Res: [sage-devel] Re: Bug: Elliptic Curve Point Counting

2010-03-27 Thread Ronan Paixão
One question: will Pari 2.4 be here to stay? If so, then it's (eventually) inevitable that a port will have to be made. However, I'm not familiar with Pari's development, so I don't know if the new API is stable enough yet to justify a port. Ronan De:

[sage-devel] Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Ronan Paixão
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Res: [sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Ronan Paixão
Congratulations! Ronan De: William Stein wst...@gmail.com Para: sage-devel sage-devel@googlegroups.com; Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com Enviadas: Domingo, 21 de Março de 2010 15:14:55 Assunto: [sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced! Hello,

[sage-devel] Re: Poll: which debugger do you use?

2009-06-18 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Qui, 2009-06-18 às 20:41 +0200, William Stein escreveu: My most important debugging tool is logical deduction using my brain. -- William Sounds very deep and witty. That's gotta become a quote on slashdot. Ronan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this

[sage-devel] Re: Web page looks pretty poor compared to Mathematica's

2009-05-26 Thread Ronan Paixão
I'm no expert in design, but from what I can get from my personal feel: from the Mathematica site, what I think called the attention of the OP is that it's red. Simply as that. From the wikipedia page on Marketing (which by the way seems pretty informational): Requirements of a good

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Qua, 2009-05-06 às 00:29 -0700, William Stein escreveu: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: What about publishing (collections of) worksheets under the CC license? Code snippets in books? Are your books GPL compatible? (Maybe you could

[sage-devel] Re: deprecating calling of symbolic expressions without variable names

2009-03-15 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Dom, 2009-03-15 às 17:11 -0700, kcrisman escreveu: Wouldn't it be clearer if the error message read NameError: name 't' is not defined, try var('t') beforehand or something similar? Perhaps as Carl deprecates common anticipated behaviors he'd be open to having his patch

[sage-devel] Re: 3d display: x3d?

2009-03-10 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Seg, 2009-03-09 às 11:11 -0700, Robert Bradshaw escreveu: On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Mar 8, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: On 03/08/09 19:19, William

[sage-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-08 Thread Ronan Paixão
+10 This is why I copied the notebook section as an example from the list for 2008. Even though I would expect Google to be interested in funding open source implementations of maths, I think it would be better if we focus on the computer science/engineering side of things. If we are

[sage-devel] Re: Naming convention again...

2009-02-28 Thread Ronan Paixão
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[sage-devel] Re: non-english chars causing run-time errors in a clone

2009-02-28 Thread Ronan Paixão
Personally I'd vote for making all files utf-8 encoded. That would increase accuracy in names and would also enable easier translations for all languages under the sky. Ronan Em Sex, 2009-02-27 às 13:57 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: On Feb 27, 1:44 pm, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com

[sage-devel] Re: Idea solicitation for semester-long algebra project

2009-02-27 Thread Ronan Paixão
I'm not a mathematician, but a good idea could be improving Piecewise functions. Ronan Em Qua, 2009-02-25 às 14:38 -0600, Francisco Veach escreveu: I'm planning a semester-long project for the fall that will involve implementing/improving algebra related functions of Sage. I'm taking this

[sage-devel] Re: Interaction with SymPy and other packages

2009-02-23 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Sáb, 2009-02-21 às 07:57 -0800, Maurizio escreveu: I admit that I've never heard of Pynac. Actually there are two Pynac's out there, one of them is a sage insider project to replace Maxima as a symbolics backend, since that greatly impacts performance and builds. I am wondering what do

[sage-devel] Re: error in calulations, big numbers, etc...

2009-02-07 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Sex, 2009-02-06 às 22:18 +0200, ahmet alper parker escreveu: One more comment on the subject. As we were trying to solve a Sturm-Lioville boundary value problem by finite difference method, we calculated eigenvalues and eigenvectors of some matrices on matlab and mathematica. In both of

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days 12 Final Report Summary

2009-02-07 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Sex, 2009-02-06 às 12:59 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: On Feb 6, 9:53 am, Ronan Paixão ronanpai...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Em Ter, 2009-01-27 às 06:13 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: SNIP Hi Ronan, I'm against all that SUA stuff. I completely agree it's a great help to get sage running

[sage-devel] Re: Paul Zimmermann's talk on wiki

2009-02-07 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Sáb, 2009-02-07 às 11:52 +1100, Minh Nguyen escreveu: Hi folks, Paul Zimmermann delivered a talk on Sage on 2009-01-19. This information has been added to the Sage talks wiki at http://wiki.sagemath.org/Talks Thank you, Paul, for your effort in spreading the word about Sage. He

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
Of course, concerns about security and usability may well restrict the privileges to a specific subset of Sage's commands and fraction of server resources. Still, it would be great if Wikipedia entries, say, could include pertinent, pedagogical gadgets to illustrate concepts which are

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reddit: Mathematica No Longer World's Most Expensive Calculator?

2009-02-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Qua, 2009-02-04 às 17:44 -0800, William Stein escreveu: You are of course welcome to believe this, but the major competition for Mathematica is probably not Sage, but Matlab. For many engineering applications Matlab blows Mathematica out of the water, and I wouldn't even consider

[sage-devel] Re: python vs java for scientific computing

2009-02-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Sex, 2009-01-23 às 09:49 -0800, rjf escreveu: On Jan 22, 6:26 pm, mhampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: ... A python/ cython/javascript spreadsheet for the Sage notebook would be great - unfortunately I'm not going to write one. I think it would be hard to do it right. -M.

[sage-devel] Re: sage talk

2009-02-05 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Seg, 2009-02-02 às 15:56 -0800, Roman Pearce escreveu: A new version of Maple is only released every year, and there are lots of people who expect their 10 year old code to run. It's almost a Microsoft-like situation. And since people have to pay for upgrades there's an entirely

[sage-devel] Re: Windows

2009-01-28 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Dom, 2009-01-25 às 18:04 -0800, kcrisman escreveu: Will there be a sage.exe file (or something like that) that my students can download straight from sagemath.org and use right away on a Windows machine? I believe this is the big point of the whole thread. Even though sage's users

[sage-devel] Re: building with 512MB RAM?

2009-01-09 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Qui, 2009-01-08 às 14:41 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: SNIP The gcc memory requirements are not consistent, i.e. gcc 3.4.x does compile the LinBox extension using about 350 MB peak or so. For gcc 4.x it seems that maybe 750 MB is peak consumption. So I am not sure what to do, i.e. if we make

[sage-devel] Re: transform html with sage code to html+png

2009-01-02 Thread Ronan Paixão
http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/output/html/en/bordeaux_2008/ http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/output/pdf/en/bordeaux_2008/bordeaux_2008.pdf Those look beautiful, specially the colored latex. But the html version is displaying the formulas with a 1-pixel border in

[sage-devel] Re: embed Sage worksheets into PDFs?

2009-01-02 Thread Ronan Paixão
It would be neat if the worksheet could be generated from the .tex source, with perhaps extra examples, so the author doesn't have to do something totally separate/manually keep them in sync. But perhaps you're already thinking along these lines. - Robert I see many ideas in

[sage-devel] Re: Sage artwork solicitation

2008-12-14 Thread Ronan Paixão
I preferred having the three links (with support), but this is nice anyway. For the mug, does 1662 pixels mean the picture loops around the mug or does it only cover the front or something like that? Ronan Em Sáb, 2008-12-13 às 20:46 -0800, mhampton escreveu: OK, version four is up at:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage artwork solicitation

2008-12-13 Thread Ronan Paixão
I also prefer the second one. As a business card it's a bit more cluttered, but I think it's useful for people to try online before downloading hundreds of megabytes. At least this way it's explicit that they have that option. Ronan Em Sáb, 2008-12-13 às 06:47 -0800, mhampton escreveu: One

[sage-devel] Re: Sage artwork solicitation

2008-12-13 Thread Ronan Paixão
Is there some way to do the sage logo in sage code? That would make sense. Ronan Em Sáb, 2008-12-13 às 08:16 -0800, mhampton escreveu: I did try to work in the official png, but the resolution wasn't good enough. I was wondering about that aspect - i.e. keeping a consistent sage brand. I

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-12-12 Thread Ronan Paixão
It would be nice to see how that ad will impact sage's site measures. Em Sex, 2008-12-12 às 16:12 +0100, Jaap Spies escreveu: Harald Schilly wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 13:52, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: Hi, Today the postman delivered the journal! See my scan. Very

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook themes

2008-12-12 Thread Ronan Paixão
Actually, I prefer the theme as it is. Probably, a lot of other people won't like the new one, specially because it doesn't use white as a background (which sagemath.org also uses). It seems to be tiresome to the eyes in my opinion. Ronan Paixão Em Sex, 2008-12-12 às 15:44 -0800, Elliott

[sage-devel] Re: slowness is repeated Maxima evaluations?

2008-12-08 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Seg, 2008-12-08 às 12:25 -0200, Ronan Paixão escreveu: Em Seg, 2008-12-08 às 05:50 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: As I saw matplotlib/pylab being mentioned, in combination with slowdowns, I thought I'd mention that plotting in pylab itself goes progressively slower. On a system

[sage-devel] Re: Compilation failure

2008-12-08 Thread Ronan Paixão
It would be interesting to figure out how to build binaries on sage.math that don't require SSE. I have no clue how to do this? Does anybody have any ideas? After searching around for a while, my best idea is to ask Clint Whaley how to build Atlas in such a way that it doesn't use

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook Jmol Problems: 3.2.1

2008-12-07 Thread Ronan Paixão
I've had the same problem for a long time now, since Sage 3.1.something but when I complained in IRC everybody just said you must use Sun's java when I'm already using it. I'm just using Tachyon now. Ronan Em Sáb, 2008-12-06 às 12:51 -0800, David M. Monarres escreveu: Hello, When doing 3D

[sage-devel] Re: Integral of piecewise functions

2008-12-07 Thread Ronan Paixão
This makes sense for compactly supported functions. How do you do that for something like f(x) = max(1,floor(x))? sage: f(x)=max(1,floor(x)) sage: f(10) 1 sage: type(f) class 'sage.calculus.calculus.CallableSymbolicExpression' huh, there are some problems with this function, first because

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook Jmol Problems: 3.2.1

2008-12-07 Thread Ronan Paixão
of the first one. On Dec 7, 3:39 pm, Jaap Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Stein wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had the same problem for a long time now, since Sage 3.1.something but when I complained in IRC everybody just said you must

[sage-devel] Re: Integral of piecewise functions

2008-12-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
think that makes some sense. Ronan Paixão Em Sáb, 2008-12-06 às 11:39 -0500, Paul Butler escreveu: Currently, taking the integral of a piecewise function in Sage gives you the definite integral. I've proposed on trac that the integral of piecewise functions be indefinite by default. This would

[sage-devel] Re: How strong is the 100% doctest coverage policy?

2008-11-28 Thread Ronan Paixão
So all of the above leads me to believe that we must have a 100% doctest coverage policy. As soon as we start giving out free passes people will start to argue that their code should be exempted due to BLAH BLAH BLAH and arguing with various people will take longer than writing the

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: how to pass a symbolic function to python, maxima etc?

2008-11-28 Thread Ronan Paixão
numbers to raw ones, otherwise they will pass sage types to numpy and generate arrays of sage objects. So far, I'm doing everything in pure python + numpy, for performance reasons, though it would be nice to have some sage powers in the future. Well, that's my 2 cents. Ronan Paixão

[sage-devel] Problem with Integer()

2008-11-27 Thread Ronan Paixão
.) to an integer Does that belong to a ticket? Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com

[sage-devel] Re: Problem with Integer()

2008-11-27 Thread Ronan Paixão
, 11:24 am, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronan Paixão wrote: I just found a problem with Integer(). It doesn't seem to work fine with float strings. Those work fine: Integer(1) Integer(1.) But this doesn't: Integer(1.) More data: Integer(RR('1.')) works Integer(RR('1.0

[sage-devel] Re: A simpler SAGE?

2008-11-25 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Seg, 2008-11-24 às 13:05 -0800, jrpick escreveu: For security, I just mean that if I have it running on a server, I don't want people to be able to do malicious things like play with the filesystem, send mail, or drop mysql tables. More than a sandbox, however: you shouldn't be able to

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] sage.math hd space bimonthly consumption contest - November winners :)

2008-11-24 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Dom, 2008-11-23 às 03:13 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: Hello folks, we nearly ran out of space on /home for the first time in a while. The following accounts are using more than 1GB space and on case your name is one the list you should consider cleaning up unused files. This should look

[sage-devel] Re: sage.math hd space bimonthly consumption contest - November winners :)

2008-11-24 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Seg, 2008-11-24 às 16:15 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: On Nov 23, 6:23 pm, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Dom, 2008-11-23 às 03:13 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: Hello folks, Hi, we nearly ran out of space on /home for the first time in a while. The following accounts

[sage-devel] Re: trac account name map to real names?

2008-11-23 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Dom, 2008-11-23 às 14:15 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: On Nov 23, 2:10 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good to me. Isn't it correct that only account holders can view the wiki page you are planning? We could restrict the page to people with logins, but that doesn't

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Re: sage-3.2

2008-11-22 Thread Ronan Paixão
' in the beginning, so the user could answer everything up front. Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http

[sage-devel] Re: sage-3.2

2008-11-22 Thread Ronan Paixão
one version. But even that may be pointless, since having previous versions is the whole point of using a version control system, and sage uses mercurial, which should allow to revert to old spkgs. Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Highlight

2008-11-21 Thread Ronan Paixão
/products/pil/ in sage. I don't see it at http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/ It appears the newest version supports converting to/from numpy arrays: http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-116.htm Ronan Paixão Em Sex, 2008-11-21 às 14:49 +1100, Alex Ghitza escreveu: There was also this awesome

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Highlight

2008-11-21 Thread Ronan Paixão
Ronan Paixão wrote: Hey, that's much more awesome! It lacks some antialiasing, though. Maybe we should add image manipulation support like those new Mathematica features: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin7/content/BuiltInImageProcessing/ It sure would be nice

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Problem with derivative of a constant function

2008-11-21 Thread Ronan Paixão
as a function. Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Highlight

2008-11-20 Thread Ronan Paixão
, figsize=8, viewer='tachyon') Also, something with animate() would be nice to show off. Ronan Paixão Em Qui, 2008-11-20 às 15:28 -0500, David Joyner escreveu: Sounds like they want two paragraphs on Sage, plus picture or graph, in word. I am drawing ab blank as far as what a good picture/graph

[sage-devel] Re: Log scale in plot

2008-11-17 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Dom, 2008-11-16 às 19:53 -0800, William Stein escreveu: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most other math packages out there (or at least Mma and Matlab) use frames instead of just axes. What I would recommend instead of using axes is to use

[sage-devel] Re: Log scale in plot

2008-11-16 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Dom, 2008-11-16 às 11:44 -0800, William Stein escreveu: Additionally, I think the Graphics wrapper should not be nearly as heavy as it is. In particular, there's no way to get at and modify the matplotlib subplot object. For example, I have some preliminary code that would let one do

[sage-devel] Re: Log scale in plot

2008-11-15 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Sex, 2008-11-14 às 16:22 -0200, Ronan Paixão escreveu: I recently thought about implementing more functions used by non-math people (I'm an Electronic Engineering student). I started by trying to make a Bode plot, but after a lot of digging to find how to make subplots and how to use

[sage-devel] Re: Contributing to Sage

2008-11-15 Thread Ronan Paixão
This is a pretty nice description of how to get into development. Ronan, I encourage you to submit a patch to the developer guide with some text as above. At the least, put something like that on the wiki. William Done. http://wiki.sagemath.org/HowToBeginSageDevelopment Ronan

[sage-devel] Re: one of you should review this -- it's easy; rainier from msr ran into this problem today

2008-11-15 Thread Ronan Paixão
have also added a link to this page from the wiki main page, in the Development section. Ronan Paixão Em Sáb, 2008-11-15 às 15:01 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: On Nov 15, 2:56 pm, Georg S. Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP But I don't think I open a ticket for this unless I have some

[sage-devel] Re: one of you should review this -- it's easy; rainier from msr ran into this problem today

2008-11-15 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Sáb, 2008-11-15 às 15:56 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: On Nov 15, 3:18 pm, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have recently opened up a page about getting started in Sage development in the wiki, as a suggestion from William http://wiki.sagemath.org

[sage-devel] Re: symbolic summation interface

2008-11-14 Thread Ronan Paixão
): sum(sum([f(j%7) for j in (0..oo) if jk]) for k in (0..oo)])) using j and k, since i is parsed as the complex constant. Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[sage-devel] Re: [slightly OT] Interesting iPhone app

2008-11-14 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Qui, 2008-11-13 às 19:35 -0800, kcrisman escreveu: http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/content/educationtop8application.html http://www.colombiamug.com/ES/Bienvenidos.html Just a reminder that there could be a very big 'market' for Sage Lite if/when it appears... in the meantime sounds

[sage-devel] Log scale in plot

2008-11-14 Thread Ronan Paixão
if the user used a custom figure() with different axis or would it be better to add another kwarg like log=xy where x would make the x axis logarithmic and y likewise for the y axis, avoiding the need for the user to deal with matplotlib's figure()? Ronan Paixão

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica 7 coming

2008-11-14 Thread Ronan Paixão
and stuff like that. Or just plain numerical features. Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.rc0 released

2008-11-13 Thread Ronan Paixão
sage: numpy.linalg.inv(a) array([[ 2.25125019e+15, -4.50250038e+15, 2.25125019e+15], [ -4.50250038e+15, 9.00500077e+15, -4.50250038e+15], [ 2.25125019e+15, -4.50250038e+15, 2.25125019e+15]]) I get this: sage: scipy.linalg.inv(a) array([[

[sage-devel] Re: Python complex number syntax, e.g., 2j

2008-11-13 Thread Ronan Paixão
I vote for 1j being the Python complex number. This is because the only people I can ever imagine using the notation j in Sage are numerical numpy-type users who would be very annoyed to get Sage complex numbers ever. Actually, at least Electric/Electronic Engineering doesn't use i

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-11-13 Thread Ronan Paixão
Sometime in January, I plan to get a public notebook server going and I'd like to have some PR material ready to go. When you do plan to get this server going, let me know. The new sagenb.org, which is just a 64-bit linux vmware machine, seems to be actually working extremely well.

[sage-devel] Re: video from sage days 11

2008-11-10 Thread Ronan Paixão
to theora, even if it's not considered the technical winner, its open nature should be valued. Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-07 Thread Ronan Paixão
be better to only allow one substitution for x, since x already has an established status (if one wants it even more generic, allow only single-variable functions). That way calling f(5,3) would raise an error and force the user to explicitly order the variables. Ronan Paixão

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-07 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Sex, 2008-11-07 às 12:25 -0800, Georg S. Weber escreveu: Ahh, better call it graduate mode instead of pedantic mode, at least in the documentation. :-) Cheers, gsw I'd prefer blue-pill mode and red-pill mode :) Ronan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Re: yet another talk on Sage

2008-11-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
be a link to some license if the country doesn't support public domain, yet allow free usage. Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
like $ f(x) = x^3 + x + 1 $ or just use python's def for functions and * for multiplication to make all cases clear. After all, quoting import this: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Ronan Paixão Em Qua, 2008-11-05 às 21:10 -0800, Nick Alexander escreveu

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
(like f,g) does function application become the default. If I read in a paper: f is not always a function name. In electric/electronic engineering, f is also commonly used for frequency, which is usually a variable. Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation Quality Initiative

2008-11-05 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 18:03 -0800, William Stein escreveu: On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Qua, 2008-11-05 às 12:07 +1100, Minh Nguyen escreveu: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Minh Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Harald, On Tue

[sage-devel] Re: [Bulk] [sage-devel] Re: yet another talk on Sage

2008-11-05 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Qua, 2008-11-05 às 13:23 -0400, David Joyner escreveu: Should we consider creating our own Sage documentation license? As was pointed out, public domain not only doesn't exist in some countries, it also isn't a license technically speaking. Just now I noticed on the CC page that in Brazil

[sage-devel] Re: Links between worksheets

2008-11-04 Thread Ronan Paixão
authentication and authorization schemas to know. Ronan Paixão Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 07:09 -0800, Rob Beezer escreveu: Dan, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I looked closely at SageTex a couple of months ago. Its a great idea, but I think it maybe does the reverse of what I want. I'd like to have

[sage-devel] Re: yet another talk on Sage

2008-11-04 Thread Ronan Paixão
AM, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible to create a repository of talks about sage? Ronan Paixão It would be good to add to this: http://sagemath.org/talks/ William Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 01:08 -0800, Craig Citro escreveu: Hey Martin -- this looks great

[sage-devel] Re: PEP for new inline operators for Python

2008-11-04 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 18:56 -0600, Jason Grout escreveu: On the numpy list, there has been discussion on PEP225, which advocates for more custom inline operators in python, particularly to address matrix multiplication versus element-wise multiplication. Fernando Perez has put together a

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation Quality Initiative

2008-11-04 Thread Ronan Paixão
function does it (and sometimes I don't even know there's a function for it). Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options

[sage-devel] Re: yet another talk on Sage

2008-11-04 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 17:44 -0800, William Stein escreveu: On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no talks from 2008. Somewhere there should be instructions on how to get files there (who to send to). I noticed there have been quite some talks

[sage-devel] Re: New software for computing automata and rewriting systems

2008-11-03 Thread Ronan Paixão
in previous e-mails may be inaccurate (as some in this e-mail may also be, since IANAL). Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more

[sage-devel] Re: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-02 Thread Ronan Paixão
dilemma (with the added effect of making the novice user know the great help an init file can provide). Ronan Paixão --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: sagenb.org

2008-11-02 Thread Ronan Paixão
don't know if this is the right(tm) way to do it, but it seems more pythonic: import os [p for p in os.environ['PATH'].split(':') if os.path.exists('%s/%s' % (p,'phc'))] which should return a list with the paths in which the file 'phc' exists, or an empty list if it doesn't Ronan Paixão Em

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-11-02 Thread Ronan Paixão
be easier to push for a change in completion code. Ronan Paixão Em Ter, 2008-10-28 às 07:44 -0700, Tim Abbott escreveu: On Oct 28, 7:32 am, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -1 on the rename, too. It will cause massive problems without any serious benefit whatsoever. The manual clearly

[sage-devel] Re: sagenb.org

2008-11-02 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Dom, 2008-11-02 às 16:26 -0800, William Stein escreveu: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't know if this is the right(tm) way to do it, but it seems more pythonic: import os [p for p in os.environ['PATH'].split(':') if os.path.exists('%s/%s

[sage-devel] Re: sagenb.org

2008-11-02 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Dom, 2008-11-02 às 17:51 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: On Nov 2, 5:32 pm, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Dom, 2008-11-02 às 16:26 -0800, William Stein escreveu: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Ronan Paixão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't know if this is the right(tm

[sage-devel] Re: New software for computing automata and rewriting systems

2008-10-31 Thread Ronan Paixão
GPL. Cheers, Ronan Paixão Electric Department Instituto Militar de Engenharia Em Sex, 2008-10-31 às 08:41 -0700, William Stein escreveu: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:35 AM, alunw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this. I'll certainly consider doing this, though I'm still slightly

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Ronan Paixão
I also believe the bottom graph looks noisy. Maybe clipping only the first third of the graph and stretching it to fill the ad's width could make it better? Otherwise, it looks like a very quality work. What did you use to design it? Inkscape? , Ronan Paixão Em Qua, 2008-10-22 às 16:56 -0700

[sage-devel] Re: Heaviside step and impulse functions

2008-10-19 Thread Ronan Paixão
Obviously, the intent is not just to have the function for certain values, but to employ other powers of sage, including differentiation and integration (not forgetting that the step function is the integrated delta function). There are, though some other problems with implementing those,

[sage-devel] Heaviside step and impulse functions

2008-10-14 Thread Ronan Paixão
So, I have seen someone talk about those some time ago, but how is their implementation going? Both the step function u(x) and the impulse function delta(x) are pretty useful in Engineering, specially when talking about Laplace and Fourier transforms, so that could help a lot those who use Sage