The Mathematical Contest in Modeling [1] asks teams of three undergraduates to prepare a working mathematical model for a vaguely defined applied problem. This year's contest ran last weekend, Friday through Monday. One of our teams at the University of Puget Sound attempted the "locate a serial killer" problem [2] and needed the digamma function as part of analyzing their model.
Imagine their delight in finding a patch [3] to Sage making this function available, merged into 4.3.3.alpha1 last Thursday! They built the alpha release overnight and were able to use the function and Sage in their final report. Thanks to author Burcin Erocal, reviewers Karl-Dieter Crisman, Ross Kyprianou, Minh Van Nguyen, release managers Mitesh Patel and Minh Van Nguyen all for making this available - just-in-time! [1] http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/ [2] http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/contests/2010/problems/ [3] http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6961 -- 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
