[sage-support] Trac Guidelines are now in the Wiki

2008-03-30 Thread mabshoff
Hello folks, there have been a large, nebulous set of rules regarding how things are done in trac, patch review and merging and the Sage development process in general. Now I finally took the time to clear those up and I put a *draft* of the guidelines up at

[sage-support] SAGE introduction via example (pseudo)research topic -- ideas needed

2008-03-30 Thread Jurgis Pralgauskis
Hello, I want to introduce SAGE to our uni applied math students during student conference. But conference is for research and not software presentations. So I look for an example research topic (can be simple and obvious) to demonstrate the capabilities of SAGE. i'll have ~10 minutes, so just

[sage-support] Re: Sage in Windows

2008-03-30 Thread Lars Fischer
Hello, Here is another alternative: 4.) Using winscp you can browse your home directory via ssh. Then you can select edit from the context menu. You can also configure the editor (as in you do not have to use emacs) for *.sage. Winscp takes care of up- and downloading the modified version of the

[sage-support] Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-30 Thread dwb
I'm using a Mac Book running OS X.4.11. I downloaded sage-2.10.3- osx10.4-intel-i386-Darwin.dmg, then followed the instructions in both the readme file and the video tutorial. When I double-click on the sage icon, instead of getting the dialog only half visible and glossed over in the video, I

[sage-support] Re: how to set coding to utf-8 in sage script

2008-03-30 Thread Lars Fischer
Hello, On Mar 30, 4:28 pm, vakaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How to set coding in *.sage script to utf-8 ? I have a script: # coding: utf-8 print klaidelė; there is a patch: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2593 and sage should be able to import this patch somehow. I tried

[sage-support] Re: how to set coding to utf-8 in sage script

2008-03-30 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 30, 5:10 pm, Lars Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Mar 30, 4:28 pm, vakaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How to set coding in *.sage script to utf-8 ? I have a script: # coding: utf-8 print klaidelė; there is a

[sage-support] Re: how to set coding to utf-8 in sage script

2008-03-30 Thread William Stein
On 3/30/08, vakaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How to set coding in *.sage script to utf-8 ? What version of sage are you using. I have a script: # coding: utf-8 print klaidelė; When I try to run it, I get: $ sage script.sage File script.py, line 4 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII

[sage-support] Problem to access C code

2008-03-30 Thread bourba
Hello. I would like to access external C code so I have exactly followed the example exposed in http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/tut/node51.html (5.2.1 Accessing C Functions in Separate Files) My directory /home/mainuser/test_sage contains test.c plus test.spyx and when I type : sage : load

[sage-support] Re: Problem to access C code

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, What version of Sage are you using? I tried this on my local machine and can't duplicate the error that you're getting. --Mike On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:44 PM, bourba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I would like to access external C code so I have exactly followed the example

[sage-support] Re: Problem to access C code

2008-03-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:44 PM, bourba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I would like to access external C code so I have exactly followed the example exposed in http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/tut/node51.html (5.2.1 Accessing C Functions in Separate Files) My directory

[sage-support] Re: Problem to access C code

2008-03-30 Thread bourba
On 30 mar, 22:37, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:44 PM, bourba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I would like to access external C code so I have exactly followed the example exposed in http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/tut/node51.html (5.2.1

[sage-support] Possible additions to interact

2008-03-30 Thread Neal Holtz
Hi, I've been playing a lot with interact recently -- I *really* like it. While attempting to develop a step-at-a-time example of Newton-Raphson, a couple of things came to mind. 1. What do you think about a control that saves state between interactions, but does not give you any visible

[sage-support] Re: Possible additions to interact

2008-03-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Neal Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been playing a lot with interact recently -- I *really* like it. While attempting to develop a step-at-a-time example of Newton-Raphson, a couple of things came to mind. 1. What do you think about a control

[sage-support] Re: Possible additions to interact

2008-03-30 Thread Neal Holtz
On Mar 30, 10:22 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Neal Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been playing a lot with interact recently -- I *really* like it. While attempting to develop a step-at-a-time example of Newton-Raphson, a

[sage-support] Re: Possible additions to interact

2008-03-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Neal Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 30, 10:22 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Neal Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been playing a lot with interact recently -- I *really* like it.

[sage-support] matrix inversion frustration

2008-03-30 Thread Marshall Hampton
Presumably this is a bug, but maybe I am missing something. this works ok: matrix(CC,[[2.09866271005796*I,2],[8*I,-4]]).inverse() but a slightly different matrix does not: matrix(CC,[[2.09866271005797*I,2],[8*I,-4]]).inverse() I am getting this a lot, it is not that hard to hit. Very

[sage-support] Re: matrix inversion frustration

2008-03-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Marshall Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can do what I want now using CDF instead of CC; the difference between these, and the advantages and disadvantages are quite unclear in my opinion from their docstrings. For anything related to any nontrivial