[sage-devel] SAGE 2.9.rc3 released

2007-12-15 Thread mabshoff
Hello, Okay, we are doing another rc3 release. rc1 and rc2 never saw the light of day on the mailing list, but if you hang around in IRC you would have seen them wiz by. This is now being build on all the various boxen we have access to. It should pass doctests everywhere. The 186 MB tarball is a

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE-2.9.rc0 released!

2007-12-15 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 15, 7:51 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mabshoff wrote: > > Hello, > > > Bug Day 7 turned into a 23 hour coding session for some of us. > > So I am quite tired and don't really am up to remember all the > > details. We merged *a lot* of tickets, I will write a proper > > sum

[sage-devel] Re: "a long, long way to go before it offers serious competition to Matlab."

2007-12-15 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 14, 2007 7:37 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 14, 7:12 pm, "Fabio Tonti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Hmm... the author of this post doesn't seem to realize what Sage is > > about, correct me if I'm wrong!?! > > I am under the impression that the author ex

[sage-devel] Re: univariate factoring

2007-12-15 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Saturday 15 December 2007 15:35, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > > Note that NTL does implement factoring in ZZ[] and moreover it does > > so asymptotically *very* quickly.  It's only for small degree where I > > once noticed pari being faster and made that the default -- and maybe > > that had to do w

[sage-devel] Re: univariate factoring

2007-12-15 Thread William Stein
On Dec 15, 2007 12:35 PM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:12:12AM -0800, William Stein wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2007 7:19 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm, this is interesting. Singular may be frightening for factoring with > > > some

[sage-devel] Re: univariate factoring

2007-12-15 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:12:12AM -0800, William Stein wrote: > On Dec 15, 2007 7:19 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, this is interesting. Singular may be frightening for factoring with > > some > > big bad examples, but it seems we've got some work to do for the small >

[sage-devel] Re: univariate factoring

2007-12-15 Thread William Stein
On Dec 15, 2007 7:19 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, this is interesting. Singular may be frightening for factoring with some > big bad examples, but it seems we've got some work to do for the small cases. > sage: R.=QQ[] # singular > sage: r=y^37-1 > sage: timeit r.factor(

[sage-devel] Re: Sparse SVD

2007-12-15 Thread Joshua Kantor
We currently have no way to compute svd of sparse matrices. Scipy has an experimental wrapper of arpack http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/ which can computes eigenvalues of sparse matrices and svd which is now built with sage, however, only the eigenvalue functionality is wrapped. Spars

[sage-devel] Re: Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-15 Thread John Voight
Sure William, done. Like oh so many things, once you know what to do, it's trivial! JV --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit th

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-15 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 13, 2007 1:34 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but I will refrain myself from doing so. I used to joke, that if I > were given the choice between > > (a) eternal peace and prosperity for mankind > (b) infinite personal power and wealth > (c) having the people responsible for de

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE-2.9.rc0 released!

2007-12-15 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > Hello, > > Bug Day 7 turned into a 23 hour coding session for some of us. > So I am quite tired and don't really am up to remember all the > details. We merged *a lot* of tickets, I will write a proper > summary for 2.9.rc1 or 2.9.final. I would like to thank everybody > who par

[sage-devel] Re: DVDs and Posters

2007-12-15 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 15, 2007 2:40 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007 10:12 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a student, I probably wouldn't buy a DVD if it was $20 and probably > > would forget about it later and wouldn't download Sage. I probably also > > wouldn't

[sage-devel] univariate factoring

2007-12-15 Thread Joel B. Mohler
Hmm, this is interesting. Singular may be frightening for factoring with some big bad examples, but it seems we've got some work to do for the small cases. sage: R.=QQ[] # singular sage: r=y^37-1 sage: timeit r.factor() 1000 loops, best of 3: 1.04 ms per loop sage: S.=ZZ[] # NTL, but the factori

[sage-devel] SAGE-2.9.rc0 released!

2007-12-15 Thread mabshoff
Hello, Bug Day 7 turned into a 23 hour coding session for some of us. So I am quite tired and don't really am up to remember all the details. We merged *a lot* of tickets, I will write a proper summary for 2.9.rc1 or 2.9.final. I would like to thank everybody who participated in Bug Day 7. The 1

[sage-devel] Re: DVDs and Posters

2007-12-15 Thread Jason Grout
I just had this funny thought: People come up the aisle from the Maple/Matlab/Magma/Mathematica booths to the Sage booth asking, "So how much does your software cost?" After talking with them for a few minutes about what the important questions in math software are and giving them a free DVD

[sage-devel] Re: DVDs and Posters

2007-12-15 Thread root
Forget the paper copy, except for a paper insert in the dvd paper case. I have DVDs on the shelf here that cost $20 per 50 or a total of $40 for 100. The Memorex DVD sleeves (100/box) is marked $3. So we're talking $43 total for the materials for 100 DVDs or $0.43 per DVD. Surely the project can