[sage-devel] Re: English version of the book "Calcul Mathematique avec Sage"

2011-01-02 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jan 2, 10:11 pm, Eviatar wrote: > Sorry for bumping, but is there any news on this? I would be willing > to assist with the translation aspects. Don't say sorry! Thanks for the bump, as I had totally missed about half this thread, since I was doing some other things about the time of most of

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [WR #2158917] Could you please clarify terms of use for WolframAlpha

2011-01-02 Thread Eviatar
I'd like to point out that using Wolfram|Alpha is also advantageous because an answer can be verified much faster than with Mathematica. As well, Wolfram|Alpha should be the same for all testers at any given time, while Mathematica versions may be different. -- To post to this group, send an emai

[sage-devel] Re: English version of the book "Calcul Mathematique avec Sage"

2011-01-02 Thread Eviatar
Sorry for bumping, but is there any news on this? I would be willing to assist with the translation aspects. On Nov 4 2010, 1:23 pm, "Nicolas M. Thiery" wrote: >         Dear John, dear all, > > > >> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:51:27 +0100 > > >> From: John Cremona > > >> With a few (preferably na

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [WR #2158917] Could you please clarify terms of use for WolframAlpha

2011-01-02 Thread Timothy Clemans
This is not sage-flame On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 01/ 2/11 08:34 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Dr. David Kirkby >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 01/ 2/11 04:31 PM, rjf wrote: > Though it does surprise me that they bothered to respond.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [WR #2158917] Could you please clarify terms of use for WolframAlpha

2011-01-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 01/ 2/11 08:34 PM, William Stein wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 01/ 2/11 04:31 PM, rjf wrote: Though it does surprise me that they bothered to respond. They are in general more polite& constructive than you. And more professional. Yes, I agree w

[sage-devel] Re: new numerical developments in Sage ?

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Swierczewski
tdumont, > I am supposed to speak about numerics in Sage. I'll speak about what > exists nowadays, but I would like to know if there are currently > projects, developments (if any), in this field of Numerical methods. > Sage includes the Numpy and Scipy packages, both of which perform numeric

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [WR #2158917] Could you please clarify terms of use for WolframAlpha

2011-01-02 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 01/ 2/11 04:31 PM, rjf wrote: >>   You only have to deal with Univ. Washington or some place that >> installed Mathematica. > > You need to have access to Mathematica, which is not the same thing as your > university having it installed

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [WR #2158917] Could you please clarify terms of use for WolframAlpha

2011-01-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 01/ 2/11 04:31 PM, rjf wrote: Wolfram has given you permission to do what they already gave you permission to do. I would tend to agree, but then there are are some words in the terms and conditions would could be interpreted as now allowing this use. Personally I tended to agree, but Ale

[sage-devel] Re: Modular instead of monolithic

2011-01-02 Thread Cedric
Thanks to everyone. Thanks Robert for taking the time to explain it all - you have put it very clearly! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this gro

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [WR #2158917] Could you please clarify terms of use for WolframAlpha

2011-01-02 Thread rjf
Wolfram has given you permission to do what they already gave you permission to do. You can type in an expression (either directly to W|A or via a link) and look at the answer. They can't stop you if you compare it to the answer from Sage. You could use it in debugging some Sage code, perhaps. Y

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [WR #2158917] Could you please clarify terms of use for WolframAlpha

2011-01-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 01/ 2/11 05:45 AM, Timothy Clemans wrote: Wow that's nice of them. I'm amazed they replied let alone grant you permission. Actually, I've dealt with Wolfram Research a number of times over the years, and always found them helpful. That has included Wolfram Research staff answering question

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [WR #2158917] Could you please clarify terms of use for WolframAlpha

2011-01-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 01/ 2/11 06:24 AM, William Stein wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: You may recall some discussions some time ago about using WolframAlpha to make comparisons with Sage results. Alex Ghitza in particular thought we might be breaking the terms of the usage. I aske

Re: [sage-devel] Cleaning up extcode

2011-01-02 Thread John Cremona
As far as the mwrank directory is concerned, it could easily be got rid of. mwrank (and eclib generally) has a habit of writing to a file called PRIMES so as to keep large and/or interesting primes from one run to the next. I could easily recode eclib so that it never creates a file, only uses on