[sage-support] Re: Mysterious problem.

2008-03-27 Thread Michel
which sage gives /usr/bin/sage which is the usual script which sets SAGE_ROOT (/usr/local/share/sage-2.10.4 in this case) and calls /usr/local/share/sage-2.10.4/local/bin/sage-sage. Things like env SAGE_ROOT=/usr/local/share/sage-2.10.4 /usr/local/share/ sage-2.10.4/local/bin/sage-sage

[sage-support] Re: Mysterious problem.

2008-03-27 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 27, 7:03 am, Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which sage gives /usr/bin/sage which is the usual script which sets SAGE_ROOT (/usr/local/share/sage-2.10.4 in this case) and calls /usr/local/share/sage-2.10.4/local/bin/sage-sage. Things like  env SAGE_ROOT=/usr/local/share/sage-2.10.4

[sage-support] quaternions

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Godsil
I want to extract the real part of a quaternion, i.e., if L.i,j,k = QuaternionAlgebra(QQ,-1,-1); and a is in L, then I want the coefficient of 1 in the expansion of as a linear combination of 1, i, j and k. Is there a way to do this? A graceful way? (I have also discovered that using

[sage-support] Re: quaternions

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Godsil
Just for reference, two comments on the documentation for quaternions: If x is an element of L as below, then neither x? nor x?? returns any information about methods that apply to x. Second, in the documentation on quaternions in the reference manual, there is no reference that I could find to

[sage-support] random questions

2008-03-27 Thread kcrisman
These are curiosity questions. Hope someone knows, but perhaps some are just buried a little deeper in the documentation than I thought. 1. The solve wrapper of maxima does some nice stuff symbolically, but of course it can't handle everything, like sage: solve(x^5-x-12,x) [0 == x^5 - x - 12]

[sage-support] Re: no sage.bin

2008-03-27 Thread toothpaste
Please find below links to the install.log and the output of uname -a http://syntaxthug.syntaxpolice.org/~ralf/install.log http://syntaxthug.syntaxpolice.org/~ralf/uname.txt I think that I have enough room for an install. The first install failed for lack of space and then I wrote to the host

[sage-support] Re: random questions

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, 1. The solve wrapper of maxima does some nice stuff symbolically, but of course it can't handle everything, like sage: solve(x^5-x-12,x) [0 == x^5 - x - 12] which makes sense! But I poked around a little for a numerical approximation of solutions command and didn't find

[sage-support] Re: Mysterious problem.

2008-03-27 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 27, 4:55 pm, Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, Hi Michael, I feel embarrassed causing so much trouble While answering your email I finally solved the problem (which was my fault of course). I turned out that I had a stray libstdc ++.so.6 in my home directory which

[sage-support] Re: no sage.bin

2008-03-27 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 28, 5:04 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:36 PM, toothpaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Please find below links to the install.log and the output of uname -a  http://syntaxthug.syntaxpolice.org/~ralf/install.log