[sage-devel] Re: [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > Sage shouldn't support Debian. Debian should support Sage. On a perhaps related note, Sage used to be about "building the car", didn't it¹? I find it ironic how hard sage makes it for other projects to rely on it in the way it itself relies on tons of third-party package

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Anne Schilling
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 4:34:38 PM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: > > +1 for SageMath > > > Also, +1 to CamelCase. We do have class! ;-) > +1 Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread kcrisman
> > > Also, +1 to CamelCase. We do have class! ;-) > What about sageMath sage_Math Sage_math Or to really find empty trademark space: Math Ages Seat Ham G Tag As Meh Team Gash Shag Meat Has Mega T Ah, Tags Me -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Volker Braun
+1 for SageMath Also, +1 to CamelCase. We do have class! ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew
I think SageMath is a good idea and there are far too many projects called SAGE. To me SageMath sounds much better than SageMaths, which I find curious as in Australian English "Math" sounds awkward/wrong. Andrew On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 23:13:46 UTC+11, William wrote: > > Hi Sage Develo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 2015-02-18, Nils Bruin wrote: > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 9:54:22 AM UTC-8, kcrisman wrote: > >> Or translations? Since "sage" and "math" are both *things* in many >> (most?) languages... or is literal translation not useful with Sage, since >> the erstwhile acronym wouldn't wo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 2015-02-18, John Cremona wrote: > On 18 February 2015 at 12:13, William Stein wrote: >> Personally, in the very long run I think this is the right thing to do >> to help our users avoid confusion and to be respectful to the many >> other projects called just "Sage". I don't want this to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Jonathan
+1 for sagemath or SageMath. It would definitely be better than continuing to call it Sage. Jonathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 21:22, François Bissey a écrit : On 02/19/15 01:25, Julien Puydt wrote: Hi, Le 18/02/2015 13:13, William Stein a écrit : Hi Sage Developers, Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Jan Groenewald
Please definitely not CamelCase. It would be an over-indulgence to go python style sage_math. But [Ss]agemath is surely best. Regards, Jan On 18 February 2015 at 22:24, Dominique Laurain < dominique.laurai...@orange.fr> wrote: > +1 for SageMath > > from an old generation frenchie who prefers

[sage-devel] Re: We can now have pictures in our documentation

2015-02-18 Thread Dominique Laurain
Bravo et merci -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googleg

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Dominique Laurain
+1 for SageMath from an old generation frenchie who prefers "les maths" (plural) but agree for Math addendum which is very good improvement when you are searching Internet about Sage "SageMath" not sounding bad at all.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread François Bissey
On 02/19/15 01:25, Julien Puydt wrote: Hi, Le 18/02/2015 13:13, William Stein a écrit : Hi Sage Developers, Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bo

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 19:48, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 19:35, Julien Puydt wrote: Was such a backport really necessary ? Well, you could always roll back #14894, but that's not exactly progress. Couldn't the same have been achieved using what's already available ? I'm pretty sure the

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 19:35, Julien Puydt wrote: Was such a backport really necessary ? Well, you could always roll back #14894, but that's not exactly progress. Couldn't the same have been achieved using what's already available ? I'm pretty sure the answer is "no". The upstream patch was actually r

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 19:15, maldun a écrit : Maybe I'm missing something here, but aren't these test also badly stated? This would be a good example why some tolerance should be included if one test something with floating points: Every small change in some flop somewhere in the code will lead to a fai

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 19:24, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 18:59, Julien Puydt wrote: When I asked Bill about the cb_pari_err_handle patch, he asked why sage wasn't using the standard pari error trapping mechanism. That patch is a pure backport from upstream git. So what Sage uses is a PARI

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Nils Bruin
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 9:54:22 AM UTC-8, kcrisman wrote: > Or translations? Since "sage" and "math" are both *things* in many > (most?) languages... or is literal translation not useful with Sage, since > the erstwhile acronym wouldn't work? > And end up with something like "saliew

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Vincent Delecroix
2015-02-18 19:24 UTC+01:00, Jeroen Demeyer : > On 2015-02-18 18:59, Julien Puydt wrote: >> When I asked Bill about the cb_pari_err_handle patch, he asked why sage >> wasn't using the standard pari error trapping mechanism. > That patch is a pure backport from upstream git. So what Sage uses is a >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 18:54, kcrisman wrote: Or translations? Normally, you don't translate software names. "Windows" doesn't become "Fenêtres" in French for example... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 18:59, Julien Puydt wrote: When I asked Bill about the cb_pari_err_handle patch, he asked why sage wasn't using the standard pari error trapping mechanism. That patch is a pure backport from upstream git. So what Sage uses is a PARI error handling mechanism which is standard in PAR

[sage-devel] Re: [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread maldun
Maybe I'm missing something here, but aren't these test also badly stated? This would be a good example why some tolerance should be included if one test something with floating points: Every small change in some flop somewhere in the code will lead to a fail. I personally wouldn't call something

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 18:42, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 18:04, Julien Puydt wrote: In fact, whenever sage-the-distribution pretends to package a software "foo" version "3.14", but patches it left and right, breaking both the API and the ABI, that is a problem not only for debian, but for all

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread kcrisman
> > > I think capitalization is a language-specific ingredient that is not > intrinsically part of the latin script, so I think it's reasonable to *not* > prescribe a particular capitalization pattern with the name. > > In style guides it's of course quite appropriate to prescribe preferred > c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Nils Bruin
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 4:13:46 AM UTC-8, William wrote: > > Hi Sage Developers, > > Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name > of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url > (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bought it in

[sage-devel] Intro

2015-02-18 Thread ramcha1994
Hi, I am Ramchandran, I am currently studying Mathematics and Computer Science in BITS Pilani - Goa Campus , India. I am passionate about mathematics and would love to contribute to sage but this would be my first open source experience. I have prior experience in coding with Python using nump

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Thierry wrote: > and explain that > "sagemath" leads to better results in web searches. btw, you get the by far best search result for "math software" (in google and startpage, not bing/yahoo) :-) -- harald -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 18:04, Julien Puydt wrote: In fact, whenever sage-the-distribution pretends to package a software "foo" version "3.14", but patches it left and right, breaking both the API and the ABI, that is a problem not only for debian, but for all serious distributions... But what's the solut

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 17:59, Bruno Grenet wrote: It would be nice for both Debian and Sage to have Sage included in Debian. Nice, yes, but not at any cost. There are advantages, but we should also consider the disadvantages. The fact that Sage could only use stable, unpatched versions of packages wou

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 18:21, Volker Braun a écrit : On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 5:28:27 PM UTC+1, vdelecroix wrote: I mean that we will not release a Sage version that would not support debian packaging. -1 to delaying a Sage version for $DISTRO to catch up. Agreed! Snark on #sagemath -

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 17:59, Bruno Grenet a écrit : Le 18/02/2015 17:44, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 17:22, Vincent Delecroix wrote: Julien built an almost working prototype for a native sage on debian. This implies out of the box installation for a lot of users (and potentially much cleaner

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Volker Braun
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 5:28:27 PM UTC+1, vdelecroix wrote: > > I mean that we will not release a Sage version that would not support > debian packaging. -1 to delaying a Sage version for $DISTRO to catch up. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Thierry
Hi, i already use "a.k.a. sagemath" on my presentations, and explain that "sagemath" leads to better results in web searches. I really much prefer Sagemath or sagemath than the CamelCase SageMath or plural SageMaths, the only place i see CamelCase used in France are old wikis. So, +1 for Sagemat

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Stefan
+1 to SageMath. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegrou

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 17:19, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 15:51, Julien Puydt wrote: Debian has pari 2.7.2 (packaged by Bill Allombert himself, so I guess he knows what he's doing), while sage has 2.7.1. How do you deal with the patches to PARI that Sage applies? I don't think that Sage even

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Bruno Grenet
Le 18/02/2015 17:44, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 17:22, Vincent Delecroix wrote: Julien built an almost working prototype for a native sage on debian. This implies out of the box installation for a lot of users (and potentially much cleaner integration of third party softwares). The

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le 18/02/2015 17:06, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 16:46, Julien Puydt wrote: Le 18/02/2015 15:57, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 15:51, Julien Puydt wrote: Is pari's output changing that often, that failing doctests could have so little meaning? Yes. Then perhaps it's

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 17:22, Vincent Delecroix wrote: Julien built an almost working prototype for a native sage on debian. This implies out of the box installation for a lot of users (and potentially much cleaner integration of third party softwares). The real question is: does the Sage community

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 1:13:46 PM UTC+1, William wrote: > > "SageMath", like the website url ... > +1 from me. Hence this is #30 here: https://github.com/sagemath/website/issues/30 -- Harald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Vincent Delecroix
2015-02-18 17:25 UTC+01:00, William Stein : > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Vincent Delecroix > <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2015-02-18 17:06 UTC+01:00, Jeroen Demeyer : >>> On 2015-02-18 16:46, Julien Puydt wrote: Le 18/02/2015 15:57, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : > On 2015-02-18

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-02-18 17:06 UTC+01:00, Jeroen Demeyer : >> On 2015-02-18 16:46, Julien Puydt wrote: >>> Le 18/02/2015 15:57, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 15:51, Julien Puydt wrote: > Is pari's output ch

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Thierry Dumont
Le 18/02/2015 17:03, mmarco a écrit : > +1 to the change. > > Sagemath sounds more natural than Sagemaths to me. > > Should we update the way to cite it accordingly? > As a French guy, I would remark that our Holy Nicolas Bourbaki would certainly appreciate "Sagemath" or "SageMath" but not "Sag

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Vincent Delecroix
2015-02-18 17:06 UTC+01:00, Jeroen Demeyer : > On 2015-02-18 16:46, Julien Puydt wrote: >> Le 18/02/2015 15:57, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : >>> On 2015-02-18 15:51, Julien Puydt wrote: Is pari's output changing that often, that failing doctests could have so little meaning? >>> Yes. >> >> Th

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 15:51, Julien Puydt wrote: Debian has pari 2.7.2 (packaged by Bill Allombert himself, so I guess he knows what he's doing), while sage has 2.7.1. How do you deal with the patches to PARI that Sage applies? I don't think that Sage even compiles with vanilla PARI 2.7.x. -- You rece

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 16:46, Julien Puydt wrote: Le 18/02/2015 15:57, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 15:51, Julien Puydt wrote: Is pari's output changing that often, that failing doctests could have so little meaning? Yes. Then perhaps it's a good idea to replace those two results (32-bit an

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread mmarco
+1 to the change. Sagemath sounds more natural than Sagemaths to me. Should we update the way to cite it accordingly? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 18/02/2015 15:57, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 15:51, Julien Puydt wrote: Is pari's output changing that often, that failing doctests could have so little meaning? Yes. Then perhaps it's a good idea to replace those two results (32-bit and 64-bit) by a single "tol" one? Snark

[sage-devel] Sage Days 67 at PyCon

2015-02-18 Thread Viviane Pons
Hi everyone, here is a second call to invite you to participate to Sage Days and PyCon this spring in Montreal: PyCon: April 8 -12 Sage Days: April 13 - 16 (during PyCon sprints) All informations here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days67 Especially, if you intend to come to PyCon: register quicly!

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Martin Albrecht
+1 from me. On Wednesday 18 Feb 2015 07:13:03 William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage Developers, > > Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name > of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url > (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bought it in 200

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 15:51, Julien Puydt wrote: Is pari's output changing that often, that failing doctests could have so little meaning? Yes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le 18/02/2015 15:21, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2015-02-18 13:53, Julien Puydt wrote: Hi, I'm having strange numerical behaviour with my experimental sage using debian packages Which versions of Sage and PARI do you use? I guess that's the difference. Debian has pari 2.7.2 (packaged b

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 13:13, William Stein wrote: The actual command name and "sage:" prompt wouldn't change Good. I would find it annoying if any of these changed. I agree with everything you said and I prefer "SageMath" to "SageMaths". In fact "SageMath" is already used in some places precisely becau

Re: [sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-02-18 13:53, Julien Puydt wrote: Hi, I'm having strange numerical behaviour with my experimental sage using debian packages Which versions of Sage and PARI do you use? I guess that's the difference. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-dev

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi 0 jan@muizenberg:~$dpkg -S /usr/bin/sagemath sagemath-upstream-binary: /usr/bin/sagemath I've already added that in the PPA due to the same reasons ;) And it lives in /usr/lib/sagemath. I'd advocate even chaging the command line on the long run (support both for a few years). Most important -

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Good idea. The current situation is confusing. What is the motivation > for the Caml case instead of "sagemath" or "Sagemath"? > > In the same time we could update the awful mission statement to > someth

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Bill Hart
I've been out of Australia now for a decade or so, but I'm not North American and SageMath sounds fine to me. Actually, when I saw the name SageMaths I thought, "why on earth would anyone call something SageMaths", and then I realised the Maths was a non-American abbreviation for Mathematics th

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Hi, Good idea. The current situation is confusing. What is the motivation for the Caml case instead of "sagemath" or "Sagemath"? In the same time we could update the awful mission statement to something more positive like: "Open source mathematics". The are a lot of bullshit in the Ma's and I do

[sage-devel] [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, I'm having strange numerical behaviour with my experimental sage using debian packages, with two failing doctests in the src/sage/libs/pari/ directory (both in gen.pyx) : Failed example: (s*z)^5 Expected: 2.00 - 1.08420217248550 E-19*I Got: 2.00 + 0.E-1

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread John Cremona
On 18 February 2015 at 12:13, William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage Developers, > > Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name > of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url > (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bought it in 2006).One > moti

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le 18/02/2015 13:13, William Stein a écrit : Hi Sage Developers, Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bought it in 2006).One motivation is t

Re: [sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:13 AM, William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage Developers, > > Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name > of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url > (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bought it in 2006).One > m

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sharing homework on Github

2015-02-18 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Ralf Stephan wrote: > Not to mutate this thread but comparing software with buildings > rarely takes requirement changes into account, like changed use > of buildings, or, with Sage, tool changes like Py2-->3. Which > seems stalling at a point where the easy fixes

[sage-devel] Sage is grown up; needs a last name

2015-02-18 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage Developers, Several people and events have suggested to me that the official name of "Sage" should be filled out to be "SageMath", like the website url (which is sagemath.org and has been since I bought it in 2006).One motivation is that a trademark search [1] for Sage shows over 1100

[sage-devel] We can now have pictures in our documentation

2015-02-18 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody, This email is just here to share the news that our documentation can now "relatively easily" be improved by sage-generated pictures. This feature appeared in Sage 6.6.beta0. To draw the function x->x^2 in a docstring, you have to write the following: .. PLOT:: sphin