Re: [sage-devel] Wiki question

2010-01-24 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Jan 23, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> Nick Alexander wrote: IMHO, that is far too trivial. Most 14 year old school child will know what that is. >>> >>> You say that like it is a Bad Thing. >> >> Well it i

Re: [sage-devel] Wiki question

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 23, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Nick Alexander wrote: IMHO, that is far too trivial. Most 14 year old school child will know what that is. You say that like it is a Bad Thing. Well it is if you want to stop a spammer. They want to edit the page, so they answer such a

Re: [sage-devel] Wiki question

2010-01-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Nick Alexander wrote: IMHO, that is far too trivial. Most 14 year old school child will know what that is. You say that like it is a Bad Thing. Well it is if you want to stop a spammer. They want to edit the page, so they answer such a simple question, and away they go. How is knowing the ne

Re: [sage-devel] Wiki question

2010-01-23 Thread Nick Alexander
IMHO, that is far too trivial. Most 14 year old school child will know what that is. You say that like it is a Bad Thing. Personally, I think a text file in the source directory would be best. It would mean someone has downloaded the source (do same for binary). If they have never download

Re: [sage-devel] Wiki question

2010-01-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jason Grout wrote: Personally, I think the wiki question is too hard now and prevents people from easily contributing good things. For example, someone ended up giving up (for now) contributing something because they forgot to divide by two when finding the area. The current question is: Wh

Re: [sage-devel] Wiki question

2010-01-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:05:29 -0600, Jason Grout wrote: > Personally, I think the wiki question is too hard now and prevents > people from easily contributing good things. For example, someone ended > up giving up (for now) contributing something because they forgot to > divide by two when fin

[sage-devel] Wiki question

2010-01-23 Thread Jason Grout
Personally, I think the wiki question is too hard now and prevents people from easily contributing good things. For example, someone ended up giving up (for now) contributing something because they forgot to divide by two when finding the area. The current question is: What is the area of th