odd behaviour of parametric_plot

2008-02-16 Thread bill purvis
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Carl Witty wrote: > On Feb 12, 2:07 am, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wanted to make a plot of x^3+y^3=1729 (the well-known taxicab problem). > > I'm sure there are better ways of acieving this but I opted for a naive > &g

[sage-support] Re: Another possible bug in parametric_plot/show

2008-02-16 Thread bill purvis
e is called "Text"; if > you press that, you get a plain text version of your worksheet, > which you can then copy/paste/etc. > > Best, > Alex Many thanks, that's another new thing I learned today! Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateu