[sage-devel] Re: Sun Article

2009-03-20 Thread Florent Hivert
begin-nitpick-mode The quote: particularly with respect to numbers theory should really be particularly with respect to *number* theory (my emphasis) end-nitpick-mode Fun !!! I didn't realize until now that English people where doing number theory whereas us French do théorie des

[sage-devel] Re: Sun Article

2009-03-20 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Florent, On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote: begin-nitpick-mode The quote: particularly with respect to numbers theory should really be particularly with respect to *number* theory (my emphasis) end-nitpick-mode Fun !!! I didn't

[sage-devel] Re: Sun Article

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Grout
Florent Hivert wrote: begin-nitpick-mode The quote: particularly with respect to numbers theory should really be particularly with respect to *number* theory (my emphasis) end-nitpick-mode Fun !!! I didn't realize until now that English people where doing number theory whereas us

[sage-devel] Coloring in Sage (was notebook share button)

2009-03-20 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear All, Have you tried editing $HOME/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc ? It has numerous color options, which are off by default since it is not possible to tell if the user's terminal has a white or black background, and any choice of colors looks like crap if you guess wrong about the

[sage-devel] Re: Sun Article

2009-03-20 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote: begin-nitpick-mode The quote: particularly with respect to numbers theory should really be particularly with respect to *number* theory (my emphasis) end-nitpick-mode Fun !!! I didn't realize until

[sage-devel] Re: Sun Article

2009-03-20 Thread Rob Beezer
A mathematician I know told me once she only had two tricks. She could multiply by one and add zero. But always very creatively. There's a grain of truth in that... On Mar 20, 12:59 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: I wonder what people would think if I started saying that my

[sage-devel] Re: Sun Article

2009-03-20 Thread Florent Hivert
A mathematician I know told me once she only had two tricks. She could multiply by one and add zero. But always very creatively. There's a grain of truth in that... Well ! This remembers me Alain Lascoux which is a quite famous combinatorialist, published some papers entitled: * Addition

[sage-devel] Re: Sun Article

2009-03-20 Thread John Cremona
2009/3/20 William Stein wst...@gmail.com: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote: begin-nitpick-mode The quote: particularly with respect to numbers theory should really be particularly with respect to *number* theory (my emphasis)

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Alfredo Portes
If you dont want to burn the iso and have vmware player or workstation you can download: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/alfredo/sagelivecd/sage-vmware-livecd.zip Edit the file SageCD.vmx where it says sage-3.4.iso to be the name of your iso. Then just run it inside vmware. You can also

[sage-devel] Re: NetworkX v0.99

2009-03-20 Thread Gustav Delius
Mike, thanks a lot for having looked into this. Gustav On Mar 20, 12:30 pm, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Mar 20, 12:09 am, Gustav Delius gustav.del...@gmail.com wrote: I read that Sage was upgraded to using NetworkX v0.99 as of Sage version 3.3. However

[sage-devel] Re: NetworkX v0.99

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Mar 20, 12:09 am, Gustav Delius gustav.del...@gmail.com wrote: I read that Sage was upgraded to using NetworkX v0.99 as of Sage version 3.3. However onwww.sagenb.org, one still has to use networkx.XGraph() class even though that has been removed from NetworkX v0.99. Why is that? I

[sage-devel] Error in Debian with Sage from sources(binary doesn't not work either)

2009-03-20 Thread Francisco Cordobés
Hello, I have compiled Sage from source(version 3.4) and although the process is long it goes without any error. The problem is when trying to do things in the notebook. I cannot even to plot(sin,1,2) because maxima is not able to start. I also tried maxima alone and got the following error:

[sage-devel] Re: Error in Debian with Sage from sources(binary doesn't not work either)

2009-03-20 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Francisco Cordobés ghi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have compiled Sage from source(version 3.4) and although the process is long it goes without any error. The problem is when trying to do things in the notebook. I cannot even to plot(sin,1,2) because maxima

[sage-devel] NetworkX v0.99

2009-03-20 Thread Gustav Delius
I read that Sage was upgraded to using NetworkX v0.99 as of Sage version 3.3. However on www.sagenb.org, one still has to use networkx.XGraph() class even though that has been removed from NetworkX v0.99. Why is that? I believe www.sagenb.org is running Sage version 3.4. Was the upgrade to

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, I just burnt the ISO on one CD (28x) ran it and no troubles. While testing it I used a 2 Gb pen drive and had any troubles either. The ISO has been tested on 4 different computers already with no problems at all. I just put the cd on the reader, reboot, when the menu comes out, I select

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, I wrote you about it just about a minute ago, but think I sent you the message to you exclusively, sorry. When you write back may you post the answer to the list? I'll download the .iso from Diego's blog, burn it and try it, maybe it got corrupted while he uploaded it. I got the original

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Jasymca 2

2009-03-20 Thread Hazem
Actually, William, I posted the message. It was forwarded from another google discussion group (symbolic math group), where Helmut posted the original. If you wish to thank him, you should post something in that forum. Best regards, Hazem On Mar 19, 7:17 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com

[sage-devel] Re: p-adic precision loss in charpoly

2009-03-20 Thread Nick Alexander
Instead I worked around this by computing the determinants mod 2 and mod 13 and using CRT (if the determinants were both units). The time was then almost trivial. Suppose I replace this problem over ZZ/25ZZ or ZZ/256ZZ. I would still hope that the problem would NOT be lifted to ZZ for

[sage-devel] Re: notebook share button

2009-03-20 Thread Nick Alexander
I recently had a meeting with a maths educator who is very interested in using Sage for undergraduate maths and cryptography. The above coloured output issue is one of his feature requests. Have you tried editing $HOME/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc Or customizing the font-lock-mode of

[sage-devel] Re: Coloring in Sage (was notebook share button)

2009-03-20 Thread Nick Alexander
On 20-Mar-09, at 1:07 AM, Florent Hivert wrote: Dear All, Have you tried editing $HOME/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc ? It has numerous color options, which are off by default since it is not possible to tell if the user's terminal has a white or black background, and any choice of

[sage-devel] Re: Coloring in Sage (was notebook share button)

2009-03-20 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear Nick This coloring feature is very cool. I activated it right after reading your e-mail... Until I launch emacs... Then I realize that emacs will not recognize anything - and in particular the prompt - anymore. Is it possible to deactivate to feature dynamically from

[sage-devel] bug in show method for DiGraphs

2009-03-20 Thread davidp
Hi, It seems to me that the show method for DiGraphs is not working correctly in Sage 3.4. EXAMPLE: sage: G = DiGraph({1:{2: 1}, 2:{1:1}}) sage: G.show() sage: DiGraph(G.laplacian_matrix()).show() 1. The first call to show draws the graph with an edge missing. 2. The second call produces edges

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Rob Beezer
Lucio, Thanks for the reply. Downloaded the iso and burned a new CD. Tested it on same 2 machines, plus one more: 6-month old Toshiba laptop, with admittedly screwy wireless hardware (twice) Older Dell desktop, wired networking (twice) 2-month old home-built desktop, wired networking (once)

[sage-devel] Re: bug in show method for DiGraphs

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Grout
davidp wrote: Hi, It seems to me that the show method for DiGraphs is not working correctly in Sage 3.4. EXAMPLE: sage: G = DiGraph({1:{2: 1}, 2:{1:1}}) sage: G.show() sage: DiGraph(G.laplacian_matrix()).show() 1. The first call to show draws the graph with an edge missing. This

[sage-devel] Re: p-adic precision loss in charpoly

2009-03-20 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: Instead I worked around this by computing the determinants mod 2 and mod 13 and using CRT (if the determinants were both units).  The time was then almost trivial.  Suppose I replace this problem over ZZ/25ZZ or

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, after this appears: ubu...@ubuntu~: nm-system-settings: Adding default connection 'Auto eth0' for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/netmac-address-with_underscores? wait couple seconds and hit Enter and you are going to have the bash prompt back again. ubu...@ubuntu~: After that type: sudo

[sage-devel] Re: p-adic precision loss in charpoly

2009-03-20 Thread Bill Hart
Tuning is always difficult, especially when the search space is multidimensional. FLINT 2.0 will come with a tuning facility which will tune all linear cutoffs at build time. I'm afraid I don't have anything to offer for multidimensional cutoffs. Usually the search space is just too large to

[sage-devel] Re: p-adic precision loss in charpoly

2009-03-20 Thread David Kohel
William, Thanks for pointing out that I was wrong about the lifting problem and original of this slow behavior. Rather than just putting in place the solution by lifting to ZZ, which you show to be much faster for reasonable size, I hope someone can profile arithmetic or linear algebra for

[sage-devel] Re: p-adic precision loss in charpoly

2009-03-20 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM, David Kohel drko...@gmail.com wrote: William, Thanks for pointing out that I was wrong about the lifting problem and original of this slow behavior. Rather than just putting in place the solution by lifting to ZZ, which you show to be much faster for

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Rob Beezer
Lucio, That worked! Then a right-click to get the fluxbox menu up for anybody else who is playing along. Any plans to catch-up to 3.4? Thanks, Rob On Mar 20, 1:34 pm, Lucio Lastra luciolas...@gmail.com wrote: wait couple seconds and hit Enter and you are going to have the bash prompt back

[sage-devel] Re: bug in show method for DiGraphs

2009-03-20 Thread davidp
4. In the second call, there should not be loops at each vertex. Yes, there should be.  It's a weighted graph with loops on the vertices, since the laplacian has nonzero diagonal entries. Thanks, Jason The diagonal entries in the laplacian give the out_degrees of the corresponding

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE possible improvement

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Grout
Maurizio wrote: Not yet... I think I was previously asking whether some of you guys are interested in trying to contact them, if you do think it does makes sense. I mean, if this community is interested in having this feature, the Quantities developers are going to find some good feedback,

[sage-devel] Re: notebook share button

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Grout
Maurizio wrote: Let me throw this stone, it's just something that pops into my mind now: do you know what simulink is? That is a unique feature of MatLab (actually it's a toolbox), which has been pathetically replicated by somebody, but with no results in my opinion. To the best of my

[sage-devel] Re: bug in show method for DiGraphs

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Grout
davidp wrote: 4. In the second call, there should not be loops at each vertex. Yes, there should be. It's a weighted graph with loops on the vertices, since the laplacian has nonzero diagonal entries. Thanks, Jason The diagonal entries in the laplacian give the out_degrees of the

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, sure! when i started creating this metadistro 3.4 wasn't available yet. The next release will be with it. If you want to add it yourself before I do, check the instructions I sent William to build the same .iso. He forwarded them to this list. You will have to download SAGE 3.4 from here: