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

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 1:39 AM, Paul Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One interesting thing is that I made it so that f.find_root(a,b) works even if the sign of f(a) and f(b) are the same. In that case, it will find a min or max of f on the interval, and use that as a new endpoint

[sage-support] Plotting in sage versus plotting in matlab

2007-12-08 Thread pgdoyle
I told a colleague about sage, wondering if he would see it as a viable alternative to matlab for numerical work. This was his response: I don't know SAGE - it looks great. I'm looking forward to trying it once things settle down. I've used python for a project and it was excellent. I think

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

2007-12-08 Thread Mike Hansen
http://www.sagemath.org:9002/sage_trac/ticket/1235 should be faster. --Mike On Dec 8, 2007 12:50 PM, Ted Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William wrote: As a start I've implemented find_root (and some minizing and maximizing functions) and posted a patch here:

[sage-support] Re: Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 3:51 PM, wdbragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William, I have been trying for hours to get the notebook server to start automatically using init scripts. I am trying the method you posted earlier in this list. ( All of this is on a fresh install of debian etch ) I have an

[sage-support] Re: Plotting in sage versus plotting in matlab

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 6:07 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 8, 2007 9:03 AM, pgdoyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I told a colleague about sage, wondering if he would see it as a viable alternative to matlab for numerical work. This was his response: I don't know SAGE - it

[sage-support] Re: Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 5:54 PM, wdbragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now I have it as a symlink sager:/# ls -la /etc/rc2.d/S99startnotebook lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-12-08 13:10 /etc/rc2.d/S99startnotebook - ../init.d/startnotebook and after I boot, here are the contents of nohup.out The