2009/9/16 Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com>: > > William Stein wrote: > >> so if you could say more about what you might >> want such a "nice module" to do, it would be very useful! > > Well, in order to have some functionality above and beyond > what R or other numerical systems offer, I think you should > emphasize symbolic computation. Wrapping numerical functions > is nice but doesn't offer anything fundamentally different. > Making it possible to do statistical stuff with symbolic or > mixed symbolic-numerical computations would be very > exciting and useful. Maybe you're already working on that, > I can't tell. If so sorry for the bother.
Yes, this is a very very good point. It's very sad if Sage can't compute the mean of pi and e. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
