[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: On 12-Apr-09, at 9:57 PM, William Stein wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: On 12-Apr-09, at 9:41 PM, William Stein wrote: Hi, I'm going to write something

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread Dan Drake
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets. If any of you reading this have also graded homework turned in as Sage worksheets, and have thoughts about

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Dan Drake dr...@kaist.edu wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets.  If any of you reading this have also

[sage-devel] Re: Commutative diagrams in notebook

2009-04-13 Thread gerhard
just to get back to the original question: did 'inserting a usepackage{}' command ever get resolved? It would be nice to be able to do this from the worksheet, rather than modifying sage code. I also wonder if packages like tikz could be made to work? -gerhard

[sage-devel] Re: Commutative diagrams in notebook

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:55 AM, gerhard ge01...@yahoo.de wrote: just to get back to the original question: did 'inserting a usepackage{}' command ever get resolved? No. Somebody should at least create a trac ticket. It would be nice to be able to do this from the worksheet, rather than

[sage-devel] Re: Commutative diagrams in notebook

2009-04-13 Thread Jason Grout
Bill Hart wrote: Hold that thought Rob. I'm not joking around. If you have been a significant contributor to this sort of thing, you sound like exactly the sort of person to have contributing to and working on such an enterprise. This is so easy to get going it isn't funny. We could simply

[sage-devel] Re: Toggle for the static doc sidebar?

2009-04-13 Thread Jason Grout
Pat LeSmithe wrote: William Stein wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Pat LeSmithe qed...@gmail.com wrote: Please see the attached snapshots. The top and bottom bars also have a search box and source link. If there's interest, I can try to get the toggle working in live documentation.

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Dan Drake dr...@kaist.edu wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets. If any of you

[sage-devel] Re: Commutative diagrams in notebook

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: Bill Hart wrote: Hold that thought Rob. I'm not joking around. If you have been a significant contributor to this sort of thing, you sound like exactly the sort of person to have contributing to and working on

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: William Stein wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Dan Drake dr...@kaist.edu wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30

[sage-devel] worksheet question: what does Save quit do? What does Discard quit do?

2009-04-13 Thread John H Palmieri
So there are these buttons at the top of my worksheets saying Save, Save quit, Discard quit. What do they do? Do we need them? Random comments: It seems to me that right now, Save quit and Discard quit do the same thing: return to the list of active worksheets. For example, I just opened a

[sage-devel] Re: worksheet question: what does Save quit do? What does Discard quit do?

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: So there are these buttons at the top of my worksheets saying Save, Save quit, Discard quit.  What do they do?  Do we need them? Random comments: It seems to me that right now, Save quit and Discard quit do

[sage-devel] Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
Hi, I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've posted here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref william -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group,

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've posted here:  http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref All those quickrefs look good. It's a nice idea. Ondrej

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've posted here:  http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref All those quickrefs look good. It's

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've posted

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 13, 11:25 am, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Maybe someone should make one about finite element methods using Python. I agree, but SPD is much higher priority for me now:

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:32 AM, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: On Apr 13, 11:25 am, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Maybe someone should make one about finite element methods using Python. I

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:32 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread John Cremona
2009/4/13 Pat LeSmithe qed...@gmail.com: jinvariant ? What Pat means is: in E.j_invariant(), the underscore is lost and the following i is a subscript. Perhaps a \ i missing? John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Pat LeSmithe qed...@gmail.com wrote: jinvariant ? Previously, I added direct download links to the quickref page, mainly to save time but also to avoid an apparent plug-in-related browser crash (32-bit Firefox 3.0.8 on Linux).  The direct links may be more

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread Pat LeSmithe
jinvariant ? Previously, I added direct download links to the quickref page, mainly to save time but also to avoid an apparent plug-in-related browser crash (32-bit Firefox 3.0.8 on Linux). The direct links may be more likely to break, though. Should the quickrefs be part of the Sage

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 13, 12:41 pm, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/13 Pat LeSmithe qed...@gmail.com: jinvariant ? What Pat means is:  in E.j_invariant(), the underscore is lost and the following i is a subscript.  Perhaps a \ i missing? Yes, it is a typo. William marked it such in

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread mark mcclure
On Apr 13, 1:37 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've posted here:  http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref Very nice, but the complex_plot example doesn't work with my sage 3.4 - the same version that is indicated on the card. I found

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, mark mcclure mcmcc...@unca.edu wrote: On Apr 13, 1:37 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've posted here:  http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref Very nice, but the complex_plot example doesn't work with

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 13, 1:26 pm, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, mark mcclure mcmcc...@unca.edu wrote: On Apr 13, 1:37 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've posted here:  

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, mark mcclure mcmcc...@unca.edu wrote: On Apr 13, 1:37 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've posted here:  

[sage-devel] Re: worksheet question: what does Save quit do? What does Discard quit do?

2009-04-13 Thread Maurizio
Hi everybody On Apr 13, 6:57 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: So there are these buttons at the top of my worksheets saying Save, Save quit, Discard quit.  What do they do?  Do we need them? Random comments: It seems to me that right now, Save quit and Discard quit do

[sage-devel] Re: worksheet question: what does Save quit do? What does Discard quit do?

2009-04-13 Thread David Joyner
I don't know if this comment is relevant or not to this thread or not but I use the Discardquit button *very* frequently. I tell my students to log into the local Sage server, do the homework, and share it with me. They often leave the process going (I guess they just kill their browser?), so I

[sage-devel] Re: worksheet question: what does Save quit do? What does Discard quit do?

2009-04-13 Thread Nick Alexander
On 13-Apr-09, at 4:17 PM, David Joyner wrote: I don't know if this comment is relevant or not to this thread or not but I use the Discardquit button *very* frequently. I tell my students to log into the local Sage server, do the homework, and share it with me. They often leave the

[sage-devel] Re: worksheet question: what does Save quit do? What does Discard quit do?

2009-04-13 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-Apr-09, at 4:17 PM, David Joyner wrote: I don't know if this comment is relevant or not to this thread or not but I use the Discardquit button *very* frequently. I tell my students to log into the local

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 13, 2009, at 1:41 PM, mabshoff wrote: On Apr 13, 1:26 pm, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, mark mcclure mcmcc...@unca.edu wrote: On Apr 13, 1:37 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I made an Elementary Number Theory quickref, which I've

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread Ondrej Certik
Actually, it's not using fast_callable yet, but I do plan on changing that (which should make things much faster). As for the zeta function--is mpmath faster than pari? (If so, should we be using it for zeta in general?) Probably not (yet). I just didn't know that Pari can do such nice

[sage-devel] Re: worksheet question: what does Save quit do? What does Discard quit do?

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:47 PM, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-Apr-09, at 4:17 PM, David Joyner wrote: I don't know if this comment is relevant or not to this thread or not but I use the

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread Nick Alexander
On 13-Apr-09, at 8:08 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: Actually, it's not using fast_callable yet, but I do plan on changing that (which should make things much faster). As for the zeta function--is mpmath faster than pari? (If so, should we be using it for zeta in general?) Probably not (yet).

[sage-devel] Re: worksheet question: what does Save quit do? What does Discard quit do?

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Maurizio maurizio.gran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody On Apr 13, 6:57 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: So there are these buttons at the top of my worksheets saying Save, Save quit, Discard quit.  What do they do?  Do we need them?

[sage-devel] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-Apr-09, at 8:08 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: Actually, it's not using fast_callable yet, but I do plan on changing that (which should make things much faster). As for the zeta function--is mpmath faster than

[sage-devel] Re: doctest coverage to 75%

2009-04-13 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 07:06:01PM -0700, William Stein wrote: Hi, WHERE DO WE STAND? Here's the Sage doctest coverage status: We need 296 more function to get to 68% coverage. We need 756 more function to get to 70% coverage. We need 1905 more function to get to 75% coverage. We