[sage-devel] Re: fast_float rewrite -- comments requested

2008-06-30 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 28, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Carl Witty wrote: > During Developer Days 1, I announced that I wanted to rewrite > fast_float to support evaluation over more types, to handle common > subexpressions, and to handle conditional expressions. I've started > this project by writing a new version of the

[sage-devel] Re: A First worksheet automatically created for new users

2008-06-30 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 30, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > Timothy Clemans wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It's really easy to create a new worksheet for each new Notebook >> user. >> See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/3535/ >> sage-3535.patch >> for the code. >> >> So what should the first

[sage-devel] Re: using -notebook [options] while starting sage as non-root

2008-06-30 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Philippe Saade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > sage -help explains : > " > Optional arguments: > -coverage -- give info about doctest coverage of files > -h-- print this help message > -v, -version -- print the SAGE version > -notebook [

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.fr : 3.2.1.???

2008-06-30 Thread Philippe Saade
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Philippe! From the uk I got 855.46K/s for a download of > 3.0.3, compared with about 300 from sagemath.org. > > John > Good news ! It's great to give a little help to sage community ! I hope the server is going

[sage-devel] Python/Sage minisymposium at SIAM Annual meeting July 9/10 2008

2008-06-30 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, this is just a reminder, in case you'll be attending the SIAM 2008 annual meeting next week in San Diego, that there will be a 3-part minisymposium focusing on the uses of Python and Sage in scientific computing: http://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=7369 http://m

[sage-devel] Re: A First worksheet automatically created for new users

2008-06-30 Thread Jason Grout
Timothy Clemans wrote: > Hi, > > It's really easy to create a new worksheet for each new Notebook user. > See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/3535/sage-3535.patch > for the code. > > So what should the first worksheet new users work with have in it? How about a 3d graph th

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.fr : 3.2.1.???

2008-06-30 Thread John Cremona
Thanks, Philippe! From the uk I got 855.46K/s for a download of 3.0.3, compared with about 300 from sagemath.org. John 2008/6/30 Philippe Saade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all, > > sagemath.fr server is "ready" > Rsync from sagemath.org will take place everyday > > From France, download of a bi

[sage-devel] using -notebook [options] while starting sage as non-root

2008-06-30 Thread Philippe Saade
Hi, sage -help explains : " Optional arguments: -coverage -- give info about doctest coverage of files -h-- print this help message -v, -version -- print the SAGE version -notebook [options] -- start the SAGE notebook (options are the same as to the note

[sage-devel] sagemath.fr : 3.2.1.???

2008-06-30 Thread Philippe Saade
Hi all, sagemath.fr server is "ready" Rsync from sagemath.org will take place everyday >From France, download of a binary file took place at 800/1600 KB/s. I know bandwith is not so good from outside France but... that's a .fr website :-) next steps are : * setup a public notebook server (by t

[sage-devel] Re: A First worksheet automatically created for new users

2008-06-30 Thread John Cremona
What? Not EllipticCurve('389a').rank() ? John 2008/6/30 Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > So what should the first worksheet new users work with have in it? >> >> 2 + 2 > > I vote for 2 + 3 > > Cheers, > Martin > > -- > name: Martin Albrecht > _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup

[sage-devel] Re: A First worksheet automatically created for new users

2008-06-30 Thread Martin Albrecht
> > So what should the first worksheet new users work with have in it? > > 2 + 2 I vote for 2 + 3 Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~

[sage-devel] Re: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-30 Thread parisse
> Thanks a lot for the bug report, that's a show stopper indeed, I made it: > > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=901 > > Feel free to add any more details to the issue above. > BTW, I have also modified giac source, it should now compile with gcc 4.3.1. > I meant an interest (or h

[sage-devel] Re: A First worksheet automatically created for new users

2008-06-30 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jun 30, 2:54 am, "Timothy Clemans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what should the first worksheet new users work with have in it? > Maybe something like http://www.sagemath.org/tour-quickstart.html ? I would include some text that explains the basics, not just links and some commands... Ha