On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 2:17:31 AM UTC-5 Martin R wrote: I agree that my terminology is not good. I tried to make a distinction between research involving math and the - to me unknown - rest. I find it hard to imagine that any mathematician would bother installing anything else but all of sage.
As mentioned upthread, CyPari is one of the few examples of something that's been modularized out of Sage. While it's small compared to Sage, it can still do everything Pari can, which is a lot. Marc and I broke out CyPari so we could use it in SnapPy (https://snappy.computop.org), whose users are, at a guess, 90% mathematicians, 9% physicists, 1% other. The most recent version stand-alone (Sage-free) version of SnapPy has been downloaded 1,200 times on Windows and macOS. That's a lot of mathematicians who are already installing only part of Sage. Another example is large-scale pure math computation on clusters. Because of Sage's size and the nature of distributive file systems, the time to startup Sage can be 30 seconds or more, which complicates things if you want to do 100,000 calculations that are only 10 seconds each. I was recently at a workshop on computational topology, and several researchers there regarded using Sage in this context as a non-starter, in one case they were completely changing their approach to avoid using Sage. Best, Nathan -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/c429af78-dd69-4ed5-94d4-0c0a45df8114n%40googlegroups.com.
