[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread Hamptonio
Nice article. I'll be at CIMAT next July I think, Jordi if you're reading this I look forward to meeting you if you'll still be there. I'll tape an English version of this to my office door. -Marshall On Sep 28, 11:35 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > If you read Spanish

[sage-devel] Re: quantifier elimination

2007-09-28 Thread David Joyner
I spoke with Chris Brown, who is essentially now the maintainer of qepcad. Here is his response: "Saclib's actual status is probably a bit up in the air. What I might call the saclib "stakeholders" had agreed to GPL it, but everybody was, I guess, too busy to do anything about it. Qepcad's sta

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.8.3 on Solaris - A New Hope

2007-09-28 Thread didier deshommes
2007/9/25, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Sep 24, 10:42 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/24/07, didier deshommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Some build notes: > > > - Singular needs "-lcurses" whenever "-lreadline" is specified. Using > > > it from the con

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Chiasson
There should be a warning on this article. I was drinking milk when I read "supported by the megalomania of Stephen Wolfram" and I almost snorted it out of my nose. On Sep 28, 11:35 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > If you read Spanish, you might enjoy reading this aritlce

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread David Joyner
On 9/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This is a very good article. Since he seems to be a fan of SAGE, I > >> wonder if he would be willing to provide an English version of this paper > >> so that it could be placed on the SAGE website? > > > Actually, when I asked him f

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread gvol
>> This is a very good article. Since he seems to be a fan of SAGE, I >> wonder if he would be willing to provide an English version of this paper >> so that it could be placed on the SAGE website? > Actually, when I asked him for permission to post the link to sage-devel, > he specifically sai

[sage-devel] Re: Compilation problems with SAGE-2.8.5.1 released

2007-09-28 Thread Eliz
I relinked my gcc to gcc-4.1 and the compilation works !!! Thanks !! Elizabeth On Sep 28, 12:00 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/07, Eliz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I still can't build flint-0.2.p3.spkg. > > Looking at your first message, I just realized that >

[sage-devel] Re: Compilation problems with SAGE-2.8.5.1 released

2007-09-28 Thread William Stein
On 9/28/07, Eliz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still can't build flint-0.2.p3.spkg. Looking at your first message, I just realized that you are building using "gcc version 4.3.0 20070531 (experimental)" This is the unstable active development version of GCC. It's highly unlikely to actually

[sage-devel] Re: Compilation problems with SAGE-2.8.5.1 released

2007-09-28 Thread Eliz
I still can't build flint-0.2.p3.spkg. Here is the start of the error messages relating to building flint-0.2.p3: g++ -fPIC -shared -fPIC -o libflint.so mpn_extras.o Z.o memory- manager.o Z_mpn.o ZmodF.o ZmodF_mul.o ZmodF_mul-tuning.o fmpz.o fmpz_poly.o mpz_poly-tuning.o mpz_poly.o ZmodF_poly.o

[sage-devel] Re: making new infix operators

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Page
On 9/27/07, Fernando Perez wrote: > > On 9/27/07, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > > I agree with your caution, but don't see how the examples above mess > > anything up. If an object B wants to pretend to be immutable, it > > merely has to check that nothing points to it before mutating itself > > (and

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread William Stein
On 9/28/07, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be nice to know the name of the author of this article - how > strange that it isn't included in the rant, and all I get from > exploring is "tirinanana?" :-)The author is Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso If you want to e

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread Robert Miller
It would be nice to know the name of the author of this article - how strange that it isn't included in the rant, and all I get from exploring is "tirinanana?" On Sep 28, 11:38 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > William wrote; >

[sage-devel] Re: Compilation problems with SAGE-2.8.5.1 released

2007-09-28 Thread William Stein
Hello, I've posted a new spkg for flint here: http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/flint-0.2.p3.spkg which takes into account all Bill's remarks below. Please try it out (by putting it in SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard/ and typing "make") on your system, and let us know if it fixes the problem for

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread William Stein
On 9/28/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William wrote; > > Here's a Google Translated version to English, which is enough > > to understand most of the article: > > This is a very good article. Since he seems to be a fan of SAGE, I > wonder if he would be willing to provide an English

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread David Joyner
Agreed. Even linking the Spanish version is a good idea I think. On 9/28/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William wrote; > > > Here's a Google Translated version to English, which is enough > > to understand most of the article: > > This is a very good article. Since he seems to be

[sage-devel] Re: number fields

2007-09-28 Thread cwitty
On Sep 28, 9:04 am, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would truly be interesting to do a profile of a complex interval > approach against a purely algebraic approach. It sounds like a > question begging to be answered. Yes. (Along with a purely interval approach, with the root separation

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote; > Here's a Google Translated version to English, which is enough > to understand most of the article: This is a very good article. Since he seems to be a fan of SAGE, I wonder if he would be willing to provide an English version of this paper so that it could be placed on the SAG

[sage-devel] Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread William Stein
Hi, If you read Spanish, you might enjoy reading this aritlce that was written by a mathematician in Mexico right after Mathematica visited his university to make a presentation. It mentioned Sage a lot at the end: http://sums.math.mcgill.ca/~jordi/rants/mathematica.html Here's a Google Tra

[sage-devel] Re: number fields

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Hart
Ah, OK, now I understand. It would truly be interesting to do a profile of a complex interval approach against a purely algebraic approach. It sounds like a question begging to be answered. I notice that in the example William gave, defining complex intervals as AA[x]/(x^2+1) he was able to find

[sage-devel] Re: Compilation problems with SAGE-2.8.5.1 released

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Hart
Well my FLINT makefile *still* seems to have INCS = -I"/usr/include", so if that directory contains gmp.h on her machine, then it could well be picking up the wrong version of GMP. FLINT builds on sage.math without adding this directory to the INCS, so I'd say try removing that directory from the