[sage-devel] Re: symbolic series help needed

2015-04-01 Thread Ralf Stephan
... or when s/he is clever then they would also try tab completion. Yes that's what I mean: x.(TAB): ... x.save x.simplify_radical x.step x.seriesx.simplify_rational x.subs x.show x.simplify_real

[sage-devel] Re: symbolic series help needed

2015-04-01 Thread Simon King
Hi Ralf, On 2015-04-01, Ralf Stephan gtrw...@gmail.com wrote: Symbolic series is what the user often encounters first when looking in Sage for power series. I disagree with that statement. A user who wants to know how to do something in Sage is supposed to search the documentation, or when

[sage-devel] Re: symbolic series help needed

2015-04-01 Thread Ralf Stephan
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 10:57:35 AM UTC+2, Simon King wrote: In fact, even though I am a somewhat experienced Sage user, I didn't even know that symbolic series exist. And they are at the moment the only way to get the formal series expansion of any nontrivial function. To repeat: I

[sage-devel] Re: symbolic series help needed

2015-04-01 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 10:57:35 AM UTC+2, Simon King wrote: Hi Ralf, On 2015-04-01, Ralf Stephan gtr...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Symbolic series is what the user often encounters first when looking in Sage for power series. I disagree with that statement. A user who wants

[sage-devel] Re: symbolic series help needed

2015-04-01 Thread Ralf Stephan
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 2:07:34 PM UTC+2, Fredrik Johansson wrote: Perhaps confusingly, http://www.sagemath.org/doc/constructions/calculus.html#power-series offers .taylor() and .powerseries() without mentioning .series() or Sage's PowerSeries. Thanks. I attempted an improvement: