[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-28 Thread gsage
That is quite interesting. The problem in the faq indicated a potential filename problem. But that seems rather unlikely after you moved your $SAGE_ROOT to tmp. Any chance your username or hostname has any odd characters in it? I am thinking about anything that is not 7- bit ASCII. May

[sage-support] Re: Problem with the installation

2007-08-28 Thread mabshoff
Hello Eze, On Aug 28, 3:50 pm, Eze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to install SAGE in my computer. I have downloaded the newest version of WMwareplayer and following the instructions. Despite having the required space, when i double click on the sage.vmx i get the message that

[sage-support] Re: n() method for rational numbers

2007-08-28 Thread mabshoff
Ted Kosan wrote: The n() method is not currently defined for rational numbers: x = 1/2 x.n() Exception (click to the left for traceback): ... AttributeError: 'sage.rings.rational.Rational' object has no attribute 'n' Would it be possible to add it? I am sure it will happen. I put

[sage-support] Re: Problem with the installation

2007-08-28 Thread William Stein
On 8/28/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have enough disc space, but VMWare complains about the amount of RAM assigned to the sage.vmx. There should be a config dialog where you can reduce the amount of RAM required. In the sage-vmware-2.8 directory, use notebook to edit sage.vmx

[sage-support] Re: n() method for rational numbers

2007-08-28 Thread William Stein
On 8/28/07, Ted Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The n() method is not currently defined for rational numbers: x = 1/2 x.n() Exception (click to the left for traceback): ... AttributeError: 'sage.rings.rational.Rational' object has no attribute 'n' Would it be possible to add it?

[sage-support] Re: n() method for rational numbers

2007-08-28 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: Actually, I don't see a compelling reason to add it for rationals since it is already available as a function: sage: N(1/2,10) 0.50 sage: N(2/3,10) 0.67 sage: N(2/3,50) 0.67 My request for adding a n() method for rationals is an extension of