[sage-support] Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, Pardon for the double-posting since I am unsure which list is more appropriate. In section 2.4.1 of the Sage Tutorial, there is a non-linear equation example from Jason Grout that I tried out, but it failed. Details follow. My version is built from the Ubuntu jaunty package

[sage-support] Re: Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-13 Thread Jason Grout
R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: Dear Folks, Pardon for the double-posting since I am unsure which list is more appropriate. In section 2.4.1 of the Sage Tutorial, there is a non-linear equation example from Jason Grout that I tried out, but it failed. Details follow. My version is

[sage-support] Re: Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jason Grout wrote: I'm not sure what is going on here. Version 3.0.5 is from quite a while ago, at least in Sage terms. The calculation works great in the current version of Sage (version 3.4, just released yesterday, as tested on http://www.sagenb.org.) Did you say that this was from

[sage-support] Substitution

2009-03-13 Thread hpon
Hi, What is the easiest way to make a mathematical substitution in Sage? For example: We have eqn1 = F == a + b and would like to use a = 0 and b = 3 to calculate F. Should I use solve and treat the problem like a system of equations, or is there a substitute-like command? Regards, hpon

[sage-support] Re: Substitution

2009-03-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:09 PM, hpon peter.norli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the easiest way to make a mathematical substitution in Sage? For example: We have eqn1 = F == a + b I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do in this line. If you just want to define F as

[sage-support] Re: VMware Player. Read files from windows OS

2009-03-13 Thread Maurizio
What I usually do, to move files in and out from the virtual machine within Windows (maybe it is a little suboptimal way) is to use WinSCP (a freeware software easily found on the internet), which allows me to browse the virtual machine with a Commander-like interface, so I can easily move files

[sage-support] Re: Small problem with limit()

2009-03-13 Thread Maurizio
This is very interesting... Is there any wiki or documentation page on the net where it has been published all the powerful alternatives to maxima we can adopt in SAGE? I'm sure limit is just one of those which I wasn't aware of! Maurizio On Mar 13, 12:34 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com

[sage-support] Re: Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-13 Thread Jason Grout
R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: Jason Grout wrote: I'm not sure what is going on here. Version 3.0.5 is from quite a while ago, at least in Sage terms. The calculation works great in the current version of Sage (version 3.4, just released yesterday, as tested on

[sage-support] 3D plots side by side

2009-03-13 Thread Mani chandra
Hi, How can I get 3D plots side by side? Also when using interact for sliders, how do I make it such that the evaluation is done after maybe I press some button instead of it being evaluated immediately after I change a value on the slider? Thanks Mani chandra

[sage-support] Re: Build sage 3.4 failed. Missing fortran flags

2009-03-13 Thread Koch Peer-Joachim
Hi, sorry my fault. Setting the fortran compiler seemed to be the problem. I unpacked the tar, use no further settings and everything worked great!. Thanks and sorry. Bye, Peer 2009/3/12 mabshoff michael.absh...@mathematik.uni-dortmund.de On Mar 12, 7:54 am,

[sage-support] Re: Substitution

2009-03-13 Thread hpon
Excellent. Thank you Alex! /hpon On 13 Mar, 09:16, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:09 PM, hpon peter.norli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the easiest way to make a mathematical substitution in Sage? For example:  We have eqn1 = F == a + b

[sage-support] Getting a numerical value

2009-03-13 Thread hpon
Hi, How do I get a numerical value? I have a multi-parameter function where all the parameters have been substituted by numerical values. I want Sage to calculate the expression's numerical value. At the moment Sage prints: 1/sqrt((sqrt(3)/2 - 0.0173205080757)^2 - 0.0001) - and so on

[sage-support] Re: Getting a numerical value

2009-03-13 Thread Jason Grout
hpon wrote: Hi, How do I get a numerical value? I have a multi-parameter function where all the parameters have been substituted by numerical values. I want Sage to calculate the expression's numerical value. At the moment Sage prints: 1/sqrt((sqrt(3)/2 - 0.0173205080757)^2 -

[sage-support] Re: Getting a numerical value

2009-03-13 Thread Johan Oudinet
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:19 PM, hpon peter.norli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How do I get a numerical value? I have a multi-parameter function where all the parameters have been substituted by numerical values.  I want Sage to calculate the expression's numerical value.  At the moment Sage

[sage-support] Exiting Gap process?

2009-03-13 Thread kcrisman
Dear Support, Usually, when I exit Sage after doing something symbolic, I get something like this: -- | Sage Version 3.4, Release Date: 2009-03-11 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.|

[sage-support] recompile sage in MAC OSX

2009-03-13 Thread Norbert Werner Sauer
Hi; I changed the delimiters of matrices in the file: sage/devel/sage/sage/matrix/matrix0.pyx and then the recompile failed. The terminal returned the following on the command: sage -b dhcp71193:sage nsauer$ ./sage -b -- sage: Building

[sage-support] Re: recompile sage in MAC OSX

2009-03-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Norbert Werner Sauer wrote: Hi; I changed the delimiters of matrices in the file: sage/devel/sage/sage/matrix/matrix0.pyx and then the recompile failed. The terminal returned the following on the command: sage -b dhcp71193:sage nsauer$ ./sage -b

[sage-support] Re: recompile sage in MAC OSX

2009-03-13 Thread Jaap Spies
Norbert Werner Sauer wrote: Hi; I changed the delimiters of matrices in the file: sage/devel/sage/sage/matrix/matrix0.pyx and then the recompile failed. The terminal returned the following on the command: sage -b dhcp71193:sage nsauer$ ./sage -b

[sage-support] Re: recompile sage in MAC OSX

2009-03-13 Thread kcrisman
More specifically, unless you you need to install XCode (http:// developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html). You may already have it on your install disk, from which you can put it on your computer, or it might be somewhere in your computer but not unpacked yet; otherwise it is downloadable for

[sage-support] Re: 3D plots side by side

2009-03-13 Thread adrian
I don't know about the plots. To have interact evaluate when you say so, just add auto_update=False as in the example below: @interact def f(a='G',b=(1,2,.1),c=True,u = text_control (value='cow'),d=xsrange(1,50),auto_update=False,f=range(5),g=range (20),h=matrix(ZZ,2,2,[1,2,3,4]),i=3):

[sage-support] Cannot copy on OSX

2009-03-13 Thread kcrisman
Dear Support, Just downloaded a binary for 3.4 for OSX.4 off the webpage, and it won't fully copy from the dmg to my computer. To be precise, I get the following type of complaint: 'You cannot copy some of these items to the destination because their names are the same as the names of items on

[sage-support] Re: Cannot copy on OSX

2009-03-13 Thread kcrisman
Same thing happens with lib vs. LIB. Since a lot of those files are a little more important than Singular to me, I guess I'll dump this download... could it just be a problem with my computer, X.4 PPC? - kcrisman --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send

[sage-support] Re: Cannot copy on OSX

2009-03-13 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 13, 10:55 am, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Support, Just downloaded a binary for 3.4 for OSX.4 off the webpage, and it won't fully copy from the dmg to my computer.  To be precise, I get the following type of complaint: 'You cannot copy some of these items to the

[sage-support] Re: Cannot copy on OSX

2009-03-13 Thread Carl Witty
On Mar 13, 11:02 am, mabshoff michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- dortmund.de wrote: On Mar 13, 10:55 am, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas? The build box where that binary is being build had some changes to the file system layout, i.e. William might have build on an NFS mount

[sage-support] Re: public worksheet, and methods for exporting

2009-03-13 Thread Pierre
Interacts don't work on published worksheets for security reasons. Ah ! that explains it. Could do an animate instead...  Note that sagenb.org is not designed to support classes as a class sage server; rather, it's designed to give a person a way to try out Sage. Is there anything wrong

[sage-support] Re: recompile sage in MAC OSX

2009-03-13 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 13, 7:29 am, Norbert Werner Sauer nsa...@math.ucalgary.ca wrote: Hi; I changed the delimiters of matrices in the file: By the way, in the latest version of Sage (3.4), you can use the command 'sage.matrix.matrix0.set_matrix_latex_delimiters([, ])' to change from parentheses to square

[sage-support] Re: public worksheet, and methods for exporting

2009-03-13 Thread Jason Grout
Pierre wrote: Interacts don't work on published worksheets for security reasons. Ah ! that explains it. Could do an animate instead... Note that sagenb.org is not designed to support classes as a class sage server; rather, it's designed to give a person a way to try out Sage. Is

[sage-support] Re: public worksheet, and methods for exporting

2009-03-13 Thread Carl Witty
On Mar 13, 11:58 am, Pierre pierre.guil...@gmail.com wrote:  Note that sagenb.org is not designed to support classes as a class sage server; rather, it's designed to give a person a way to try out Sage. Is there anything wrong with many people (that is, about 30) checking a public

[sage-support] Re: recompile sage in MAC OSX

2009-03-13 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 13, 12:02 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 13, 7:29 am, Norbert Werner Sauer nsa...@math.ucalgary.ca wrote: Hi; I changed the delimiters of matrices in the file: By the way, in the latest version of Sage (3.4), you can use the command

[sage-support] Admin Password and Command Line

2009-03-13 Thread kaufma
I am trying to deploy sage on 50 OSX 10.5 lab machines. Is there a way to set the Administrator password via command line? Thanks, Eric Kaufmann Saint Louis University --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To

[sage-support] Re: Admin Password and Command Line

2009-03-13 Thread Maurizio
The way I did it (if I can recall) was: login as sage (or manage?), do sudo su, do passwd, set the new password. Something like that should work Maurizio On 13 Mar, 22:32, kaufma kaufmanne...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to deploy sage on 50 OSX 10.5 lab machines. Is there a way to set the

[sage-support] Re: Admin Password and Command Line

2009-03-13 Thread Jason Grout
kaufma wrote: I am trying to deploy sage on 50 OSX 10.5 lab machines. Is there a way to set the Administrator password via command line? What password are you referring to? The notebook administrator password? Thanks, Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post

[sage-support] Re: Getting a numerical value

2009-03-13 Thread Maurizio
I'd like to jump in the conversation, to describe my own experience. I don't know what about real numbers, but I found out that in that same situation you were talking about (symbolic expression where all the symbols are substituted by numbers eventually), and the expected result is a complex

[sage-support] Re: recompile sage in MAC OSX

2009-03-13 Thread nsauer
Thanks for your reply. After reading all of the replies, I realised that I stupidly had forgotten that for my new Laptop I did not install the developer package, which I usually do. After installing it everything works now perfectly. Thanks for you troubles, Norbert On Mar 13, 3:23 pm,

[sage-support] SAGE possible improvement

2009-03-13 Thread Maurizio
Hello, I'm a happy user of SAGE, and I won't stop thanking all you guys for this wonderful job! Although, I also try to encourage you in getting something better (from my point of view). It seems there has been some serious thinking about including a UNITS of MEASUREMENTS managing package in

[sage-support] Merge maxima/share stuff into core?

2009-03-13 Thread Maurizio
Hi Robert, how are you? I wonder if you do have any new information about you going through all this interesting maxima stuff. I always thought that community stuff have really great features well hidden in it, and I'm really hoping that you are getting some good results. Thank you very much