Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Axiom musings...

2020-09-25 Thread William Sit
Axiom Space, a Houston-based company, is not related to Axiom the scientific computation system. Or is it? William William Sit Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The City College of The City University of New York New York, NY 10031 homepage: wsit.ccny.cuny.edu

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Axiom musings...

2020-07-26 Thread William Sit
hey should be considered equal (unless there is a problem with computing the LCM of denominators of the coefficients). William William Sit Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The City College of The City University of New York New York, NY 10031 homepage: wsit.ccn

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Axiom musings...

2020-07-21 Thread William Sit
uch a domain (in any computer algebra system) exist these days? After all, nearly three decades have passed. William William Sit Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The City College of The City University of New York New York, NY 10031 homepage: wsit.ccny.cuny.edu __

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Axiom musings...

2020-07-20 Thread William Sit
I am sure I am just being ignorant to pose these questions, because they must have been considered and perhaps solved. In that case, please ignore them and just tell me so. William William Sit Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The City College of The City University of New Yor

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Axiom musings...

2020-07-19 Thread William Sit
ations. Of course, these tools must also be proven with the same rigor since behind every program is an algorithm. William William Sit Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The City College of The City University of New York New York, NY 10031 homepage: wsit.ccny.cu

Re: [Axiom-developer] [EXTERNAL] Re: Axiom's Sane redesign musings

2019-07-12 Thread William Sit
ying system, there is also just one overhead call (currying) for input (here, I assume the currying system has optimized its implementation), and perhaps another (decurrying, if the output is a function). There is no need to reinvent the wheel for either system. William William Sit Professor E

Re: [Axiom-developer] [EXTERNAL] Re: Axiom's Sane redesign musings

2019-06-25 Thread William Sit
ils)". I am ignorant of type theory and often confused by terms like type, equation (equation type?), identity, and even proposition (like x = x + 0 is an identity) as used in proof theories. Please ignore this message if the first paragraph is irrelevant to this thread. William Sit Professor E

Re: [Axiom-developer] PLOS Rules for documenting scientific software

2018-12-22 Thread William Sit
Amen. William William Sit Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The City College of The City University of New York New York, NY 10031 homepage: wsit.ccny.cuny.edu From: Axiom-developer on behalf of Tim Daly Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2018 3

Re: [Axiom-developer] Design Thoughts on Semantic Latex (SELATEX)

2016-08-25 Thread William Sit
think weave is one to many in general, but unweave can be one to one and thus possibly loses the generality of input latex string given to the weave routine. William William Sit Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The City College of The City University of New Yo

Re: [Axiom-developer] Design Thoughts on Semantic Latex (SELATEX)

2016-08-25 Thread William Sit
​Hi Tim: A question: how would you handle overloading of operators like * ("multiplication") in a semantic mark-up? Need the markup be as detailed as the compiler requires or just sloppy enough that the interpreter can figure out the correct semantic? William William Sit

Re: [Axiom-developer] Design Thoughts on Semantic Latex (SELATEX)

2016-08-25 Thread William Sit
nother way, the semantic chunk is a direct (by hand or automatic) translation of the latex version of an algorithm chunk. Also, what would be the scope of the added semantic macros in LaTeX (like \AD, \INT)? Can their scope be limited only to semantic chunks? William William Sit Professo

Re: [Axiom-developer] Directions

2015-07-04 Thread William Sit
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Re: [Axiom-developer] [Axiom-mail] manipulating series not as streams but as sumations

2014-10-21 Thread William Sit
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Re: [Axiom-developer] thesis on symbolic summation

2014-10-09 Thread William Sit
schrieb Victor Adamchik: i originally thought that implementing (or reimplementing) would be easy as a walk in the park... Victor On 10/8/2014 3:31 PM, William Sit wrote: Didn't Schneider implemented the algorithm in Mathematica around 2000? http://www.emis.de/journals/SLC/wpapers

Re: [Axiom-developer] thesis on symbolic summation

2014-10-08 Thread William Sit
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Re: [Axiom-developer] Online Documentation broken

2014-03-01 Thread William Sit
___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor Emeritus Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/291D Tel: 212-650-5179 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc

Re: [Axiom-developer] TeX output of a**bc

2012-07-11 Thread William Sit
. Kurt Am 11.07.2012 19:48, schrieb William Sit: In TeX, a^bc would be interpreted mathematically as (a^b)c, whereas a^{bc} would be interpreted as a^{b c}, where the exponent is a product of b and c, or an application of b on c. Neither interpretation is what is intended if bc is a single

Re: [Axiom-developer] Testing if (72*a^3*b^5)^(1/2) is equivalent to 6*a*b^2*(2*a*b)^(1/2)

2010-03-08 Thread William Sit
-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor Emeritus Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/202C Tel: 212-650-5179 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc

Re: [Axiom-developer] pointers

2009-11-10 Thread William Sit
) (Fraction (Polynomial (Integer))) c:=destruct(b) c.2 which returns (Polynomial (Integer)) Does that help? Tim William Sit wrote: Tim: Interesting. Is there a similar function that is more structural? say, can I test whether some domain (which may be passed as a parameter of type Field

Re: [Axiom-developer] pointers

2009-11-10 Thread William Sit
. I came across this requirement in algorithms that may take advantage of special knowledge of how the coefficient field is constructed. William On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:21:28 -0600 Gabriel Dos Reis g...@integrable-solutions.net wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:09 PM, William Sit wy

Re: [Axiom-developer] pointers

2009-11-10 Thread William Sit
SExpression (10) - e:=(c.1=c1.1) (10) false Type: Boolean William On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:38:25 -0500 William Sit wy...@sci.ccny.cuny.edu wrote: Thanks, Tim. That is exactly what I am looking for. Now I would like to compare c.1

Re: [Axiom-developer] pointers

2009-11-10 Thread William Sit
arguments for equal come from the same domain SExpression. So is this a bug? William On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:58 -0500 William Sit wy...@sci.ccny.cuny.edu wrote: Tim: Sorry about the last message, please ignore. The problem is solved (I was simply not being careful) and made some false claims

Re: [Axiom-developer] pointers

2009-11-10 Thread William Sit
detected within library code: Non-list protected-symbol-warn called with (NIL) William Waldek Hebisch wrote: William Sit wrote: Gabriel: Thanks for the response. Your script shows how to get the parameters, not the constructor. I do not have OpenAxiom installed (sorry

Re: [Axiom-developer] pointers//Decontructing domains

2009-11-10 Thread William Sit
the SExpressions out to other domains. Sometimes it is painful but it works. So: a:=FiniteField(5,2) b:=devaluate(a) string(SYMBOL_-NAME(b.1)$Lisp) == FiniteField (of type String) integer(b.1) == 5 (of type PositiveInteger) Does this help? Tim William Sit wrote: It appears

Re: [Axiom-developer] pointers

2009-11-10 Thread William Sit
Gabriel: Thanks again for all the help. I'll download the OpenAxiom version and try it. William On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:25:08 -0600 Gabriel Dos Reis g...@integrable-solutions.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM, William Sit wy...@sci.ccny.cuny.edu wrote: Hi Waldek: Thanks

Re: [Axiom-developer] empty list results, inverse trig substitutions, Floats in solve

2009-10-04 Thread William Sit
___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor Emeritus Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/202C Tel: 212-650-5179 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc

Re: [Axiom-developer] empty list results, inverse trig substitutions, Floats in solve

2009-10-03 Thread William Sit
to be applicable! Does that make sense, that? Thanks in advance for any clues! Are these bugs? James ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor Emeritus

Re: [Axiom-developer] bad errormessage: There are no library operations named ADEF

2009-07-24 Thread William Sit
-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor Emeritus Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/202C Tel: 212-650-5179 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc

Re: [Axiom-developer] composition of functions not supported in axiom ???

2009-07-24 Thread William Sit
. We make your business move. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor Emeritus Mathematics, City College of New

[Axiom-developer] Dr. Kovacic died April 1

2009-04-04 Thread William Sit
, he continued to attend the Kolchin Seminar at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and participated in discussions. We will miss him dearly. Sadly, William -- William Sit, Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics..Email: wy...@sci.ccny.cuny.edu City College of New YorkTel: 212-650

Re: [Axiom-developer] 20081202.02.tpd.patch (website download.html add Doyen Thumbdrive)

2008-12-07 Thread William Sit
Dear Tim and Alfredo: Okay, after some experimentation, I finally was able to save changes to Doyen on the USB drive. Probably, it can easily be saved on the hard disk as well. The trick is to run from the USB drive (after it has booted into Doyen) /boot/isolinux/liloinst.sh after the

Re: [Axiom-developer] 20081202.02.tpd.patch (website download.html add Doyen Thumbdrive)

2008-12-06 Thread William Sit
. William William Sit, Professor Emeritus Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/202C Tel: 212-650-5179 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc/ ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http

Re: [Axiom-developer] 20081202.02.tpd.patch (website download.html add Doyen Thumbdrive)

2008-12-03 Thread William Sit
Tim: I downloaded the zip file, unzip and copy boot and DOYEN directories to the USB drive. Running bootinst.bat results in MBR not written (Access denied). I login-ed on a Windows machine running Vista Home Premium with SP1, as administrator. Permission was denied due to physical access to

Re: [Axiom-developer] 20081202.02.tpd.patch (website download.html add Doyen Thumbdrive)

2008-12-03 Thread William Sit
Tim: This email is not Axiom related, but Doyen OS related. Maybe it is because I do not know how Doyen functions, but I believe the Doyen USB version is not meant to replace an alternative bootable version in the sense that the Doyen drive is not writable (the USB drive is writable, but

Re: [Axiom-developer] cannot build axiom

2008-05-28 Thread William Sit
On Wed, 28 May 2008 19:57:58 -0400 root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what will you tell them that you cannot figure out by a proper configure script automatically? I do not know how to automatically and generically figure out the correct string, e.g. debian, macosxppc, fedora9 ,etc. It

Re: [Axiom-developer] possible bug

2008-04-29 Thread William Sit
Psi Phi [x,y,Z.2], t=0)::ULS(EXPR INT, t, 0)) output first Phi Psi Phi [x,y,Z2] ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor of Mathematics, City

Re: [Axiom-developer] 20080416.01.tpd.patch (CATS Schaums-Axiom equivalence testing (2-7))

2008-04-17 Thread William Sit
Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor of Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/202C Tel: 212-650-5179, Fax: 212-862-0004 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc

Re: [Axiom-developer] out of space

2008-04-03 Thread William Sit
Franz Lehner wrote: Question: How exactly do I issue an ALLOCATE command? For me a command like )lisp (si::allocate-contiguous-pages 3 t) seemed to work, although only at the beginning of a session. You can get memory information with )lisp (room) I found this somewhere on the

[Axiom-developer] out of space

2008-04-02 Thread William Sit
I ran a computation (computing the radical of an ideal) that aborted after 9 days with this message: -- f0 is y0^2-x0^3, and f1, f2, f3 are the first, second and third derivative of f0 -- when x1, x2, x3 (and y1, y2, y3) are interpreted as first, second and third -- derivatives of x0 (and y0)

Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp

2008-03-03 Thread William Sit
@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor of Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/202C Tel: 212-650-5179, Fax: 212-862-0004 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom: fixed and fixed proposed bit vectors

2008-01-26 Thread William Sit
.' Martin William Sit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Martin: May I suggest using a bit vector to notate the fixes? I propose that the bits of the bit vector be assigned according to chronological order of axiom branches, so that bit 0 is for Tim's Axiom, bit 1 for FriCAS and bit 2

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] mathml sums and products patch

2008-01-12 Thread William Sit
On 12 Jan 2008 19:06:09 +0100 Martin Rubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we need is a domain ASCII, that converts OutputForm to ASCII art. I don't think that this can be too difficult: you could start with the mathml domain and gradually replace mathml markup by ascii art. Martin I think

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom breakage when installing OpenAxiom

2007-09-30 Thread William Sit
@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor of Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/202C Tel: 212-650-5179, Fax: 212-862-0004 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc

[Axiom-developer] Re: bug #361

2007-09-08 Thread William Sit
- \|- 1 log(- 3\|- 1 \|243 \|- v - v \|243 + 9\|- 1 ) / 6+---+ 12\|243 Type: Union(Expression Integer,...) (2) - )spool -- William Sit Department of Mathematics..Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] City College of New YorkTel

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: bug #361

2007-09-08 Thread William Sit
-expression, i.e. (-4+v^3) to (-4*v^3) The integral presented in issue #361 still fails in newer versions of Axiom. Regards, Bill Page. On 9/8/07, William Sit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. In that case, the report file should be closed (assuming the integral is correct

Re: [Aldor-l] [Axiom-developer] has and with (was curious algebrafailure)

2007-08-16 Thread William Sit
Martin Rubey wrote: I have used Aldor, SPAD, the Aldor interpreter and the axiom interpreter quite intensively, and found the combination Aldor + axiom interpreter formidable. What I found most impressive is that the axiom interpreter is designed well enough to work seamlessly with new

[Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion

2007-08-16 Thread William Sit
Ralf Hemmecke wrote: On 08/16/2007 12:11 PM, William Sit wrote: ... why aren't you and Ralf in favor of improving the compiler so that the compiler can be equally helpful? Because I believe we will end up in something like Maple or Mathematica. I constantly hear people complain

Re: [Aldor-l] [Axiom-developer] has and with (was curious algebrafailure)

2007-08-14 Thread William Sit
Martin Rubey wrote: My personal preference is: * no automatic coercion in the compiler In principle, I agree with this. The source of library code should be unambiguous (in addition to well-documented). In practice, it would be nice if there is some help, such as spitting out possible

Re: [Axiom-developer] has and with (was curious algebra failure)

2007-08-13 Thread William Sit
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, William Sit wrote: | Isn't the problem whether 'Monad has SetCategory with *:(%,%)-%' ? If the question is formulated in terms of has, then I think the answer is unambiguously yes. But, is that the way the compiler is intended or does

Re: [Axiom-developer] has and with (was curious algebra failure)

2007-08-13 Thread William Sit
-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer -- William Sit Department of Mathematics..Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] City College of New YorkTel: 212-650-5179 New York, NY 10031, USA.Fax: 212-862-0004 Home page

Re: [Axiom-developer] has and with and bug

2007-08-13 Thread William Sit
Ralf Hemmecke wrote: Let's compile and run the program below. woodpecker:~/scratchaldor -laldor -grun aaa.as has with {foo: ()-()} = T has with {bar: ()-()} = T has with {rhx: ()-()} = T has with {foo: ()-()} = T has with {bar: ()-()} = T has with {rhx: ()-()} = T MDom has rhx? T

Re: [Axiom-developer] has and with (was curious algebra failure)

2007-08-12 Thread William Sit
Bill Page and I have a discussion on has and with on http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxCategories but the changes/emails seem not to have been sent out yet. William ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org

Re: [Axiom-developer] has and with (was curious algebra failure)

2007-08-12 Thread William Sit
Bill: Ah, of course (SandBox), stupid me! Thanks for upgrading the page. Now I wonder if I should remove my wrong conjecture on has has higher precedence. What do you think (as a general principle, should wrong explanations be removed)? William On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:00:40 -0400 Bill Page

Re: [Axiom-developer] has and with (was curious algebra failure)

2007-08-12 Thread William Sit
The question is not so much whether the rules are followed as to *when* a type (domain and category, perhaps even package) becomes named. Note that the examples given in Davenport are for domains, not categories. Are there differences in handling between named domains and named categories? unnamed

Re: [Axiom-developer] has and with (was curious algebra failure)

2007-08-12 Thread William Sit
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:19:47 -0500 (CDT) Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Bill Page wrote: | On 8/12/07, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Bill Page wrote: | | ... | | It should be fine because of rule 2: | | | | 2. Anonymous types are equivalent

[Axiom-developer] Crystal, Pamphlets and LaTex

2007-07-21 Thread William Sit
Epilog: I must be writing this after smoking ... . I have put this away in my draft folder for a few days because I know little about databases. Encouraged by Stephen's prompt, I decide finally to submit it for whatever it is not worth. I suppose I could have rephrased things in question form,

Re: [Axiom-developer] Bug in GeneralizedMultivariateFactorize?

2007-07-20 Thread William Sit
. -- Waldek Hebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer -- William Sit Department of Mathematics..Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] City College of New

Re: [Axiom-developer] Unions in Spad

2007-07-15 Thread William Sit
Stephen Wilson wrote: William Sit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In summary, we need: (1) make a list or set of domains from SetCategory (or any category) a legal construction (2) SetAsDomain to convert a list or set of domains (or elements, or maps, perhaps or categories

Re: [Axiom-developer] Unions in Spad

2007-07-13 Thread William Sit
William Sit wrote: In the proposed IndexedUnion, what is missing is the Rep:= Record[index:I, value: g(i)]. Actually, this can probably be similated by Record(i:I, x:Any) to avoid dependent types. However, there is another problem: the signature of the index map g: I-List

Re: [Axiom-developer] Unions in Spad (Correction)

2007-07-13 Thread William Sit
- INT implemented: slot $(Integer) from INT [5] signature: INT - INT implemented: slot $$ from INT [6] signature: INT - INT implemented: slot $$ from INT (6) 1 Type: Integer William --- William Sit

Re: [Axiom-developer] Unions in Spad

2007-07-13 Thread William Sit
Dear Bill: Before we get into more category theory, the prerequisite for even talking about colimits (or limits) is the very simple idea of a family of morphisms (as well as objects) as required in these constructions (for example, the notion of a diagram). This is no more than an indexed set and

Re: [Axiom-developer] Unions in Spad

2007-07-12 Thread William Sit
Stephen Wilson wrote: Main question is _why_ they [hybrid union] might be desirable. Spad does not support them. Aldor might in theory, but only in theory. [...] Do you have an argument for `hybrid' Unions? Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: In general, I'm of the opinion that the language should

Re: [Axiom-developer] Unions in Spad

2007-07-12 Thread William Sit
understanding the simplest domain constructions, how can we ever document the cutting edge algebra domains?) I read your post over a few times ... Sorry, I'll try to write clearer next time around. (Clearly, it is difficult to write ...). William Sit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The above

Re: [Axiom-developer] Unions in Spad

2007-07-12 Thread William Sit
Stephen Wilson wrote: I agree that the challenge is great. Perhaps if we can get an IndexedUnion implemented we can work together to get some good documentation together? You are far more capable of writing for the mathematically inclined reader, and I would hope to be able to contribute

[Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s? (was: Paper usage policy (for authors))

2007-07-01 Thread William Sit
C Y wrote (Re: Paper usage policy (for authors)): Whether pamphlets qualify is probably a question for a lawyer. I'm assuming anyone other than the original author has no special rights period. Question for a lawyer means question for the courts? If the authors have the residual rights as

Re: [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?

2007-07-01 Thread William Sit
://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer William Sit, Professor of Mathematics, City College of New York Office: R6/202C Tel: 212-650-5179, Fax: 212-862-0004 Home Page: http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~wyscc/ ___ Axiom

Re: [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?

2007-07-01 Thread William Sit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a constant drumbeat to expand the number of developers. To quote Chris DiDona, Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone (Open Sources 2.0 ISBN 0-596-00802-3, pXXVIII): Brooks' Law appears to set a fundamental limit on the optimal size of programming teams --

[Axiom-developer] Re: Fork time

2007-06-30 Thread William Sit
Dear Waldek: I feel sad that you have decided to listen to Tim, but precisely at the wrong time! I understand that your decision has been provoked by Tim's message (A modest proposal). I was surprised that Tim chose to communicate his convictions in such a strong and provocative manner. I take

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal (PLEQN documentation)

2007-06-30 Thread William Sit
Ralf Hemmecke wrote: [sniped] I don't quite know whether Tim wants to have both kinds of documentation in the Axiom project. If I understood correctly, that is the facets of the crystal view. Yes, Axiom should be a big monster which not only contains code. It should be a collection of 1

[Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal

2007-06-29 Thread William Sit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William, I apologize that I've been sarcastic to you in public. As you know from personal experience I hold you and your opinions in high esteem. Please accept my apology. Tim A bit of sarcasm was exactly what's needed to bring the issues out! But be careful

[Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal

2007-06-29 Thread William Sit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [sniped] That said, you have recently agreed to allow me to use the paper I converted as the basis for a pamphlet form of your work. Since you disagree so strongly about making pamphlets perhaps we can compromise. I'll make an effort to understand your algebra and an

[Axiom-developer] A suggestion for Gold

2007-06-26 Thread William Sit
The following email (with minor changes) was originally sent to Tim and he replied: Post your suggestion publicly. Ask for a vote. We will go with the majority opinion. You get to keep the final count. So please feel free to comment, and may be Bill Page can set up a sandbox page to keep votes?

Re: [Axiom-developer] exact quotient

2007-06-21 Thread William Sit
Martin: Regarding your test for multivariate polynomial multiplication: On my machine (Windows), I got: [[10,1], [10,0], [10,1], [10,0], [10,1], [20,2], [20,2], [20,1], [20,1],[20,2], [30,4], [30,4], [30,3], [30,4], [30,4], [40,8], [40,7], [40,7],[40,8], [40,7], [50,12],

Re: [Axiom-developer] exact quotient

2007-06-21 Thread William Sit
the data-structure comes into play. Not sure if converting your computation to DMP and back would save time. William -- William Sit Department of Mathematics..Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] City College of New YorkTel: 212-650-5179 New York, NY 10031, USA.Fax: 212-862

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Hyperdoc

2007-06-15 Thread William Sit
Martin Rubey wrote: Bill Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and, most importantly, sockets on windows! ??? There is support for sockets on Windows in GCL and this works for axiom-0.1.4 on Windows. In fact, that's good news. But, why couldn't anybody run my code on windows so far?

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Hyperdoc

2007-06-15 Thread William Sit
According the Microsoft, after World Wide Web Publishing started, web pages should be placed in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot. Is there a patch I can do for hyper.lisp that would change where files served are located? Your Web service is now running. You do not currently have a default Web page established

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Hyperdoc

2007-06-15 Thread William Sit
) network like a home network. Or is the Axiomsys to Browser connection independent of World Wide Web Publishing? William On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:11:25 -0400 William Sit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According the Microsoft, after World Wide Web Publishing started, web pages should be placed in C

[Axiom-developer] Re: testing hyperdoc package on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread William Sit
On 11 Jun 2007 09:57:43 +0200 Martin Rubey wrote: William, I just saw (1) - SOCKET(8080, getDocumentation$HyperDoc) don't you need to package call SOCKET$Lisp ? Thanks Martin. I was just following your directions :-). [...] Try ops: Database IndexCard := getDatabase(o $OperationsQuery

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: testing hyperdoc package on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread William Sit
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:45:49 -0400 Alfredo Portes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To remove the grep error do as explained by Waldek: )lisp (setf |$standard| 't) )lisp (setf |$saturn| 'nil) Yes, that does get around the GREP problem, but a new one pops up: (1) - )sys grep hyper hyper~1.spa

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: testing hyperdoc package on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread William Sit
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:36:39 -0400 William Sit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) - SOCKET(8080, getDocumentation$HyperDoc) grep.exe: libdb.text: No such file or directory [...] I believe this is due to the 8.3 convention. I see libdb.text in the path: .../windows/lib/. I see that you are also

[Axiom-developer] Re: testing hyperdoc package on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread William Sit
On 11 Jun 2007 14:50:04 +0200 Martin Rubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Sit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (1) - )library hyper HyperDoc is now explicitly exposed in frame initial HyperDoc will be automatically loaded when needed from /OpenAxiom/axiom014/mnt/windows/lib

[Axiom-developer] Re: testing hyperdoc package on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread William Sit
Martin Rubey wrote: Dear William, first of all, thank you for your patience! Thank you, and Bill, and Alfredo for helping. roughly: (I put )lib HYPER )lisp (load hyper.lisp) SOCKET(8080, getDocumentation$HyperDoc)$Lisp into a file hyper.input) I still can't read an input

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: testing hyperdoc package on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread William Sit
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:23:11 +0200 (CEST) Franz Lehner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What? Is this axiom in 2007? How can you use axiom without reading input files? well, some of my students reported that copy and paste does not work and came up with handwritten notes for the exercise sessions

[Axiom-developer] Re: [#358 Variable is apparently always assumed to be positive?]Functions and Segments

2007-06-11 Thread William Sit
wonder why you did not move it to a separate IssueTracker? It is bug in the implementation of 'expand' (incompatibility with 'BY'). On June 7, 2007 9:21 PM William Sit wrote: ... I am overwhelmed by the amount of Axiom emails and most I could not follow. I don't even have the guts to try

[Axiom-developer] testing hyperdoc package on Windows

2007-06-10 Thread William Sit
Dear Martin: I tried hyperdoc package on Windows /mathaction/SandBoxHyperDocReplacement. It compiled and loaded, but SOCKET does not work: OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=0 (No runtime error checking), Space=0, Speed=3, (Debug quality ignored) Finished compiling

Re: [Axiom-developer] How to allocate more space for Axiom on Windows

2007-02-04 Thread William Sit
is exhausted. Currently, 82872 pages are allocated. Use ALLOCATE to expand the space. protected-symbol-warn called with (NIL) --- Waldek Hebisch wrote: William Sit wrote: System error: The storage for CONS is exhausted. Currently, 82689 pages are allocated. Use ALLOCATE

[Axiom-developer] How to allocate more space for Axiom on Windows

2007-02-03 Thread William Sit
tell me how to increase the space? Exactly how big is one page? I have 2GB RAM. Is it possible to allocate the max to Axiom (under Windows XP)? Thanks. William -- William Sit Department of Mathematics..Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] City College of New YorkTel: 212-650-5179 New York, NY

Re: [Axiom-developer] How to allocate more space for Axiom on Windows

2007-02-03 Thread William Sit
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:41:57 -0500 William Sit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System error: The storage for CONS is exhausted. Currently, 82689 pages are allocated. Use ALLOCATE to expand the space. Can any one tell me how to increase the space? Exactly how big is one page? I have 2GB RAM

[Axiom-developer] Disgruntled Debian Developers Delay Etch

2007-01-05 Thread William Sit
The following may be contraversial but their experience may be relevant to Axiom Foundation. Perhaps we can avoid what Jaspert predicted, and please do not start any discussions :-). (This is old news, so may be it has been posted already, or the situation has changed.) Disgruntled Debian

Re: [Axiom-developer] Disgruntled Debian Developers Delay Etch

2007-01-05 Thread William Sit
Bill Page wrote: So it seems that we can only wish that we had the problems the Debian has. :-) Maybe that is a blessing in disguise. I think the donations have been dribbling in because people do not see how the awards can be helpful. When the award is too small, it is not a meaningful

Re: [Axiom-developer] a problem, maybe with strict typing

2006-12-21 Thread William Sit
Martin Rubey wrote: it seems that I am quite difficult to understand. ... The package is attached below. I would agree :-). Since you already have the package, I don't know why you are asking these questions! Actually, after a preliminary reading your package, I have more questions than

Re: [Axiom-developer] a problem, maybe with strict typing

2006-12-19 Thread William Sit
Martin Rubey wrote: First things first. I had yet another idea, which avoids the problems of EXPR a little. To put things into the right setting, I quote our discussion: I definitely don't want to restrict to EXPR INT. It should work with any domain that has TRANFUN. No you don't

Re: [Axiom-developer] a problem, maybe with strict typing

2006-12-18 Thread William Sit
Martin: If I understand your question correctly, at least in the interpreter, there is no need to go to SUP F, especially for domains like F = EXPR INT. In the example you give, Now let F be EXPR INT, or, in fact, any domain that has TRANFUN. Already series as simple as g +- sin g - sin 1,

Re: [Axiom-developer] a problem, maybe with strict typing

2006-12-18 Thread William Sit
Martin Rubey wrote: If I understand your question correctly, at least in the interpreter, there is no need to go to SUP F, especially for domains like F = EXPR INT. In the example you give, So, you would check whether F allows a transcendental element (i.e., another variable)? That

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#329 fuzzy error in factor.] Windows version seems correct.

2006-12-17 Thread William Sit
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:20:56 -0500 root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, I tried this on the May 18, 2005 and December 14, 2006 versions. The December version is the current gold, arch version 50. I can't seem to reproduce the error. Curious about the factor factorial 12399 If I do

[Axiom-developer] Re: factor bug

2006-12-17 Thread William Sit
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:00:12 -0500 root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NAG MAY18/05DEC14/06 f:=119646463 f:=119646463 f:=119646463 factor f = 119646463factor f = 119646463 factor f = 119646463 prime? f = falseprime? f = false

Re: [Axiom-developer] One more integral to add to the tests, if not already there

2006-10-17 Thread William Sit
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:18:37 -0700 (PDT) C Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: integrate(%e^cos(x)*cos(x-sin(x)),x = 0..2*%pi) Apparently this can be solved by Mathematica in it's upcoming version. We currently get failed. Cheers, CY Apparently, Mathematica got this wrong in Version 5.2: In[1]:=

[Axiom-developer] Re: obsolete pages and portal download

2006-09-01 Thread William Sit
Bill Page wrote: On August 31, 2006 6:11 PM William Sit wrote: Is there any info that is still useful on http://page.axiom-developer.org? No, I don't think so. This was my original personal home page on the axiom-developer site. In addition to the wiki and the portal, anyone who has

[Axiom-developer] Re: obsolete pages and portal download

2006-09-01 Thread William Sit
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:01:07 -0400 Bill Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this better? http://page.axiom-developer.org Honestly? No. I did not check very carefully, but it seems all you did was adding a front page as your personal web page (which is good). But anyone reaching, say the page

[Axiom-developer] obsolete pages and portal download

2006-08-31 Thread William Sit
Dear Bill: Is there any info that is still useful on http://page.axiom-developer.org? Can some of these pages be deleted (or made unreadable by the public)? It becomes very confusing to new users with so many info pages from the past. Below are some sample wanderings: I went and logged into

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