[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread Mike Hansen
I tested your function up to 100,000 with all the variations of f, and they all worked after applying the patch for #847. --Mike On Nov 30, 2007 10:01 PM, john_perry_usm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks (I really like that!) but... While this approach worked well > with the numbers given, i

[sage-support] Re: install on maxosx 10.4 intel fails

2007-11-30 Thread William Stein
On Nov 30, 2007 2:22 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:15 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > On Nov 30, 10:51 am, joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I downloaded the modified tarball. It untar'd without complaint. > >> However on running notebook() for the first time i

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread john_perry_usm
Thanks (I really like that!) but... While this approach worked well with the numbers given, it generated the same error on larger values of n. regards john perry On Nov 30, 3:58 pm, "Mike Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > In Maple one typically write f:=x->x if one means a functi

[sage-support] Tutorial Feedback & More

2007-11-30 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi William et al, I am running sage-2.8.13-i686-Linux-Ubuntu.tar.gz, reading the tutorial. Meta comment: How about using hevea instead of latex2html? (Licensing issue) 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$apt-cache policy hevea latex2html|grep feisty 500 http://proxy.aims.ac.za feisty/main Packages

[sage-support] Re: install on maxosx 10.4 intel fails

2007-11-30 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:15 AM, mabshoff wrote: >> On Nov 30, 10:51 am, joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I downloaded the modified tarball. It untar'd without complaint. >>> However on running notebook() for the first time it bombed out, >>>

[sage-support] Re: install on maxosx 10.4 intel fails

2007-11-30 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:15 AM, mabshoff wrote: > On Nov 30, 10:51 am, joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I downloaded the modified tarball. It untar'd without complaint. >> However on running notebook() for the first time it bombed out, >> unable >> to find /usr/local/lib/libintl.3.dylib. >> >> d

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread William Stein
On Nov 30, 2007 1:58 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > In Maple one typically write f:=x->x if one means a function instead > > of an expression. Doing something similar in SAGE makes a *lot* of > > sense, so I don't object inherently to the lambda notation, although > >

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, > In Maple one typically write f:=x->x if one means a function instead > of an expression. Doing something similar in SAGE makes a *lot* of > sense, so I don't object inherently to the lambda notation, although > the default Python syntax ("lambda") is not intuitive to an "ordinary" > math

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread john_perry_usm
Hi, Thank you; that solution fits the matter perfectly. In Maple one typically write f:=x->x if one means a function instead of an expression. Doing something similar in SAGE makes a *lot* of sense, so I don't object inherently to the lambda notation, although the default Python syntax ("lambda"

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, This is an instance of http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/847 . I / we haven't had time to fix that one, but hopefully we can get to it tomorrow. For now, you should make sure that f is an actual Python function. sage: f = lambda x: x sage: Midpoint_Riemann_Sums(0, 5, f, 1000) 12

[sage-support] Re: install problem with pickleshare

2007-11-30 Thread maxj
Our posts crossed paths. The download was ok, GUI tools were bad, bash is good. I will try building from source soon, but right now I'm eager to try out SAGE and Python! Thanks, Max --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegro

[sage-support] Re: install problem with pickleshare

2007-11-30 Thread maxj
Our posts crossed paths. The download was ok, GUI tools were bad, bash is good. I will try building from source soon, but right now I'm eager to try out SAGE and Python! Thanks, Max --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegro

[sage-support] Re: install problem with pickleshare

2007-11-30 Thread maxj
I have now successfully started SAGE. My problem was using "The Unarchiver" to open the compressed file. (The Unarchiver.app is available at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/theunarchiver.html.) When I used the standard shell tools gunzip and tar to install SAGE, everyt

[sage-support] Re: install problem with pickleshare

2007-11-30 Thread maxj
I have now successfully started SAGE. My problem was using "The Unarchiver" to open the compressed file. (The Unarchiver.app is available at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/theunarchiver.html.) When I used the standard shell tools gunzip and tar to install SAGE, everyt

[sage-support] Re: install problem with pickleshare

2007-11-30 Thread William Stein
On Nov 30, 2007 9:11 AM, maxj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've installed the latest SAGE and encountered a similar-but-different > error, > this time when attempting to import module > "sage.rings.number_field.number_field_base". > From experimenting with the Python help system, it appears to m

[sage-support] Re: install problem with pickleshare

2007-11-30 Thread maxj
I've installed the latest SAGE and encountered a similar-but-different error, this time when attempting to import module "sage.rings.number_field.number_field_base". >From experimenting with the Python help system, it appears to me that the download did include module "sage.rings.number_field" but

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread David Joyner
Again, I don't understand the bug but piecewise seems to work better using lambda functions. sage: f = lambda x: x sage: fp = Piecewise([[(10,20),f]]) sage: fp.riemann_sum_integral_approximation(993) 148900/993 Next semester, when I have more time, I plan to revise piecewise. Maybe I can look in

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread john_perry_usm
Thank you! The following code produces the same error. f = x fp = Piecewise([[(10,20),f]]) fp.riemann_sum_integral_approximation(993) The student is doing this as an assignment for a class on how to write programs to solve problems in mathematics. (Newton's Method, Riemann sums, Fibonacci number

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread David Joyner
I'm not sure what the cause of the error is but, FYI, some Riemann sum stuff is already implemented in piecewise.py. On Nov 30, 2007 9:41 AM, john_perry_usm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > One of my students was writing a procedure to implement a Midpoint > Riemann Sum in SAGE. The proced

[sage-support] Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread john_perry_usm
Hi, One of my students was writing a procedure to implement a Midpoint Riemann Sum in SAGE. The procedure that she devised is given below, and it looks reasonable enough to me. Unfortunately it generates a SAGE exception (AttributeError, line 2051 of calculus.py) under certain bizarre circumstanc

[sage-support] Re: Changing basis in Free Modules (Disguising my question Changing basis in finite fields)

2007-11-30 Thread David Harvey
On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Ahmad wrote: > > Dear Sage Supporters, > > As nobody continued to pay attention to the question I asked in sept 3 > about how I want to change the field basis "permanently", I am using > john Cremona's idea to ask my question in another way, in hope to > attract more

[sage-support] Re: What is the reason for abbreviating Singular output?

2007-11-30 Thread Simon King
Dear team, > > Definitely i'm going to inform Singular. Concerning trac ticket: How > > to do so? > > You have to ask William Stein for a login and password > tohttp://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ Sorry for answering so late. The ticket is http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1300 Meanwhile i have

[sage-support] Re: install on maxosx 10.4 intel fails

2007-11-30 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 30, 10:51 am, joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the modified tarball. It untar'd without complaint. > However on running notebook() for the first time it bombed out, unable > to find /usr/local/lib/libintl.3.dylib. > > dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libintl.3.dylib

[sage-support] Re: install on maxosx 10.4 intel fails

2007-11-30 Thread joel
I downloaded the modified tarball. It untar'd without complaint. However on running notebook() for the first time it bombed out, unable to find /usr/local/lib/libintl.3.dylib. dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libintl.3.dylib Referenced from: /Users/sage/sage-2.8.13-i386-Darwin/local/bin