On Nov 23, 1:33 pm, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:04:25PM -0800, rjf wrote: > > > > Actually, while Maxima includes library access to Fortran methods, it > > > > is far inferior to what could be done in numeric integration, > > > > as demonstrated by recent Mathematica versions. You would hardly get a > > > > hint that 75% of the sage-support messages are about Maxima. > > > > No they aren't. > > > I have supplied the calculation already. Open up a sage-support > > window. There are 3480 or so messages. Now search for "maxima" and you > > will have a hit on 75% of them. > > Theorem: More than 186% of messages on sage-support are about the > usage of definite articles in the English language.
read about "noise words" and search, and why searching for such words is not a good idea. Here is a noise word list for English, about,after,all,also,an,and,another,any,are,as,at,be,because,been,before being,between,both,but,by,came,can,come,could,did,do,each,for,from,get got,has,had,he,have,her,here,him,himself,his,how,if,in,into,is,it,like make,many,me,might,more,most,much,must,my,never,now,of,on,only,or,other our,out,over,said,same,see,should,since,some,still,such,take,than,that the,their,them,then,there,these,they,this,those,through,to,too,under,up very,was,way,we,well,were,what,where,which,while,who,with,would,you,your,a b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,$, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,_ Note that "maxima" is not a noise word. "The" is a noise word. I find it hard, sometimes, to detect humor on this mailing list, so I don't know if you really are making a joke and are implicitly agreeing with me, or if you actually somehow think that searching for noise words is a proof of relevance. Anyway, I think that it is clear that sage-support is often discussing something related ---as I said, for good or ill-- about maxima. Is there really support for an alternative view?? > > Proof: There are 16516 messages on sage-support. Search for "the", > you get 30800 results. The ensuing computation is left to the gentle > reader. > > -- > Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne > -- Australia --http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- 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
