[sage-devel] Re: emacs support

2007-07-07 Thread Carl Witty
On Jul 6, 8:38 pm, iSAGE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (load /usr/local/bin/sage) Try changing this back to (load sage) (Doing (load /usr/local/bin/sage) tries to load a shell script as if it were an Emacs Lisp program; this fails quickly, because the very first character of the shell script is a

[sage-devel] predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-07 Thread William Stein
Hi, I just taught a very intense two week workshop on the Riemann Hypothesis to 24 bright high school students, in which we used SAGE quite a lot each day for 2.5 hours (http://wstein.org/simuw/). I'm now very seriously considering some changes to SAGE as a result. The first is *removing*

[sage-devel] Fwd: [sage-devel] predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-07 Thread Bill Page
On 7/7/07, William Stein wrote: ... So I propose that the only symbolic variables that are predefined are x (since it's so useful to have this predefined), I (=sqrt(-1)), and e (=2.7...). If users want a symbolic variable, they have to use the var command. ... In my opinion there should be

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-07 Thread David Joyner
On 7/7/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just taught a very intense two week workshop on the Riemann Hypothesis to 24 bright high school students, in which we used SAGE quite a lot each day for 2.5 hours (http://wstein.org/simuw/). I'm now very seriously considering some

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-07 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Jul 7, 2007, at 10:44 , William Stein wrote: So I propose that the only symbolic variables that are predefined are x (since it's so useful to have this predefined), I (=sqrt(-1)), and e (=2.7...). If users want a symbolic variable, they have to use the var command. I prefer having

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-07 Thread William Stein
On 7/7/07, Justin C. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 7, 2007, at 10:44 , William Stein wrote: So I propose that the only symbolic variables that are predefined are x (since it's so useful to have this predefined), I (=sqrt(-1)), and e (=2.7...). If users want a symbolic variable,

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jul 7, 2007, at 10:44 AM, William Stein wrote: The first is *removing* having predefined symbolic variable names. I.e., in SAGE right now the variables a..z and A..Z are prdefined at startup to be symbolic variables (except for I and e). +1 for nothing but e, I, and x defined by

[sage-devel] Re: emacs support

2007-07-07 Thread iSAGE
Thank you. Your suggestion worked. Bhalchandra Thatte (load /usr/local/bin/sage) Try changing this back to (load sage) Carl Witty --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group,

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-07 Thread David Harvey
Strongly support having as few predefined variables as possible. The closer to zero the better. Honestly I would even prefer the entire startup namespace to be as empty as possible; I would rather have to import EllipticCurve, NumberField, etc than have them pre-loaded. I know I won't get my

[sage-devel] License of Wiki Content

2007-07-07 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi there, do we have a license on the SAGE Wiki content? I am not so firm when it comes to documentation licenses, but basically I would like it to be as open as possible, e.g. it should be possible to put Wiki content in a book (with proper credits). How about the documentation in general?

[sage-devel] Re: License of Wiki Content

2007-07-07 Thread David Joyner
I'm happy with the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ I think there is also a GPL Documentation license which is similar. + On 7/7/07, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there,