[sage-support] Banner not upgraded

2007-11-26 Thread Simon King
Dear Sage team, i just upgraded sage on two machines. One has gcc 4.1.2 on it, the other has gcc 4.2.1. On the machine with 4.1.2, starting sage still looks like this: sage -- | SAGE Version 2.8.10, Release Date: 2007-10-28

[sage-support] Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: Banner not updated

2007-11-26 Thread William Stein
On Nov 26, 2007 1:42 AM, Simon King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sage team, i just upgraded sage on two machines. One has gcc 4.1.2 on it, the other has gcc 4.2.1. On the machine with 4.1.2, starting sage still looks like this: sage

[sage-support] solving matrix equations

2007-11-26 Thread M. Miller
Hello, I am trying to solve a system of matrix equations of the form: transpose(B)*(Mi)*B==Ni where i is in range(p) for some fixed p 9, Mi and Ni have integer entries, and all matrices are of size p by p. I want to solve for B (it need not have integer entries). I have tried a brute force

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-26 Thread rdl
Hi, http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/vmware/ has been modified so that all files are 2GB. So you might want to try it out and see if it works on your system, and report back either way. actually I followed Jason's suggestion, namely I installed NTFS-3G on my linux box and then converted

[sage-support] Re: inconsistent subobjects

2007-11-26 Thread William Stein
On Nov 26, 2007 12:55 PM, Francis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subgroups of abelian groups: sage: G.a, b = AbelianGroup(2) sage: A = G.subgroup([a]) sage: B = G.subgroup([b]) sage: A == B True Surely not! I agree that this is dumb, and have made it trac ticket #1284.

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-26 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: I think one student working for two weeks could greatly enhance solve, but making it: (1) try the maxima solve, and (2) if the maxima solve returns no solutions, do something further that involves numerics, e.g., calling to scipy's iterative solver. In

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-26 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, I've posted a patch for # -- http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/ --Mike On Nov 26, 2007 3:34 PM, Ted Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William wrote: I think one student working for two weeks could greatly enhance solve, but making it: (1) try the maxima solve, and