[sage-support] SAGE-2.8.15!

2007-12-03 Thread William Stein
Hello folks, Sage 2.8.15 has been released. It is available at http://sagemath.org/download.html The following people contributed this release: - Craig Citro - Dan Drake - David Harvey - Michael Abshoff - Martin Albreecht - Jen Balakrishnan - Robert Bradshaw - Jason Grout -

[sage-support] Re: Weaning

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, > 1) Taylor series of a rational function. > > This works: > sage: cos(x).taylor(x,0,2) > > This doesn't: > sage: x/(1+x).taylor(x,0,2) > > This is very confusing: > sage: var('x') > sage: x/(1+x).taylor(x,0,2) This is due to the fact that '.' binds tighter than '/'. For example, sage:

[sage-support] Weaning

2007-12-03 Thread pgdoyle
I'm trying to wean myself from Mathematica. Here are some issues I've been wrestling over with SAGE. I apologize in advance for not showing the sage output, which I'm sure there is some easy way to generate automatically from this file. 1) Taylor series of a rational function. This works: sag

[sage-support] Re: cannot start notebook

2007-12-03 Thread georg
> Hi Georg, > > thanks for your interest in SAGE. If you want, you can help SAGE > become part of Debian here: > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/DebianSAGE > > it's a lot of work and we always need more people. :) > > Ondrej Hi Ondrej, I'm definitely prepared and encouraged to contribute concerning th

[sage-support] cimport finite field fails?

2007-12-03 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
Hi, I want to write a spyx file to do some things with finite fields. I'm guessing that my first step is to cimport either finite_field_givaro or finite_field_ntl_gf2e (given that the pxd files exist in my sage source tree) but both of these fail. Am I doing something wrong here? [EMAIL PROTECTE

[sage-support] Re: cannot start notebook

2007-12-03 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Good idea. I've made this trac #1378: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1378 Hi Georg, thanks for your interest in SAGE. If you want, you can help SAGE become part of Debian here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/DebianSAGE it's a lot of work and we always need more people. :) Ondrej

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

2007-12-03 Thread joel
Dropping the library into /usr/local/lib has done the trick. Thanks for the help guys, its much appreciated. Joel On Dec 1, 4:37 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 30, 2007 2:22 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:15 AM, mabshoff w