[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Kelvin Li
On May 14, 2:07 pm, Volker Braun wrote: > The virtual machine is really only useful on modern hardware with at > least 4GB ram and hardware virtualization support (Intel VT-x or AMD-V). My personal experience differs. I have run windows VMware guests with 512 MB of memory on top of old hardware (

[sage-devel] solve an algebraic expression

2011-05-14 Thread Dox
Hi again list, This time I come with a problem of solving an algebraic expression, the solution has the variable x on it! sage: reset() sage: var('x') sage: var('mp', latex_name=r"m_\pi") sage: var('me', latex_name=r"m_e") sage: f(x) = mp - sqrt(x^2 + me^2) - x sage: solve(f(x)==0, x) [x == mp -

[sage-devel] Integration of dirac_delta

2011-05-14 Thread Dox
Hi group! I was trying to integrate a dirac_delta, but SAGE cannot do so... weird thing, 'cause that `function' is defined, and in only make sense as part of an integration. Cheers. Dox. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, se

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
On May 14, 3:07 pm, Volker Braun wrote: > I don't think that running a virtual machine on yesteryear's hardware is a > viable option. Yes you can make it boot but it'll be too slow for productive > use. The virtual machine is really only useful on modern hardware with at > least 4GB ram and hardwa

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Volker Braun
I don't think that running a virtual machine on yesteryear's hardware is a viable option. Yes you can make it boot but it'll be too slow for productive use. The virtual machine is really only useful on modern hardware with at least 4GB ram and hardware virtualization support (Intel VT-x or AMD-V

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Volker Braun
The OVA file format is just a tar archive of a 2-file OVF format. VMware might need you to place the contained files in the same directory. [vbraun@volker-desktop data]$ tar tf Sage-4.7.rc2.ova Sage-4.7.rc2.ovf Sage-4.7.rc2-disk1.vmdk The VM is always going to be painful to download with your

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
I have tried to run it on my "desktop notebook": Athlon 64 3000 (1.8GHz, 1 core), 2 Gb RAM (maximum possible), Windows XP Professional 32-bit. I was pretty sure it will not run given the guest memory size, but I got the following, which does not refer to memory: Failed to open a se

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Kelvin Li
> > > probably VMWare requires a slightly different directory layout: > > > http://gvaro.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/vmware-player-error-“failed-to-open- > > > virtual-machine-failed-to-query-source-for-information-”/ > > > > > > (don't know if Bing (ahem...) can find this link though :-)) That was o

[sage-devel] Re: LaTeX code to Sage expression?

2011-05-14 Thread rjf
It is possible to define a a program that will take a single language and produce from it either TeX, Lisp, Sage, Mathematica, Maple, Maxima, MathML, etc. That does not solve the problem of taking some random TeX formula, not using that language of macros etc, and converting it into a CAS formula.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Emil Widmann
> Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't tried to make a hand-crafted > absolutely minimal Linux install because that would be a hassle to maintain. Having a automated script to produce virtual machine images is a huge step in the right direction. Personally I think size (1.4 GB) could be optimize

Re: [sage-devel] Re: LaTeX code to Sage expression?

2011-05-14 Thread daly
Since TeX is turing complete and allows macros, would it be possible to create a set of macros that are not ambiguous? For instance, an integral macro that specifies the limits and differential variable? \integrate{0}{\infty}{r}{sin(\theta)} In this case it seems to me that the latex macros would

Re: [sage-devel] Re: LaTeX code to Sage expression?

2011-05-14 Thread Bruno Le Floch
> http://moralfiber.org/eylon/berkeley/cs282/ Thank you, this was an interesting read, which motivates me to revise my current approach slightly. I think that I need to keep more information in a first pass, in order to correctly handle subscripts and superscripts. I still don't know how to place

[sage-devel] Re: LaTeX code to Sage expression?

2011-05-14 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/14/11 10:25 AM, rjf wrote: Look at http://moralfiber.org/eylon/berkeley/cs282/ to see a paper, Parsing Mathematics Typeset in TeX that successfully parsed many many formulas from Gradshteyn and Rhyzik, a table of integrals. The result was Lisp, which presumably could be Maxima. If you have

[sage-devel] Re: aut codes patch

2011-05-14 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On May 13, 7:18 pm, Thomas Feulner wrote: > Hi, > > On 7 Mai, 07:04, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > > > > On May 6, 9:12 pm, David Joyner wrote: > > > > Hi: > > > > The contribution at #10153 byThomasFeulneris huge and, > > > IMHO, important. It basically generalizes what Robert Miller did for

[sage-devel] Re: LaTeX code to Sage expression?

2011-05-14 Thread rjf
Look at http://moralfiber.org/eylon/berkeley/cs282/ to see a paper, Parsing Mathematics Typeset in TeX that successfully parsed many many formulas from Gradshteyn and Rhyzik, a table of integrals. The result was Lisp, which presumably could be Maxima. If you have a result in Maxima, presumably Sa

[sage-devel] Re: LaTeX code to Sage expression?

2011-05-14 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/14/11 7:57 AM, Bruno Le Floch wrote: Should we contact David Cervone on this? I emailed Davide and sent him the link to this thread the other day. There may be more developments from when he may have looked at it, though. Thanks, Jason -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-

Re: [sage-devel] Re: LaTeX code to Sage expression?

2011-05-14 Thread Bruno Le Floch
@Mike: I couldn't find precise info about the cadabra TeX input, but I found odd things: "x^{2x+1}" is interpreted as "x^{2+x+1}". I may be misunderstanding something, though. @Dan: I just had to add the rule ")(" => ")*(" that I had forgotten yesterday, and here is what I get: (((x-1)*(x**(4)*(1

[sage-devel] Re: Maple 15 out

2011-05-14 Thread parisse
> So that issue still exists in Maple 15, however it is generally much better > because memory is recycled.   As far as I understand on my side, the problem with parallelization is that malloc locks threads, therefore I can only parallelize code that does not allocate memory. That's why I can not

[sage-devel] Re: Maple 15 out

2011-05-14 Thread Roman Pearce
I was surprised to still see a bit of this in practice on an 8x Core2 system with the example from our paper: f := (1 + x + y + 2*z^2 + 3*t^3 + 5*u^5)^12: g := (1 + u + t + 2*z^2 + 3*y^3 + 5*x^5)^12: What happens here is that we construct the result one term at a time, and doing that requires a

[sage-devel] Re: bug with direct product of permutation groups

2011-05-14 Thread Rob Beezer
You probably do not have an alpha version. It would have printed in what you did above. On May 13, 11:59 pm, Pierre wrote: > sage --version gives > > Sage Version 4.6.2, Release Date: 2011-02-25 > > how do I find out about the "alpha"? > > On 13 mai, 19:34, Rob Beezer wrote: > > > I do not have

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Volker Braun
Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't tried to make a hand-crafted absolutely minimal Linux install because that would be a hassle to maintain. I'm only installing the Fedora "Core" packages with a handful of extra stuff (fortran, for example). That way upgrading the Guest OS should just work as

Re: [sage-devel] sage-4.7 release schedule

2011-05-14 Thread Julien PUYDT
Le 12/05/2011 17:13, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : At this point nothing is blocking the sage-4.7 release any more. So it would be nice if everybody could try to build and test Sage, to see whether there are any remaining issues. If not, I will release sage-4.7 in about a week or so. sage-4.7rc2 s

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Dima Pasechnik
probably VMWare requires a slightly different directory layout: http://gvaro.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/vmware-player-error-“failed-to-open-virtual-machine-failed-to-query-source-for-information-”/ (don't know if Bing (ahem...) can find this link though :-)) On May 14, 3:07 pm, Kelvin Li wrote: >

[sage-devel] Re: Sage virtual appliance (VirtualBox)

2011-05-14 Thread Kelvin Li
On May 13, 8:15 am, Volker Braun wrote: > I wrote a script to create a virtual machine with Sage and export it as an > OVA appliance. I'm using VirtualBox but I think VMware should support it, > too. At this point it would be useful if people could try it out on a > variety of host machines. Func