[sage-devel] Re: "What can Magma do that Sage can't do?"

2009-06-05 Thread Nick Alexander
> * Hyperelliptic curves -- Sage has nothing really for jacobian over > number fields, effective Chabauty. Sage also doesn't implement > the > analytic Jacobians package from Magma. > > PROJECT: Make the group law on hyperelliptic Jacobians very fast. Two comments: the patch at http:

[sage-devel] Re: "What can Magma do that Sage can't do?"

2009-06-05 Thread Kiran Kedlaya
William mentioned an area dear to my heart: On Jun 5, 10:47 pm, William Stein wrote: >   * Magma's linear algebra over p-adics is better than in Sage. > > PROJECT: Design and implement good algorithms for linear algebra over > p-adics (subtle and interesting research area). > There is actually s

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
I realize you are trying to keep it concise, but I have 2 suggestions for geometry and interfaces: geometry: p = polytopes.twenty_four_cell() show(p.render_wireframe(), frame = False) and interfaces (Gfan): r3. = PolynomialRing(QQ,3) vort_ideal = r3.ideal([-6*x*y*z+x*y+x*z+6*y*z-y^2-z^2, -6*x*y

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.rc0 (rc2)

2009-06-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had two failures on an intel mac running 10.4 (for rc2): sage -t "devel/sage/sage/numerical/optimize.py" sage -t "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/relation.py" The relation.py failures: sage -t "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/relation.py" *

[sage-devel] "What can Magma do that Sage can't do?"

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-Devel, This email will focus entirely on functionality present in Magma that is not available in Sage. We will almost entirely ignore questions of efficiency for this email. We follow the magma "Handbook" Version 2.15 from December 2008. http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/htmlhelp/MA

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
2009/6/5 kcrisman : > > >> due to a *major* bug in the tinyMCE integration, which anybody who has >> seriously used the SAge notebook has run into.  Nobody has come up >> with a clean test case though.  My worksheet is unfortunately >> completely scrambled, and I'll have to spend an hour sorting i

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread kcrisman
> due to a *major* bug in the tinyMCE integration, which anybody who has > seriously used the SAge notebook has run into. Nobody has come up > with a clean test case though. My worksheet is unfortunately > completely scrambled, and I'll have to spend an hour sorting it > through. Jason, since

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
2009/6/5 William Stein : > 2009/6/5 Jason Grout : >> >> simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: >>> On 6 Jun., 00:18, simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: > In the matrix Module: > "The matrix module is anothe huge module" (missing an r on "another") And note that there are two sections entitles "Matr

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
2009/6/5 Rob Beezer : > > I particularly like the suggestions for projects, which at first > blush, look like they are geared to an undergraduate audience.   I > suspect there are folks with the ability and inclination to contribute > to Sage, but they don't always have a good idea where to start.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
2009/6/5 Jason Grout : > > simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: >> On 6 Jun., 00:18, simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: In the matrix Module: "The matrix module is anothe huge module" (missing an r on "another") >>> And note that there are two sections entitles "Matrix" and two >>> sections entitled

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Jason Grout
simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: > On 6 Jun., 00:18, simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: >>> In the matrix Module: >>> "The matrix module is anothe huge module" (missing an r on "another") >> And note that there are two sections entitles "Matrix" and two >> sections entitled "Media". I guess the first vers

[sage-devel] Re: Securing Sage Notebook - MSc project

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I think your email went unanswered due to a lack of time and the relatively few people who know the notebook (compared to the rest of Sage). This is a rather open-ended question, but there are several different ways in which the notebook could be used. Here's my immediate thoughts: 1) The

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread simon . king
On 6 Jun., 00:18, simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: > > In the matrix Module: > > > "The matrix module is anothe huge module" (missing an r on "another") > > And note that there are two sections entitles "Matrix" and two > sections entitled "Media". I guess the first version of "Media" is a > mistake,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread simon . king
> In the matrix Module: > > "The matrix module is anothe huge module" (missing an r on "another") And note that there are two sections entitles "Matrix" and two sections entitled "Media". I guess the first version of "Media" is a mistake, and the two versions of "Matrix" should be merged. Cheers

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jun 5, 3:06 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > In some sense, the "State of Sage" annual address or something? Are you able to read my inner-most thoughts? ;-) Pretty much what went through my mind as I wrote that. Might also be a useful place to go when there is a need to be reminded of recent prog

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > I particularly like the suggestions for projects, which at first > blush, look like they are geared to an undergraduate audience.   I > suspect there are folks with the ability and inclination to contribute > to Sage, but they don't always have

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > I guess, it shouldn't be difficult to typeset the expression as earlier > even with the new format. We just need to parse it differently. > > Could you please give some clue on how exactly the typesetting with new > symbolics are suppo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread simon . king
Hi William, On 5 Jun., 21:26, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I've posted a new version of the "grand tour" that has all 39 sections > filled in. > > http://480.sagenb.org/home/pub/46/ There seems something wrong in the Category part: C = VectorSpaces(RR); C Category of vector spaces over Re

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Jason Grout
Rob Beezer wrote: > I particularly like the suggestions for projects, which at first > blush, look like they are geared to an undergraduate audience. I > suspect there are folks with the ability and inclination to contribute > to Sage, but they don't always have a good idea where to start. So >

[sage-devel] Can gmp-4.2.3 & mpfr-2.3.2 be moved to the T2 to build gcc ??

2009-06-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I've downloaded gcc 4.4.0 with a view to building this to try to get rid of the internal compiler bug on the T2. I looked at an install.log of one of my builds of Sage using the Solaris binaries from Micheal and see the compiler was configured with: GCC Version gcc -v Using built-in specs. Ta

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Rob Beezer
I particularly like the suggestions for projects, which at first blush, look like they are geared to an undergraduate audience. I suspect there are folks with the ability and inclination to contribute to Sage, but they don't always have a good idea where to start. So including these suggestions

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: >> IMO, it is alright if GiNaC uses this particular format for internal >> processing. >> However, printing the output (either the raw or the typeset version) in the >> new >> format ("D[0](f)") is at best confusing. > > It's not just a matter o

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr David Kirkby wrote: > > > On Jun 5, 8:48 am, Dan Drake wrote: >> Note that right now, building Sage fails on that machine with an >> internal compiler error -- the Fortran compiler fails. There's a partial >> build in /scratch/drake if you want to see an install log. >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> -

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I've posted a new version of the "grand tour" that has all 39 sections > filled in. > > http://480.sagenb.org/home/pub/46/ > In the matrix Module: "The matrix module is anothe huge module" (missing an r on "another") This is fantastic! Thanks for posting it!

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: >> >>> D[0](f) seems strange when there is only one argument. >> >> f could be a function of many variables. >> >>> I still hate the notation. It's also fairly non-stand

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi Mike, On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: > >> D[0](f) seems strange when there is only one argument. > > f could be a function of many variables. > >> I still hate the notation. It's also fairly non-standard notation. At >> least in Maple, it's mostly optional. Some functions r

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi Burcin, On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Burcin Erocal wrote: >> (3)  symbolic "diff" now returns a rather incomprehensible output >> --- >> f(x) = function('f',x) >> diff(f(x),x) >> D[0](f)(x) >> --- >> What does that '0' really means? Typeset version also looks similar. > > This is a

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > Sorry, it's slightly different than the Maple notation, which I > often forget since I don't use it. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that it's exactly the same as what's here http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/view.aspx?path=D . >

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > This is not what the notation means. D[0](f) represented the the > derivative of f with respect to the first argument. D[0,0](f) > represents taking the derivative with respect to that argument twice. > Thus, you can have expressions like > >

[sage-devel] Re: Release Management

2009-06-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Georg, > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:01 AM, gsw wrote: >> > > > >> Since (the Sage review process and) the Sage release process have been >> pretty stable for more than a year now, this should go right into a >> new chapter in the Sage Devel

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > I hate this notation in Maple, but it's pretty much optional. Plus, > while > I understand using 0-based indexing, the numbers have a particular > meaning > for derivatives, so 0 doesn't make sense for a first derivative. The 0th > derivative is

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread John Cremona
2009/6/5 Tim Lahey : > > > On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > >> >> On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: >> >>> >>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:37:07 -0300 >>> Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: >>> >>> (3)  symbolic "diff" now returns a rather incomprehensible output

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
Hi, I've posted a new version of the "grand tour" that has all 39 sections filled in. http://480.sagenb.org/home/pub/46/ William 2009/6/5 William Stein : > Hi, > > I'm writing a Sage "grand tour" worksheet with one section for each of > the 39 main modules in SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/.  For

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:37:07 -0300 >> Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: >> >>> >> >>> (3) symbolic "diff" now returns a rather incomprehensible output >>> --- >>> f(x) = function('f',x

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > > Hi Golam, > > On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:37:07 -0300 > Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It seems, recent switch to new symbolics has caused several >> typesetting regressions in sage-4.0 (compared 3.4.*). > > Some of these are mentioned

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread Tom Boothby
Sourav recently experienced this same problem on sage.math -- I figured it was because the sage build failed, but now I'm thinking that a bug may have been introduced when dsage was moved into a spkg. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM, William Stein wrote: > > 2009/6/5 Dr David Kirkby : >> >> >> >>

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
2009/6/5 Dr David Kirkby : > > > > On Jun 5, 8:48 am, Dan Drake wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 5 2009 12:37 am, William Stein wrote: >> > Have you got an account on t2.math.washington.edu yet?  If so, it >> > would be *extremely* useful if you could build Sage there (I haven't >> > yet!), since then I cou

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread Dr David Kirkby
On Jun 5, 8:48 am, Dan Drake wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5 2009 12:37 am, William Stein wrote: > > Have you got an account on t2.math.washington.edu yet?  If so, it > > would be *extremely* useful if you could build Sage there (I haven't > > yet!), since then I could directly debug this notebook probl

[sage-devel] Re: LU decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread Jason Grout
Bill Page wrote: > Jason, > > Perhaps this Axiom code might be of some use? The generic coding style > is rather similar to the way Python is used in Sage. > > http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/JetLUDecomposition Thanks! Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~-~--~~~--

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
2009/6/5 Robert Bradshaw : > > On Jun 5, 2009, at 2:15 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm writing a Sage "grand tour" worksheet with one section for each of >> the 39 main modules in SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/.  For each, there is >> a quick summary of what it is about and where it com

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jun 5, 8:39 am, Burcin Erocal wrote: > > (4) Spurious latex code(?): > > > When I keep "Typeset" checkbox checked and I click on the > > output then I get some spurious latex code > > "\newcommand{\Bold}[1]{\mathbf{#1}}" for every output. This is not > > present in 3.4 - > > var('mu') > >

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.rc0 (rc2)

2009-06-05 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > 2009/6/4 Mike Hansen : >> Hello, >> >> Now that sage.math is back up, I've cut rc0 and put it in >> /home/mhansen/sage-4.0.1.rc0.tar. All tests passed on sage.math. >> sage-4.0.1.rc2 built fine and all tests passed on Fedora 9 and 10, 32 bit. Jaap --~--~-~--~--

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Burcin Erocal
Hi Golam, On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:37:07 -0300 Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > Hi, > > It seems, recent switch to new symbolics has caused several > typesetting regressions in sage-4.0 (compared 3.4.*). Some of these are mentioned here: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6211 It would b

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread rjf
I noticed "Here's a benchmark where we see that Pynac is much faster than ECL- based Maxima at a simple task. Maxima-based symbolics were even slower, because before 4.0 they used clisp (so 5 times slower), and the benchmark below doesn't count parsing output, which Maxima-based symbolics did."

[sage-devel] Re: LU decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Page
Jason, Perhaps this Axiom code might be of some use? The generic coding style is rather similar to the way Python is used in Sage. http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/JetLUDecomposition Regards, Bill Page. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > If I were to attempt to add LU d

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.rc0

2009-06-05 Thread Kiran Kedlaya
On 64-bit Fedora 10, I see the same html failure as previous reported, and no other failures. Kiran On Jun 5, 1:24 am, "Justin C. Walker" wrote: > On Jun 4, 2009, at 13:18 , William Stein wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Kiran Kedlaya   > > wrote: > [snip] > > There's now a

[sage-devel] Re: Securing Sage Notebook - MSc project

2009-06-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Yoav Aner wrote: > Hello all, > > This is my first post. My name is Yoav, and I'm studying for an > Information Security MSc at Royal Holloway, University of London. I'm > starting to work on a project proposed by Martin Albrecht, to look at > several security aspects of the Sage Notebook server.

[sage-devel] Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi, It seems, recent switch to new symbolics has caused several typesetting regressions in sage-4.0 (compared 3.4.*). Here are the list of regressions which I have encountered so far. (1) Typesetting of sec(x), csc(x), cot(x) are broken. It puts an extra "\mbox" around them unlike for sin, co

[sage-devel] Re: Securing Sage Notebook - MSc project

2009-06-05 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi Yoav, you didn't offend anyone or anything like that. I guess everybody is just very busy right now and thus your mail remained unanswered. > Could anybody please suggest what's the best way to work out (map) the > software architecture of sage in terms of: > > Software components/objects >

[sage-devel] Re: Securing Sage Notebook - MSc project

2009-06-05 Thread Yoav Aner
I'm still rather lost to be honest and in need of some guidance. Could anybody please suggest what's the best way to work out (map) the software architecture of sage in terms of: Software components/objects Interfaces (User interfaces, functional specifications, object relationship/hierarchy) Da

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Harald Schilly
before i forget, while looking at the database section, http://www.pytables.org/ comes to my mind and there is no trac ticket for it. Maybe we should include it? besides that i'll write you some lines about numerical optimization. h --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post t

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi William, On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm writing a Sage "grand tour" worksheet with one section for each of > the 39 main modules in SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/. For each, there is > a quick summary of what it is about and where it comes from, then a > shor

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 5, 2009, at 2:15 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm writing a Sage "grand tour" worksheet with one section for each of > the 39 main modules in SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/. For each, there is > a quick summary of what it is about and where it comes from, then a > short discussion fo

[sage-devel] Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
Hi, I'm writing a Sage "grand tour" worksheet with one section for each of the 39 main modules in SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/. For each, there is a quick summary of what it is about and where it comes from, then a short discussion fo where it is going next, followed by a couple of examples. You

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
2009/6/5 Dr. David Kirkby : > > Dan Drake wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 5 2009 12:37 am, William Stein wrote: >>> Have you got an account on t2.math.washington.edu yet?  If so, it >>> would be *extremely* useful if you could build Sage there (I haven't >>> yet!), since then I could directly debug this not

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Dan Drake wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 5 2009 12:37 am, William Stein wrote: >>> Have you got an account on t2.math.washington.edu yet? If so, it >>> would be *extremely* useful if you could build Sage there (I haven't >>> yet!), since then I coul

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dan Drake wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5 2009 12:37 am, William Stein wrote: >> Have you got an account on t2.math.washington.edu yet? If so, it >> would be *extremely* useful if you could build Sage there (I haven't >> yet!), since then I could directly debug this notebook problem. > > Note that right

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Dan Drake wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5 2009 12:37 am, William Stein wrote: >> Have you got an account on t2.math.washington.edu yet?  If so, it >> would be *extremely* useful if you could build Sage there (I haven't >> yet!), since then I could directly debug this noteb

[sage-devel] Re: Failure generating keys for secure notebook on Solaris

2009-06-05 Thread Dan Drake
On Fri, Jun 5 2009 12:37 am, William Stein wrote: > Have you got an account on t2.math.washington.edu yet? If so, it > would be *extremely* useful if you could build Sage there (I haven't > yet!), since then I could directly debug this notebook problem. Note that right now, building Sage fails on