-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Page wrote: > For a better user interface experience I would recommend using Axiom > within Sage. Sage provides a browser-based notebook interface that > should be familiar to most students these days. And for cryptography I > think Sage's common interface to other packages like singular and gap > might also be of interest. It is very easy to install the Axiom > package for Sage on both Linux and Mac, though Windows is a more > difficult problem - usually solved by running Linux in a virtual > machine under Windows. > >> Just thought you'd like to know. >> > > Thanks. I would like to know more. But apparently some people here > really do not care to know. :-( The suggestion to turn these comments > back on the student surely can not be of much use since it seems > rather unlikely to me that cryptography students will be motivated to > solve these sort problems with the Axiom user interface when there are > so many other alternatives available.
Well ... I don't know a heck of a lot about cryptography, but I do know that it's computationally intensive and a student is indeed probably better off using something more optimized, such as Singular, Gap, GiNaC/CLN, or Sage than a "general purpose math package like Axiom." The kinds of things *I* do in Axiom, on the other hand, *are* things where a pleasant, easy to use interface is vital. I don't do anything bizarre or demanding; nearly everything I do could be done on an HP or TI high-end symbolic calculator if it had the speed and the memory. It can certainly be done in Axiom or Maxima or Yacas (or Derive) -- about the only requirement I have beyond the basics is Laplace transforms. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG2jYM8fKMegVjSM8RAoPcAJ9Kr5a+vuB5uuYx2Rhg3Q/sLbVhZACgzTnT kadWq+6/iAzN/K0RR1kW2fU= =CWNK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
