[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-27 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Bill Page wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:56 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Bill Page wrote: >>> >>> I just created a new experimental version of the FriCAS package for >>> sage. You can download and install it as follows: >>

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Dodier
On Jan 27, 12:25 am, William Stein wrote: > I'm using gmail and the fonts are proportionally spaced, so ASCII is > mangled (of course, I'm being lazy -- I could paste it somewhere). FWIW if you choose "Show original" from the options, the message is displayed using a fixed width font, from what

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-27 Thread Bill Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:56 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Bill Page wrote: >> >> I just created a new experimental version of the FriCAS package for >> sage. You can download and install it as follows: >> >> $ wget http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/page/packag

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-27 Thread Martin Rubey
William Stein writes: > > I think, very very well. It's amazing how much improvement is possible > > even if only very few people work with that code. Of course, you could > > also read that as "the code was very shitty, it's easy to improve" :-) > > Is the main improvement implementing the s

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-27 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: > > William Stein writes: > >> How is fricas going these days, by the way? [I think this is on topic given the topic of this thread, and that FriCAS is open source math software.] > I think, very very well. It's amazing how much improvemen

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-27 Thread Martin Rubey
William Stein writes: > How is fricas going these days, by the way? I think, very very well. It's amazing how much improvement is possible even if only very few people work with that code. Of course, you could also read that as "the code was very shitty, it's easy to improve" :-) Yesterday n

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-26 Thread Martin Rubey
David Roe writes: > It's possible that you're using html or some other markup in your e-mail > that some of us using text-based clients aren't getting. Huh? I don't understand, who are you adressing? I'm using Gnus, which is unlikely to insert any tabs or markup. > The main problem with the

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-26 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: > > William Stein writes: > >> I don't personally know it, since it's pretty hard to read that ASCII >> art in email. I know some people (Chris Mihelich and Ken Ono) who >> would likely instantly know... but you should typeset a short note >>

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-26 Thread David Roe
It's possible that you're using html or some other markup in your e-mail that some of us using text-based clients aren't getting. The main problem with the way your message appears for me is that the exponents are not paired with their bases. It's totally unreadable. Whereas many mathematicians

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-26 Thread Martin Rubey
William Stein writes: > I don't personally know it, since it's pretty hard to read that ASCII > art in email. I know some people (Chris Mihelich and Ken Ono) who > would likely instantly know... but you should typeset a short note > about this in tex to make it more palatable to mathematicians.

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-26 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: > > William Stein writes: > >> By the way, when using this, I repeatedly felt like I wished the >> command in Sage were "fricas" instead of "axiom" and the file to test >> were "fricas.py" instead of "axiom.py". > > I agree. Meanwhile, FriCA

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-26 Thread Martin Rubey
William Stein writes: > By the way, when using this, I repeatedly felt like I wished the > command in Sage were "fricas" instead of "axiom" and the file to test > were "fricas.py" instead of "axiom.py". I agree. Meanwhile, FriCAS is well established. By the way, is the following differential

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-26 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Bill Page wrote: > > I just created a new experimental version of the FriCAS package for > sage. You can download and install it as follows: > > $ wget http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/page/packages/fricas-1.0.5.spkg > $ .../sage -f fricas-1.0.5.spkg The ab

[sage-devel] Re: fricas release 1.0.5 package for sage

2009-01-26 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Bill Page wrote: > > I just created a new experimental version of the FriCAS package for > sage. You can download and install it as follows: > > $ wget http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/page/packages/fricas-1.0.5.spkg > $ .../sage -f fricas-1.0.5.spkg One ca