[sage-devel] Photomath

2014-10-23 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Photomath is a camera app that can solve math equations. Watching the video on this page http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/23/disrupt-london-finalist-photomath-rockets-to-the-top-of-the-app-store made me wonder about the kind of problems/equations (Sage+Photo)math might be able to solve. Y

[sage-devel] Scott Aaronson on research

2013-12-16 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Here is an interesting interview of Scott Aaronson on philosophy, science, math and research. The interview ends with the following excerpt which caught my eye. Regards, Ifti http://intelligence.org/2013/12/13/aaronson/ Q: Which object-level thinking tactics, at roughly this level o

[sage-devel] Wolfram Alpha Launches Problem Generator To Help Students Learn Math

2013-10-20 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, I thought the following might interest some of you. http://www.wolframalpha.com/problem-generator/ "Right now, the Generator covers six subjects: arithmetic, number theory, algebra, calculus, linear algebra and statistics." http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/18/wolfram-alpha-launches-probl

Re: [sage-devel] Problems with "full output"

2012-10-08 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
I have experienced this on sagenb.org. Regards, Ifti On Oct 8, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Dox wrote: > Dear community: > > I was doing some simple linear algebra calculations, and since the output was > a long list, Sage gave me a few lines with the option of looking at the > full_output.txt file. >

[sage-devel] Preschoolers Education

2012-02-27 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, I found the Scratch project to be extremely interesting. http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://m.good.is/post/should-3-year-olds-learn-computer-programming/ If this adds value to Sage's mis-/vi-sion is a different question. Regards, Ifti -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-deve

[sage-devel] Selective downloading of standard Sage components

2012-02-27 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, A few weeks ago, I was asked if *all* (standard) components in the sage "bundle" http://sagemath.org/download-packages.html http://sagemath.org/links-components.html have to be downloaded, even if some of the components already exist on the target machine. My answer to this question wa

Re: [sage-devel] Sage + Hadoop

2012-02-21 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
+1 On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:52 AM, akm wrote: > Dear Group, > > I’m in the ‘big data’ practice at Accenture and am also a big fan of > Sagemath, using it almost daily.  I’ve recently started wondering what > interest you and the community would have in integrating Sagemath a > bit with Hadoop or

[sage-devel] Sage and Art

2012-02-18 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Is there any initiative into incorporating tools to create (Mathematical) art using Sage (notebook?), perhaps on the lines of http://www.sumopaint.com? Regards, Ifti -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email t

[sage-devel] wiki.sagemath.org down?

2012-02-10 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Is http://wiki.sagemath.org down? I. -- 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 group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: ht

Re: [sage-devel] sage-1.0 was released just over 6 years ago

2012-02-08 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:09 PM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Sage 1.0 was released for Sage Days 6, which was almost exactly 6 years ago: > >        http://sagemath.org/old/days1/ I believe you meant to write 'Sage Days 1', which brings back fond memories. I. > -- > William Stein > Professor

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage apps on smart devices

2012-02-02 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > At > 80 slides (not counting overlays) this better be a week-long lecture > series. Your slides look good, but there is an awful lot of stuff. Legerdemain. Regards, Ifti -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.co

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage apps on smart devices

2012-02-02 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Thanks. Slides for my forthcoming talk are available here. http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/burhanud/IITH-2012/talk.pdf Sage related slides are numbered 71-82. Feedback will be appreciated. Regards, Ifti On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:02 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > On Feb 2, 3:09 am,

[sage-devel] Sage apps on smart devices

2012-02-02 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, I will be giving at least 1 talk in India in the coming weeks in which I will showcase Sage, in particular, Sage apps on smart devices. What is the status of the above? (I could not find this info on http://wiki.sagemath.org/.) Regards, Ifti -- To post to this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Naming runs of Sage

2012-01-30 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, When I execute a Sage script using the 'nohup' command [1], for instance nohup sage test.sage > out.txt & the process is listed in the 'top' command display as 'python'. How do I give user-generated names to this 'python' process for the purpose of identification? Regards, Ifti [1] h

Re: [sage-devel] iOS app is for sale

2012-01-30 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > Hi, Ifti, > On Jan 30, 2012, at 21:36 , Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin > [snip]

Re: [sage-devel] iOS app is for sale

2012-01-30 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin > wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:21 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 30, 2012 8:17 PM, "William Stein" wrote: >>>&

Re: [sage-devel] iOS app is for sale

2012-01-30 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:21 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Jan 30, 2012 8:17 PM, "William Stein" wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Jan 30, 2012 5:27 PM, "David Joyner" w

Re: [sage-devel] iOS app is for sale

2012-01-30 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:21 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2012 8:17 PM, "William Stein" wrote: >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2012 5:27 PM, "David Joyner" wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Ivan Andrus >> > wrote: >> > > On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:45 PM, David Joyner wrote: >> > >> O

[sage-devel] How to verify this computation using Sage?

2012-01-26 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/16530098836/mind-melter-of-the-day-it-turns-out-that-if-you -- 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 group at h

[sage-devel] descent_second_limit parameter in E.gens

2012-01-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Let E be an elliptic curve over QQ in Sage. What is the descent_second_limit parameter in the E.gens method? The doc string states the following. ``descent_second_limit`` - (default: 12)- used in 2-descent IMPLEMENTATION: Uses Cremona's mwrank C library. Regards, Ifti -- To post to

[sage-devel] Sage on iPhone 4?

2012-01-17 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Accessing Sage via sagenb.org is an option. How else can I use Sage on an iPhone 4? Regards, Ifti -- 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 th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Request for Sage slides

2011-11-02 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
wrote: Hi! In a totally different thread (the one about the sage-shell prompt), Iftikhar Burhanuddin asked the question that I have copy-and-pasted below. Iftikhar: Please do not use an existing thread for a new question, but open a new thread instead. Best regards, Simon Here is the question

[sage-devel] Request for Sage slides / content

2011-10-31 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, I have been out of the Sage loop. I would like \leq 3 slides / content on what Sage currently has to offer in general. I will be delivering the Math colloquium at Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India on 11/10/11. (The title of the talk is Brauer-Siegel Analogue for E

Re: [sage-devel] RuntimeError on Exponentiation

2010-12-05 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
get a more explicit error message than you reported: RuntimeError: exponent must be at most 2147483647 which answers your question. Note that this number is 2^31-1, and that 10^10 is larger than that by a factor of about 4.6. John On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote

[sage-devel] RuntimeError on Exponentiation

2010-12-05 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Please explain the reason for the error. Is the number too big? If so what is the range of integer computability? Regards, Ifti sage: E = 2^(10^10) --- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call l

[sage-devel] SupersingularModule objects created and pickled with sage-2.x.x does not load

2010-10-12 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
I created and pickled SupersingularModule objects [1] using a sage version from Feb 2007 era. The current version of sage fails to load these objects on mod.math.washington.edu. Kindly explain how the situation can be resolved. Regards, Ifti [1] http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/modu

Re: [sage-devel] The trouble with sage-1.8, 1.9, 2.0

2010-10-08 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
/burhanud Regards, Ifti On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: Why do the sage versions 1.8, 1.9, 2.0 do not startup in a clean and identical fashion (see below) on mod.math.washington.edu? The install.log can be found here http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/burhanud Regards, Ifti

[sage-devel] The trouble with sage-1.8, 1.9, 2.0

2010-10-08 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Why do the sage versions 1.8, 1.9, 2.0 do not startup in a clean and identical fashion (see below) on mod.math.washington.edu? The install.log can be found here http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/burhanud Regards, Ifti burha...@mod:~/sage-1.8$ ./sage

[sage-devel] SD7 pics / teaching discussion audio

2008-02-13 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, The following page has been linked to my SD7 pics: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days7/schedule/. The wikipage for the "coding sprint" titled "How close to ready is sage for teaching undergrad/grad combinatorial courses" now has a link to the audio from that discussion:How close to rea

[sage-devel] Re: Sage demo code

2008-01-19 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, William Stein wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008 7:09 AM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'll be giving a talk at Caltech's number theory seminar > > > > http://www.its.caltech.edu/~wamba

[sage-devel] Sage demo code

2008-01-16 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, I'll be giving a talk at Caltech's number theory seminar http://www.its.caltech.edu/~wambach/ntseminar.html tomorrow afternoon and I plan to do a short pitch on Sage. Can someone point me to Sage demo code which showcases Sage functionality via the notebook with regards to number t

[sage-devel] Pics from my AMS meeting drive-by

2008-01-11 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, My pics from the annual AMS meeting in San Diego (1/8/8) are available here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/burhanud/ams08/ Regards, Ifti --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-devel] Re: tgdaily: "It is for this reason I don't really see much validity in Stein's first point."

2007-12-09 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, William Stein wrote: > The top article at TG Daily (whatever that is) is about Sage: > >http://www.tgdaily.com/ > > The link to the article: > > http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35187/113/ Author's opinion: "First and foremost, they are closed source

[sage-devel] Re: more SAGE publicity :-)

2007-12-07 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Yi Qiang wrote: > http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/12/math-geek-softw.html > > "A movement is afoot among some mathematicians in academia to make the > switch from expensive, closed-source calculation software to free, > open-source alternatives." Pretty cool. There sh

[sage-devel] Re: segfault from coercion with matrices over GF(p) and ints

2007-12-02 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, William Stein wrote: > On Dec 2, 2007 5:42 PM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Under the current coercion model would a coercion exception (of type > > 'exceptions.TypeError') be raised,

[sage-devel] Re: segfault from coercion with matrices over GF(p) and ints

2007-12-02 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Under the current coercion model would a coercion exception (of type 'exceptions.TypeError') be raised, given that a python int and not a ZZ integer is being coerced to an element of M_2(GF(7)), instead of the computation going through? Regards, Ifti On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Craig Citro wr

[sage-devel] Re: Pairing

2007-11-21 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Nov 21, 2007, at 8:22 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2007 8:17 AM, Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, I needed some calculation period benchmark for pairings. I could > >> not find anything build in, but the following implemen

[sage-devel] Re: ModularSymbols(GammaH)

2007-11-20 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, William Stein wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 9:52 AM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: > > Sage raises an exception when computing ModularSymbols for the congruence > > subgroup Gamma_H(N) of weight 2. Is this a bug? > > Yes. Report it on trac. This will actual

[sage-devel] ModularSymbols(GammaH)

2007-11-20 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Gamma_H(N) are SL_2(Z) matrices where the lower left entry is congruent to 0 mod N, and the upper left and lower right entries are elements of a specified subgroup H of (Z/N)^*. Sage raises an exception when computing ModularSymbols for the congruence subgroup Gamma_H(N) of weight 2. I

[sage-devel] Re: Coercion trouble

2007-11-16 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, mabshoff wrote: > On Nov 16, 1:30 am, Iftikhar Burhanuddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I run into some coercion trouble when I reduce a fourier coefficient > > of a cusp form modulo a prime ideal. (See below.) > > No clue for now, but that loo

[sage-devel] Coercion trouble

2007-11-15 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, I run into some coercion trouble when I reduce a fourier coefficient of a cusp form modulo a prime ideal. (See below.) Any idea how I can avoid this? Regards, Ifti === sage: M = ModularSymbols(77, 2) sage: s = M.cuspidal_subspace().new_subspace() sage: N = s.decomposition() sage:

[sage-devel] Re: SD4 photos

2007-06-19 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, My pics are available at http://www.sagemath.org:9001/days4/Pictures Regards, Ifti --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options,

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in next_prime

2007-06-07 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Michel wrote: > It has often bothered me that there is a big difference in > performance between > next_prime(...) and > (...).next_prime() > > I.e. try (...)=2^4096. > > Looking at the source code I see that the first gives (by default) a > provable > result, whereas the sec

[sage-devel] Re: symbolic variables

2007-06-07 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, William Stein wrote: > That's pretty amusing. What you're really doing is the following: Amusing indeed. Thanks for clearing that up. I got confused because I obtained the following: sage: version(); type(x(x-1)); x(x-1) 'SAGE Version 2.6, Release Date: 2007-06-02' x - 1

[sage-devel] Re: symbolic variables

2007-06-07 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
ng on the list.) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:57:39 -0700 From: Iftikhar Burhanuddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sage: x(x-1) bug --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: SageX tutorial

2007-06-02 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, William Stein wrote: > I just created one: > > http://www.sagemath.org/pub.html The above url states: "... reference SAGE as follows: SAGE Mathematics Software, Version 2.6, http://www.sagemath.org/"; whereas the following url gives different advice: http://sagemath.o

[sage-devel] Re: Combinatorics in SAGE

2007-02-24 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Dear folks, While we are on the topic of "Combinatorics in SAGE", it will be a healthy exercise to make a todo list of what is needed. I look forward to the day when I can teach Combinatorics (undergrad) classes in CS/Math using SAGE. For starters volunteers can sift through standard textbooks to

[sage-devel] SD3 pics

2007-02-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Please put a link to your SD3 pics here (like I have): http://sage.math.washington.edu:9001/days3/pics Regards, Ifti --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [

[sage-devel] Memory leaks

2007-02-14 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, The following piece of code seems to leak a lot of memory (with/without the statement 'del X') during long runs of computation: while true: X = SupersingularModule(p) X.hecke_matrix(2) del X p = ZZ(p).next_prime() To pin down the souce of leakage, I

[sage-devel] sage.math scheduled downtime 12/2

2007-02-10 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, When I logged into sage.math today I saw the following annoucement: """ SCHEDULE Downtime: Monday, Feb 12, 2007, 11am - 3pm for upgrades (extra 8 cores :-). """ This is a head-up to scheduled your computation around the downtime. 8 more cores. Cool! Regards, Ifti ps: William, i

[sage-devel] Re: sage.math down?

2007-02-07 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Joshua Kantor wrote: > It appears as of around 10:30 p.m. feb 7 that sage.math and > modular.math are down and unpingable. Yup. (I was just about to send William an email about it.) I had a long computation running on sage.math which I was *just* about to pull to put into my

[sage-devel] Re: parallel computation

2007-02-07 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Yi Qiang wrote: > Yes I plan on giving a talk. Hopefully there are still time slots > available either on Saturday or Sunday, does anyone know where to > sign up for presentation time? I did not find anything in the wiki. Yi, your talk has been slotted over the weekend. You

[sage-devel] Re: mercurial

2007-02-07 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, David Harvey wrote: > there are others on this list with the same problem, please speak up. > If there are enough of us, then I would be *really* happy if someone > could do a "Mercurial for Dummies" talk at SD3. Just go through a few > typical workflows, and explain what the h

[sage-devel] Re: Problem coercing constants into polynomial rings

2007-02-06 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Nick Alexander wrote: > sage: R = ZZ['u', 'v'] > > sage: EllipticCurve(R, [1,1]) > --- > Traceback (most recent call > last) But the one variable version works ... Regards, Ifti sage: R

[sage-devel] Re: Increasing height/width/breadth of notebook cells

2007-02-06 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (Ifti -- put this issue into trac, if it isn't already -- and don't be > afraid to do so in general. Good to keep me reminded regularly.) No Fear :) Done. Ticket #246. Regards, Ifti --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-devel] Increasing height/width/breadth of notebook cells

2007-02-06 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, When I paste a huge string into a notebook cell, the height of the cell doesn't increase appropriately and scrolling through the string using my cursor and maneuvering the tiny scroll bar are painful. I was wondering if there is any way to increase the height of cells in the SAGE noteb

[sage-devel] Re: dsage docstring

2007-01-31 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Yi Qiang wrote: > Hey what docstrings were not available? When I type dsage? I get a > docstring, as well as dsage.server? and dsage.worker? Yi, My opinion was that "Release early, release often" is great but one should keep an key on documentation and testing. In particula

[sage-devel] Re: doc browser

2007-01-28 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > It would be helpful if somebody would try out the doc browser by > going to http://sage.math.washington.edu:8100/ and clicking > on Documentation (in the upper right), and tell me what you think. > I'm aware that if you bring up a *huge* page that your b

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.0

2007-01-28 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Congrats to everyone on the milestone! Regards, Ifti. ps: Installed fine on my Macbook pro. real64m36.574s user39m42.589s sys 15m47.636s On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > > Hello, > > I have released SAGE-2.0. Enjoy!! > > -- William > > > > --~--~-~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: integer.valuation and polynomial.valuation

2007-01-26 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:01:32 -0800, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I also don't really think that valuation is the best term to use > >> > for the > >> > integer method. I think it would be better named "ord", but I > >> > don't know i

[sage-devel] Re: SD3 room sharing wanted

2007-01-25 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Yi Qiang wrote: > I am looking for someone to room share with from 02/16/07 to 02/18/07 > for SD3. If you are going to be going for only the weekend and want > to split a room, please email me. I've added your name here. http://sage.math.washington.edu:9001/days3/roommates

[sage-devel] Re: prog.tex = Programming Guide

2007-01-24 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: > BTW where's the SAGE preparser located at? There's nothing in prog.tex > about preparsing and something needs to be said. I believe SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-preparse answers my

[sage-devel] prog.tex = Programming Guide

2007-01-24 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
I did a sage -upgrade on my sage-1.8 to get to sage-1.8.1 and I have the following question: Running sage -t foo.py creates the directory .doctest and the file ".doctest_foo.py". The reference manual section 4.3.1 claims such testing should create .doctest and the file ".doctest/foo.py". Should I

[sage-devel] Re: Possible undergraduate projects

2007-01-23 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
ways to consolidate this information. This brings to mind the Google Summer of Code project. http://code.google.com/soc/ Regards, Ifti On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Nils Bruin wrote: > > > > Projects that are more of a computer science

[sage-devel] Re: Possible undergraduate projects

2007-01-23 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Nils Bruin wrote: > > Projects that are more of a computer science nature could also be > doable. > > Any ideas here? Should I be looking somewhere on the wiki? AFAIK the only todo list is for bugs/milestones http://sage.math.washington.edu:9002/sage_trac Perhaps you should

[sage-devel] Re: sage-1.8

2007-01-23 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
modified sage library code. 172:~/Documents/sage-1.8 weirdalerdos$ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:27:06 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Sivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: sage-devel@googlegroups.com To: "sage-devel@googlegroups.com" Cc: sage-support@goog

[sage-devel] Re: sage-1.8

2007-01-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > I've released SAGE-1.8. This is mostly a bugfix release, but has a bunch of > code sage-1.8 installed successfully [1] but there's junk [2] on each startup and other weirdness [3]. Ifti. + [1] === Writing /Users/weirdalerdos/Docu

[sage-devel] Re: freshmeat

2007-01-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jaap Spies wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > Could somebody volunteer to add SAGE to freshmeat?: > > > > http://freshmeat.net/add-project/ > > > > This medium is like talking via Mars The above is weird but if you create a login, activate account and login things work

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE in the third world...

2007-01-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > > Based on everything I've seen, I think SAGE is totally wrong for OLPC, at > least > at this point in time. Just the hardware specs of the machine are such that > SAGE wouldn't fit in it for starters. In which case we should construct a low-cost mac

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE in the third world...

2007-01-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Martin Albrecht wrote: > This might be an issue but can be addressed. When I start SAGE on my machine > it uses ~ 34MB of physical memory. > >Mass storage: 512 MiB SLC NAND flash, high speed flash controller > > This is definitely a problem. SAGE_LOCAL takes 450 MB on my

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE in the third world...

2007-01-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
* http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage * http://modular.fas.harvard.edu/sage * http://cocoa.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/sage/ * http://echidna.maths.usyd.edu.au/sage * http://sage.scipy.org/sage There has been discussion on this list about hosting SAGE out of South America and

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE in the third world...

2007-01-21 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Thanks for the forward. They mirror my sentiments. In fact, plans are in place to host a SAGE mirror in India. William will update everyone about the same when things fall into place. Regards, Ifti On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > > > > --- Forwarded message --- > From: "Davi

[sage-devel] Re: talk on SAGE today

2007-01-19 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > I gave a talk on SAGE today entitled > From SAGE 1.0 to SAGE 2.0: > One year of hard work by over 30 people... > > You can look at it here: > > http://modular.math.washington.edu/talks/2007-01-19-sage/ > > (Click on talk.html, or get the sag

[sage-devel] Re: Reference documentation

2007-01-17 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: > > Is this a good snapshot of SAGE talks? > > > > http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/talks/ > > > > If this is anybody out there who has given a SAGE talk and is not > > listed above. Please send an email to William, so that the above url > > docume

[sage-devel] Re: Reference documentation

2007-01-16 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:19:49 -0800, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course we need to get more sage codevelopers. Hopefully some of the > upcoming events will recruit more people. Yep, that's one of the best things about sage days workshops.

[sage-devel] Re: Reference documentation

2007-01-16 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:14:43 -0800, Iftikhar Burhanuddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What will help is to externalize the knowledge you have acquired in > written form at /leisure/ (and maybe I could flesh it out and put it into > an

[sage-devel] Re: Reference documentation

2007-01-16 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Nick Alexander wrote: Hi everyone, esp. William and Ifti, I had been looking at the reference documentation building code, but I haven't made too much progress and I don't have time to continue. So Ifti, please don't wait any more :) Sorry, Nick Don't be. SAGE is a

[sage-devel] Re: serious bugs in sage-1.6.1?

2007-01-15 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Justin C. Walker wrote: I see this behavior, but it seems to be changed (both for ipython and sage) from earlier behavior. Specifically, when you 'uparrow', you get the full, multi-line, input displayed. as if it were one line. Once was both systems would display each 'part

[sage-devel] Re: sage-devel triple-sending?

2007-01-13 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Is it just me, or is everybody getting 3 copies of every message sent from sage-devel? I'm getting 3-4 copies. (Took some time to figure out that I wasn't dreaming!) Regards, Ifti. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googl

[sage-devel] References in docstrings

2007-01-11 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, There is currently no standard when it comes to giving a literature reference in the function docstring. Instances such as 'See A's paper' or 'See '[X-Y-Z] for proof' abound. Should there be a References section for each module which a label in the docstring will point to, or should th

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE Days 3 Registration time ...

2007-01-10 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Rishikesh wrote: > > I think we should have a place in wiki to match people for > sharing hotel room. I just made one. If you would like to share a hotel room with another SD3 participant please leave your contact info here http://sage.math.washington.edu:9001/days3/roommat

[sage-devel] Re: Some questions about the SAGE Reference Manual

2007-01-05 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Nick Alexander wrote: Hi Ifti, Before you spend too much time fixing such problems, I started rewriting the ref manual generation code to make it easier to avoid such issues. I'm not done; are you interested in helping? Sure. Perhaps we should take this discussion offlin

[sage-devel] Re: Some questions about the SAGE Reference Manual

2007-01-05 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: A given file also has to be input/included into ref.tex somehow. Touching just makes sure that the tex version of the file is generated. How do I initiate the generation of the file sage.schemes.elliptic-curves.ell-point.tex, which would contain the cla

[sage-devel] Some questions about the SAGE Reference Manual

2007-01-04 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi, I believe the SAGE Reference Manual is constructed by pulling docstrings from the source code. [1] Is there a mechanism by which files are selected for their function definitions, docstrings to be included/excluded in the Manual. If all files are selected, why *don't* docstrings (for instan

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.0 !

2007-01-04 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: Also, it will be tremendously exciting that the PARI included in SAGE will be much faster than the stand-alone PARI :-). This seems to be a trend --- PARI+SAGE, Pyrex+SAGE --- forking other projects and adding value! What's next? ;) Ifti. --~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: updated sage-2.0 list

2007-01-03 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
I'm confused by your approach. I think it would be better if the document you make is separate from the sage reference manual. Just start a new document and as you go through ref.tex looking for things add sections to your new document. Don't mix them up together. They will be separate docum

[sage-devel] Re: updated sage-2.0 list

2007-01-03 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: * As I prepare for SD2.5 http://sage.math.washington.edu/msri07/ (http://modular.math.washington.edu/ seems to be down) I will be enhancing some sections of devel/doc/ref/ref.tex. Specifically, I'm eyeballing the SAGE source code (wit

[sage-devel] Re: updated sage-2.0 list

2007-01-03 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: == Documentation == * First steps Documentation: A 15-page introduction, like Magma's "First Steps" guide. -- David Joyner (??) * The programming guide: needs lots of work -- Ifti B., William Stein (??) -- Jaap Spies *

[sage-devel] Re: modular.math and sage.math

2007-01-02 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, William Stein wrote: Nobody is allowed to ssh into modular.math but me. I think this might be a good thing. For example, your home directory on modular.math is a backup of your home directory on sage.math, so if you were to login and change files, they would just get set ba

[sage-devel] SAGE website mirrors and SDNY

2006-12-31 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
Hi folks, Given that sage.math is down, I was searching for SAGE mirrors and stumbled upon http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ http://echidna.maths.usyd.edu.au/sage The only places this seems to be documented are http://sage.math.washington.edu:9001/A_short_introduction_to_SAGE and its language tran

[sage-devel] Re: sage.math dead as a doornail?

2006-12-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Bill Hart wrote: Seconds before it died, it said: Could you email me (and not the list if this is deemed off-topic) how you obtained this information? 6929 burhanud 18 0 40.8g 18g 3068 R 93.4 28.8 2019:53 sage-ipython 13064 dav 34 19 50.9g 33g 1464 S 2.3

[sage-devel] Re: sage.math dead as a doornail?

2006-12-22 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
I was logged on to sage.math until late last night. There was some computation by namewithheld which was comsuming 60% of memory. I believe William is on vacation and will not be checking on a regular basis. Perhaps you should give him a call ... ciao On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, David Harvey wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE \rightarrow SAGE

2006-12-19 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, William Stein wrote: SAGE's core focus is algebra, geometry and experimentation (all relatively loosely interpreted, e.g., number theory and differential geometry both count as part of "algebra and geometry"), so I think the name should stay as is. It is important to have s

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation format

2006-12-19 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: I put in a NOTES section in the SAGE Programming Guide which was released as part of sage-1.5 Correction. The docstring NOTES section existed in the programming guide prior to my editing. I merely incorporated it into the docstring template

[sage-devel] Re: The mysteries of the coercion model

2006-12-18 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
> This all raises an interesting question. What is the argument for > having ZZ(Mod(1, 3)) = ZZ(1)? I don't think there is a canonical map > Z/nZ --> Z; am I wrong? BTW, I like having the map -- it makes mapping > Z[x] --> (Z/nZ)[x] very convenient :) Hi, Perhaps this might help: The SAGE Ru

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation format

2006-12-18 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Alexander wrote: > and AUTHORS:. If you think an ALSO: section would be useful, such a > thing could be arranged. At some point, I would like to hyperlink the > inline documentation, sage tracebacks, notebook, etc, so an ALSO: > section would fit right in. Hi, I put i

[sage-devel] Re: logo

2006-12-16 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
The feedback of mon ami follows. Ifti. == Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: >> I would suggest SAGE \rightarrow Sage. > > Why ... coz it's not an acronym anymore? No, because Sage is an actual word, and a very appropriate one in the current context. > Check this thread out

[sage-devel] Re: logo

2006-12-15 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is something that my brother and I agreed on, too. It's a logo, > not a document. Actually, the article Ifti posted presents an > interesting viewpoint on the matter. Lucent's symbol was widely met > with disdain because it was "casual" and "h

[sage-devel] SAGE \rightarrow SAGE

2006-12-15 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
While we are on the subject of logos, I propose that since SAGE is becoming multifaceted, moving beyond system, algebra, geometry and exprimentation, SAGE should be rechristened as SAGE the word (and not the acronym.) just like HP[1]. A friend of mine told me that this is happening with a lot of c

[sage-devel] Re: logo

2006-12-15 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Iftikhar Burhanuddin wrote: > > SAGe's favicon is the word "SAGE", but rotated at an angle so it > > looks neat. Now that the new logo has made it to http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ I propose that the BDFL annoint it as the Official SAG

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