On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:59 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> What is the difference between "symbolics" and "calculus"?
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> Calculus is actual calculus. Symbolics is exposing symbolics of
> Maxima, Pynac etc. to users in the rest of Sage. So, for instance, R.
> Marik's question about getting Maxima's "1#0" to turn into "1!=0" is a
> symbolics issue, and so is something getting SR to do stuff like have
> a vector in SR use subs correctly. Fixing an integration bug or
> implementing quick non-Maxima-based differentiation of something or
> other would be calculus.
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> Obviously many of these could also fit into another box - anything
> Maxima could be about a package or an interface - but I, at least,
> found it helpful to have the distinction available for tickets which
> were about the things which allowed calculus functionality to happen
> but were not really at all about calculus.
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> Really, it's all about making it easy to search the 1000 or so open
> tickets in Sage! Apropos of that, being able to specify multiple
> components would also be nice, but probably that's not possible (?) or
> it would have already been done. For instance, something could be a
> porting issue but also a geometry issue, if there is a port that
> behaves badly with respect to a certain polytope computation.
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> Hope that clarifies it - thanks for considering it.
OK, I've added "symbolics".
The current list is:
algebra tbd
algebraic geometry was
algebraic topology jhpalmieri
basic arithmetic somebody
build tbd
calculus burcin
coding theory wdj
coercion robertwb
combinatorics mhansen
commutative algebra malb
cryptography mvngu
cygwin tbd
debian-package tbd
distribution tbd
doctest tbd
documentation mvngu
dsage tbd
elliptic curves cremona
experimental package tbd
factorization tbd
finance was
freebsd tbd
geometry mhampton
givaro cpernet
graphics was
graph theory rlm
group_theory joyner
interact itolkov
interfaces was
linbox cpernet
linear algebra was
memleak tbd
misc tbd
modular forms craigcitro
msvc tbd
notebook boothby
number fields davidloeffler
number theory was
numerical jkantor
optional packages tbd
packages tbd
padics roed
performance tbd
porting drkirkby
quadratic forms justin
relocation tdb
sage-mode ncalexan
solaris drkirkby
spkg-check tbd
statistics amhou
symbolics burcin
user interface was
website/wiki schilly
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