[sage-devel] Re: License of Wiki Content

2007-07-08 Thread William Stein
On 7/7/07, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-08 Thread didier deshommes
2007/7/8, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My biases are probably based on using mathematica for 17 years, but I like the way it handles numerical vs symbolic computations. So at present, in sage, sin(1) is symbolic, and sin(1.0) is numerical, and +1, I like this behavior as well. And I like

[sage-devel] axiom and sage

2007-07-08 Thread David Joyner
Hello all: Recently there as been a divisive discussion on the Axiom deveopers list which has led to an Axiom fork. Two lead developers, Martin Rubey and Waldek Hebisch quit. Both are extraordinarily talented programmers and Martin is the author of GUESS, a unique and important package which I

[sage-devel] Re: 2.7 alpha^2?

2007-07-08 Thread William Stein
On 7/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey William, can you set up a mercurial server to serve up the branch that you'll most likely release? Yes, that's maybe a good idea, though this directory has *everything* needed to upgrade to sage-2.7.alpha, along with a README.txt that

[sage-devel] Re: axiom and sage

2007-07-08 Thread David Joyner
On 7/8/07, Ralf Hemmecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some ideas: 1. Assuimg Axiom becomes part of SAGE, all Axiom patches are to be voted on democratically among the Axiom deveopers. (Majority rules.) Any comments on any of this? Do you work in sage like that majority rules? I know that

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
2007/7/7, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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...). I myself prefer to import everything by hand in Python. Thus the sage module can have many

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-08 Thread William Stein
Hi, Thanks for all the feedback from everybody about symbolic variables, special functions, etc. For now (i.e., the very near term), I think the best thing to do is: (1) remove all predefined *symbolic* variables except x, leave in e, pi, and I: -- everybody basically wants