[sage-devel] Re: bugfix for scons 1.2.0

2011-06-22 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, Someone sent the message below to me off-list. Regards Minh Van Nguyen Dear all I hit an error when building sage 4.7.0 on mac os x server 10.6.7 (on a mac= mini, running in 64-bit kernel mode). I tried to build the package in a su= bfolder of /Library. This specific location trigg

[sage-devel] Re: New version of Sage virtual machine

2011-06-22 Thread Volker Braun
I thought about it and there is some hacked version floating around that does this. But there are the following downsides: * Any virtualization software needs superuser rights to install * It would always conflict with a preexisting VirtualBox install Really, you should install VirtualBox as

[sage-devel] Re: New version of Sage virtual machine

2011-06-22 Thread mmarco
¿WOuld it be possible to modify slightly the virtualbox code to make it run directly this virtual machine (without asking which one to run and so on)? This would really be something very close to a one-click install for windows. On 22 jun, 12:24, Volker Braun wrote: > I've updated my Sage virtual

[sage-devel] Re: Factoring a polynomial over a finite field depends on name of generator

2011-06-22 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jun 21, 11:19 pm, Simon King wrote: > Sorry for doubling the work. No problem, your patch has double the speed. Details on the ticket. Rob -- 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...@googleg

[sage-devel] Re: Eigen-stuff in Sage

2011-06-22 Thread Rob Beezer
Thanks, Dima, John, mmarco and Jason, for the very helpful comments. Dima - had not thought about using QQbar! That pretty much gives the output I would like to have as the default, other than the reference to the "Algebraic Field" in the output. John sees my dilemma exactly. The less I have to

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] NSF grant

2011-06-22 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/22/11 11:50 AM, Florent Hivert wrote: 3. Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2): S2I2 awards will focus on the establishment of long-term hubs of excellence in software infrastructure and technologies, which will serve a research community of substantial size and disciplinary bread

[sage-devel] Re: Integrating GraphLab with Sage

2011-06-22 Thread jason-sage
On 6/22/11 3:27 AM, rostam wrote: I am a main developer of GraphLab. We found out finally these different approaches for integration after discussion. 1. The simplest one is to run a GraphLab instance on the user PC, when he/she type some command like edit_with_graphlab. 2. To make an applet ver

[sage-devel] Fwd: pari-2.5.0 (STABLE) released !

2011-06-22 Thread John Cremona
Happy Christmas everybody. As it's now the anniversary of the start of the move to having pari 2.4.* in Sage, perhaps it's about time it actually happened? (Or maybe it did, I forget...) John -- Forwarded message -- From: Karim Belabas Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:54 PM Subjec

[sage-devel] Re: Eigen-stuff in Sage

2011-06-22 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/21/11 3:59 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: 1. Eigenspaces sage: A = matrix(QQ, [[0,-1,0,0],[1,0,0,0],[0,0,0,-1],[0,0,1,0]]) sage: A.eigenspaces_right() [ (a0, Vector space of degree 4 and dimension 2 over Number Field in a0 with defining polynomial x^2 + 1 User basis matrix: [ 1 -a0 0 0] [ 0

[sage-devel] Re: Eigen-stuff in Sage

2011-06-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:37:11 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Jun 21, 9:59 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > > I think I have one more big push left in me as I try to tidy up linear > > algebra in Sage to make it even more useful for students studying the > > subject for the first time

[sage-devel] Re: Eigen-stuff in Sage

2011-06-22 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Jun 21, 9:59 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > I think I have one more big push left in me as I try to tidy up linear > algebra in Sage to make it even more useful for students studying the > subject for the first time.  Eigen-stuff is on my radar.  Some > behaviors that I find problematic, most vexing

[sage-devel] New version of Sage virtual machine

2011-06-22 Thread Volker Braun
I've updated my Sage virtual machine image. Now its as easy as it can be with a virtual machine: In VirtualBox, just go to File->Import Appliance, start it up, and point your web browser at http://localhost:8000 http://www.stp.dias.ie/~vbraun/Sage/sage-4.7.ova md5sum: 3eadcc287c92c5391417b517e0

[sage-devel] Re: Eigen-stuff in Sage

2011-06-22 Thread mmarco
I faced that kind of decissions when i implemented the eigen-stuff for endomorphisms (see ticket 8974). My opinion was to stick to the base field, and only look for extensions when directly requested. David Loefler argued that, for consistency reasons, it would be preferable to continue with the s