It's now put somewhere else, namely in $HOME/.sage/temp/(hostname)/(pid)/ but the tutorial has not changed to reflect this.
John 2009/8/14 brettpim <br...@math.carleton.ca>: > > One more: > > I am sunning sage in ~/Projects/SAGE/sage-4.1 which is the root of the > source tarball. as per > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/tutorial/programming.html#loading-and-attaching-sage-files, > I created 'example.sage' in this directory and loaded and attached > it. contrary to the tutorial, no file named 'example.sage.py' was > created in this directory. No such file exists anywhere in my home > directory tree, ~/. > > brett > > > On Aug 11, 9:24 pm, brettpim <br...@math.carleton.ca> wrote: >> I have had some issues in the tutorial but I am a newbie so I wanted >> to check here before thinking these were errors in Sage rather than >> errors in me. >> >> 1) athttp://www.sagemath.org/doc/tutorial/tour_algebra.html#euler-s-method... >> it seems to met that z(1) \aprox 0.65 NOT 0.75 >> >> 2) regarding polynomials in the >> tutorial:http://www.sagemath.org/doc/tutorial/tour_polynomial.html >> >> Does the following session: >> >> sage: R = QQ['t'] >> sage: t in R >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> NameError Traceback (most recent >> call last) >> >> /home/brett/Projects/SAGE/sage-4.1/<ipython console> in <module>() >> >> NameError: name 't' is not defined >> sage: S.<t> = QQ['t'] >> sage: t in S >> True >> sage: t in R >> True >> >> contradict the statement "However, this does not define the symbol t >> for use in Sage, so you cannot use it to enter a polynomial (such as >> t^2+1) belonging to R"? >> >> 3) In Linear Algebra (http://www.sagemath.org/doc/tutorial/ >> tour_linalg.html#sparse-linear-algebra) I am not sure what "The multi- >> modular algorithm in Sage is good for square matrices (but not so good >> for non-square matrices):" is supposed to mean since I do not notice >> any difference in output. What should I expect to see differently? >> >> 4) In "Timing commands" (http://www.sagemath.org/doc/tutorial/ >> interactive_shell.html#timing-commands) the difference between >> "%time" and "time" is never explained. Calling time? and %time? seem >> to indicate that these are the same, but the tutorial's switch from >> one to the other with no explanation is a bit confusing. >> >> thanks >> brett > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
