[sage-devel] Re: broken var('h1')._maxima_()

2010-03-31 Thread andrejv
On Mar 31, 11:40 am, "ma...@mendelu.cz" wrote: > Dear Sage developers > > var('h1')._maxima_()  returns a binomial coefficient instead of 'h1'. > I was not find an explanation for this behavior in sage/interfaces and > sage/symbolic. Do you have any explanation for this (I think > unintended) beha

[sage-devel] Re: bad binomial sum

2010-01-16 Thread andrejv
> andrejv wrote: > > On Jan 10, 6:15 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > > > Hi, I got this from the report a problem link: > > > > Typing (in the inotebook) > > > > var('t,k,i') > > > sum(binomial(i+t,t),i,0,k) > > > > results i

[sage-devel] Re: weirdness in simplifying a symbolic expression

2010-01-15 Thread andrejv
On Jan 15, 9:37 am, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:43 PM, andrejv wrote: > > > On Jan 15, 6:14 am, Craig Citro wrote: > >> Yeah, this is wacky. I can tell you why it's happening, though someone > >> who's ever used Maxima before

[sage-devel] Re: weirdness in simplifying a symbolic expression

2010-01-14 Thread andrejv
On Jan 15, 6:14 am, Craig Citro wrote: > Yeah, this is wacky. I can tell you why it's happening, though someone > who's ever used Maxima before should really think about the right fix. > Here's the issue: in sage.calculus.calculus, there's an instance of > Maxima that gets created and passed the

[sage-devel] Re: bad binomial sum

2010-01-11 Thread andrejv
On Jan 10, 6:15 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi, I got this from the report a problem link: > > Typing (in the inotebook) > > var('t,k,i') > sum(binomial(i+t,t),i,0,k) > > results in > > binomial(k + t + 1, t + 1) - 1 > > which is false, the well-known answer is binomial(k + t + 1, t + 1) There is

[sage-devel] Re: simplify (sqrt(6)-sqrt(5))^-1

2009-12-10 Thread andrejv
On Dec 10, 12:39 pm, "ma...@mendelu.cz" wrote: > On 10 pro, 11:02, Harald Schilly wrote: > > > > (%i3) ratsimp(a), algebraic=true; > > > Ok, is it wise to do this by default if called from sage? > > Not sure (could it break something in integration for example?) but > without this we have bug des

[sage-devel] Re: simplify (sqrt(6)-sqrt(5))^-1

2009-12-09 Thread andrejv
On Dec 10, 6:21 am, kcrisman wrote: > On Dec 9, 5:07 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > > > > > Hi, i got a "report a problem" comment about how > > simplify/full_simplify works. I think this could be sent to maxima > > upstream? > > > Well, here is the (rather educational) example: > > > sage: a=(sqrt(

[sage-devel] Re: Using MPIR or GMP with multiple memory managers

2009-08-24 Thread andrejv
On 24 avg., 08:52, William Stein wrote: > OK, that is very valuable to know.   It means that independent of > Sage, just evaluating the same expression "1+2" in Maxima repeatedly > quickly leads to dramatic slowdowns.  This seems to me like an > absolutely huge bug in Maxima. > > I did another te