[sage-devel] Implementing symmetric ideals

2009-03-03 Thread Simon King
Dear Sage developers, In another thread, I already announced that I'd like to have "Symmetric Ideals" implemented in Sage (for starters, it is about polynomial rings with countably many variables, and a toy implementation of a Buchberger-style algorithm for computing Gröbner bases for ideals that

[sage-devel] Re: Coercion documentation

2009-03-03 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2009, at 9:26 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Robert Bradshaw >> wrote: >>> >>> I have written up extensive documentation on the coercion model at >>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/coercion . If you

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.rc0

2009-03-03 Thread Carl Witty
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, William Stein wrote: > Here is the one interesting failure I saw on the vmware Fedora Core 32-bit > box: > > sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph_bundle.py" > libpng error: Image width or height is zero in IHDR > *

[sage-devel] Re: File location for pseudo-random number generator

2009-03-03 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Carl Witty wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:35 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Ryan Hinton wrote: >>> ... >>> So I'm trying to implement a search >>> algorithm similar to [1] for arbitrary word widths.  Since the theory is >>> ba

[sage-devel] Unique Representation (was Bookshelf of standard object behaviors and datastructures)

2009-03-03 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Sage developers, Let me recycle this thread to report progress on the bookshelf of standard object behavior. I just posted a small patch: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/5120#comment:3 which implements sage.structure.UniqueRepresentation class. Derived classes inherit

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.rc0

2009-03-03 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Justin Walker wrote: > > > On Mar 3, 2009, at 12:58 AM, mabshoff wrote: > >> >> Hello folks, >> >> finally there goes 3.4.rc0. Compared to alpha0 there have been plenty >> of ReST fixes, improvements to the quadratic forms code and -sdist >> fixes. We also finally

[sage-devel] Re: Naming convention again...

2009-03-03 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Ralf, On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:53:21PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > I just love to see extensive documentation. The current documentation is > not as precise as a mathematician wants. If I try to understand a > function, I don't want to be forced to look at the code. I certainl

[sage-devel] Re: Naming convention again...

2009-03-03 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:04:56PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > Thanks for your feedback. Here is the rationale we had in > > MuPAD-Combinat for *not* using the notation S[n]: > > > Say you want to denote the set of generators of a free module. When > > writing mathematics, one very often u

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [MPFR] new license for GNU MPFR

2009-03-03 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alex Ghitza wrote: > I think people on sage-devel have already heard about this, but just for the > record. Yep, -1 on their unfortunate decision. I hope the properly document their bug fixes in the release notes so that we can backport them. -- William > ---

[sage-devel] Fwd: [MPFR] new license for GNU MPFR

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
I think people on sage-devel have already heard about this, but just for the record. -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul Zimmermann Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:24 AM Subject: [MPFR] new license for GNU MPFR To: m...@loria.fr Cc: ca...@loria.fr, philippe.schaef...@loria.fr, licens.

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] problem with GCD in notebook

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Bober
I'm not sure why you are getting different results from sagenb.com and from the "shell", but I would guess that you must be using two different versions of Sage. Either way... The problem is that when you divide two integers, the result is always a rational number, whether or not that rational nu

[sage-devel] Fwd: Hello!

2009-03-03 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: omar arauz Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:37 PM Subject: Hello! To: "wst...@gmail.com" hello, my name is Omar and I am a student of the panama degree in mathematics and I wonder if I can mandra a copy of the manual in pdf format sage math and Spanish,

[sage-devel] Re: "(error code -7)" Fwd: cannot run sage notebook.

2009-03-03 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage-Devel, > > Can we just frickin' get rid of this stupid "error code -7" crap once > and for all? > > I don't want to release another Sage with this crap. Can't we just comment > out some javascript lines somewhere? Comments? um, implement it and submit a patch?

[sage-devel] HTML on the mirror sites

2009-03-03 Thread Nils Bruin
I noticed a slight blemish on the index page that appears on the mirrors: The problem is the height of the frame. It's given in px rather than em. So, if someone selects a font that is higher than 16px, the text does not fit in the frame. Firefox 2.0.0.14 (and a lot of others as well, I bet) re

[sage-devel] "(error code -7)" Fwd: cannot run sage notebook.

2009-03-03 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-Devel, Can we just frickin' get rid of this stupid "error code -7" crap once and for all? I don't want to release another Sage with this crap. Can't we just comment out some javascript lines somewhere? Comments? (Yeah, yeah, I should just do it myself... instead of whining.) William

[sage-devel] Re: notebook returning "Please enable cookies and try again."

2009-03-03 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to log into my notebook at: > > http://nb.hpfem.org/ > > using an IE7 and windows and unfortunately, no matter how I set the > cookies and delete all the cache+cookies, when I try to login, I get > redirected to /login and g

[sage-devel] notebook returning "Please enable cookies and try again."

2009-03-03 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, I tried to log into my notebook at: http://nb.hpfem.org/ using an IE7 and windows and unfortunately, no matter how I set the cookies and delete all the cache+cookies, when I try to login, I get redirected to /login and get: Please enable cookies and try again. Is anyone able to use the ab

[sage-devel] Re: Naming convention again...

2009-03-03 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear Ralf, > I hope you don't feel offended by my questions. Not at all !!! > I knew the mathematics > you were writing about. I was just saying that either the function > basis() should be renamed to canonical_basis() or all what you wrote in > your mail should better go into the spe

[sage-devel] Re: Shared python library or fPIC issue on AMD64

2009-03-03 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 8:46 am, Jaap Spies wrote: >> Pat LeSmithe wrote: > > [...] > It would, but do the following: take a throw away Python tree and > modify the python.spkg to add -fPIC to the default flags. Take the > libpython2.5.a and turn it into a shared library: > > mabsh..

[sage-devel] Re: Naming convention again...

2009-03-03 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Dear Florent, I hope you don't feel offended by my questions. I knew the mathematics you were writing about. I was just saying that either the function basis() should be renamed to canonical_basis() or all what you wrote in your mail should better go into the specification of basis(). I just

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.rc0

2009-03-03 Thread Justin Walker
On Mar 3, 2009, at 12:58 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > Hello folks, > > finally there goes 3.4.rc0. Compared to alpha0 there have been plenty > of ReST fixes, improvements to the quadratic forms code and -sdist > fixes. We also finally did remove the doc repo and thereby reduced the > size of the sour

[sage-devel] Re: Windows Port of MPIR : Access to Core 2 needed

2009-03-03 Thread Bill Hart
Thanks for the reply ahmet. Turns out we need 64 bit windows, which I should have mentioned. However I have just been told we in fact have Windows figures for Core 2. So somehow I have got this mixed up. It was linux on Core 2 we needed. But of course that is trivial. Thanks for your help, but w

[sage-devel] Re: Windows Port of MPIR : Access to Core 2 needed

2009-03-03 Thread ahmet alper parker
yep. core 2 duo T7250 2 gb ddr2 Sdram on a vaio vgn-fz21m sony laptop with vista home premium 32 bit. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > > Does anyone have access to a Core 2 machine (any speed) with Windows > on it. Brian Gladman of the MPIR project has ported some new assembly >

[sage-devel] Windows Port of MPIR : Access to Core 2 needed

2009-03-03 Thread Bill Hart
Does anyone have access to a Core 2 machine (any speed) with Windows on it. Brian Gladman of the MPIR project has ported some new assembly code of Jason Moxham's to Core 2 and wants to measure the performance and test the build of the new code on a machine with Windows and Core 2 architecture. We

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.rc0

2009-03-03 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > Hello folks, > > finally there goes 3.4.rc0. Compared to alpha0 there have been plenty > of ReST fixes, improvements to the quadratic forms code and -sdist > fixes. We also finally did remove the doc repo and thereby reduced the > size of the source tarball by 12 MB. This broke

[sage-devel] Re: Naming convention again...

2009-03-03 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear Ralf, > Interesting! You probably meant F.basis(). But anyway, how can you be > sure that b['a'] is the "same" as the 'a' in the free module? As usual in mathematics, we identify two different things, whereas when writing code we have to be very precise. The universal property in the

[sage-devel] Re: Naming convention again...

2009-03-03 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> Thanks for your feedback. Here is the rationale we had in > MuPAD-Combinat for *not* using the notation S[n]: > Say you want to denote the set of generators of a free module. When > writing mathematics, one very often uses a family (b_i)_{i in I}. For > for the free module F=Q.a \oplus Q.b \op

[sage-devel] Re: Interested in collaborating

2009-03-03 Thread Simon King
Dear Fidel, On Mar 3, 5:29 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > You might want to have a look at this site: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/10 > > It contains tickets with patches, so you can picket any ticket and > view the attached patches. Perhaps the use of a "patch" needs an explanation.