[sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-30 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/30/10 5:13 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: On Dec 30, 10:46 am, Jason Grout wrote: I was thinking of another matrix constructor that is a very thin wrapper around matrix(). Something like: def column_matrix(*args, **kwds): return matrix(*args, **kwds).transpose() I like it. See http://tr

[sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-30 Thread Rob Beezer
On Dec 30, 1:01 am, Dan Drake wrote: > There are a number of "basic moves" in linear algebra that you do all > the time when describing algorithms, doing proofs, and so on. The better > Sage supports those basic moves, the easier it will be to experiment > with basic linear algebra stuff. That's

[sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-30 Thread Rob Beezer
On Dec 30, 10:46 am, Jason Grout wrote: > I was thinking of another matrix constructor that is a very thin wrapper > around matrix().  Something like: > > def column_matrix(*args, **kwds): >      return matrix(*args, **kwds).transpose() I like it. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10

Re: [sage-devel] Re: patchbot+nagbot

2010-12-30 Thread Marco Streng
Op 30-12-2010 22:16, Robert Bradshaw schreef: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:04 PM, daveloeffler wrote: On Dec 30, 1:41 pm, Robert Bradshaw wrote: And otherwise it does a "best guess" kind of approach, which is decent (especially if there is only one patch :). In any case, I don't think people wou

[sage-devel] Re: error compiling gnutls on suse 11.3

2010-12-30 Thread pang
Apparently those packages were installed, but not on the most current version: upgrading solved the problem. Thanks On 29 dic, 14:00, Volker Braun wrote: > Install your distribution's lzo and lzo-devel packages. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscr

Re: [sage-devel] Re: patchbot+nagbot

2010-12-30 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:04 PM, daveloeffler wrote: > On Dec 30, 1:41 pm, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> >> And otherwise it does a "best guess" kind of approach, which is decent >> (especially if there is only one patch :). In any case, I don't think >> people would mind getting a "nag" that the p

[sage-devel] Re: patchbot+nagbot

2010-12-30 Thread daveloeffler
On Dec 30, 1:41 pm, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > And otherwise it does a "best guess" kind of approach, which is decent > (especially if there is only one patch :). In any case, I don't think > people would mind getting a "nag" that the patchbot got confused, > indicating that it might be worth your

[sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-30 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/30/10 1:22 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: On Dec 29, 10:31 pm, Jason Grout wrote: Notice that there is an underlying ideology that vectors are rows: Yes, I have noticed that. Ties go to rows: sage: matrix( [vector(QQ, [1,2,3]), vector(QQ,[4,5,6])] ) [1 2 3] [4 5 6] But the above is the first

Re: [sage-devel] Re: patchbot+nagbot

2010-12-30 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Simon King wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On 30 Dez., 10:21, daveloeffler wrote: >> I can see a slight problem with this. At present there's no mechanism >> to explain to the patchbot exactly which patches to apply. So if you >> have (say) a ticket with a patch that requir

[sage-devel] Re: Linear Algebra over CDF

2010-12-30 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Dec 30, 1:50 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > I'd like to improve the current state of the linear algebra code over > CDF (and by extension, over RDF).  The purpose would be to make Sage > more usable for teaching various topics involving matrices with > complex entries and orthogonal vectors (thus in

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] Scalable Sage Server Architecture Proposal v0.1

2010-12-30 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 13:24, Alex Leone wrote: > Comments?  It would be good to discuss this before the upcoming bug days if > we are going to do anything with the notebook. Hi, I read most of it and I also read your posting on mongodb-users ;) Basically, most of it is also what I would have i

[sage-devel] Re: patchbot+nagbot

2010-12-30 Thread daveloeffler
On Dec 30, 10:01 am, Simon King wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On 30 Dez., 10:21, daveloeffler wrote: > > > I can see a slight problem with this. At present there's no mechanism > > to explain to the patchbot exactly which patches to apply. So if you > > have (say) a ticket with a patch that requires a

[sage-devel] Re: patchbot+nagbot

2010-12-30 Thread Simon King
Hi Dave, On 30 Dez., 10:21, daveloeffler wrote: > I can see a slight problem with this. At present there's no mechanism > to explain to the patchbot exactly which patches to apply. So if you > have (say) a ticket with a patch that requires a patch from an earlier > ticket to be applied, or if you

[sage-devel] Re: patchbot+nagbot

2010-12-30 Thread daveloeffler
On Dec 29, 6:52 pm, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Simon King wrote: > > Hi! > > > I just noticed that my patch from #10296 (ready for review, improving > > the communication with singular via pexpect) had bit rotted. > > > Of course, the patchbot knew  that the old p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-30 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 at 12:22AM -0800, Rob Beezer wrote: > Excepting the above - I want to build matrices out of sets of vectors > where the vectors become columns (as optional behavior). Big thumbs up to being able to easily make matrices whose columns are specified vectors. This past semester,

[sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-30 Thread Rob Beezer
On Dec 29, 10:31 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > Notice that there is an underlying ideology that vectors are rows: Yes, I have noticed that. Ties go to rows: sage: matrix( [vector(QQ, [1,2,3]), vector(QQ,[4,5,6])] ) [1 2 3] [4 5 6] But the above is the first example where I have been tempted to sugg