[sage-support] Editing html on notebooks

2008-11-30 Thread Flavio Coelho
Hi, I would like to know if there is plans to allow direct editing of the html on a notebook without having to go to the "Edit" tab and entering html there. I was thinking it would be nice to have a simple javascript html editor that would come up when one clicks on text outside eveluation boxes

[sage-support] Re: Editing html on notebooks

2008-11-30 Thread Marshall Hampton
There has been some work on this recently, by Jason Grout, on adding the tinyMCE editor to the notebook. The idea is that a shift-click will create a html block that can be edited by tinyMCE. Unfortunately at the moment that feature addition is somewhat intertangled with a refactoring of various

[sage-support] Re: definition of a function with the help of its derivative

2008-11-30 Thread pieter
Dear Simon, Thanks for your answer. What I want is for a linear combination X(t):=p(t)*y1(t) + q(t)*y2(t) (p and q are known functions) to construct a new second-order differential equation for X(t) from the orgininal system. For a second-order system this can easily be done by hand. I have, ho

[sage-support] Sylow 3-subgroups

2008-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo I am newbie is there are in sage any command for Sylow p-subgroups ? with my best regards --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more optio

[sage-support] Re: Sylow 3-subgroups

2008-11-30 Thread David Joyner
Yes, sage: G = PGL(2,3) sage: G.sylow_subgroup(3) Permutation Group with generators [(2,4,3)] Type sage: G.sylow_subgroup? for more details. +++ On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hallo > I am newbie

[sage-support] Re: hardware factors that affects the speed of running SAGE

2008-11-30 Thread Martin Albrecht
> Here's another example: > 64-bit: > sage: time a = random_matrix(ZZ,200).determinant() > CPU times: user 2.74 s, sys: 0.01 s, total: 2.75 s > > 32-bit: > sage: time a = random_matrix(ZZ,200).determinant() > CPU times: user 0.74 s, sys: 0.04 s, total: 0.78 s > > Here, surprisingly, 64-bit is WAY

[sage-support] Re: hardware factors that affects the speed of running SAGE

2008-11-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Here's another example: >> 64-bit: >> sage: time a = random_matrix(ZZ,200).determinant() >> CPU times: user 2.74 s, sys: 0.01 s, total: 2.75 s >> >> 32-bit: >> sage: time a = random_matrix(ZZ,200).determinant() >> CP

[sage-support] Re: definition of a function with the help of its derivative

2008-11-30 Thread David Joyner
It's been awhile since I used Maple and I still don't understand your question. Is it possible to copy+paste a Maple session in and then just ask "can this be done in sage"? On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:21 AM, pieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Simon, > > Thanks for your answer. > > What I

[sage-support] Re: hardware factors that affects the speed of running SAGE

2008-11-30 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 30, 12:40 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Martin Albrecht > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Here's another example: > >> 64-bit: > >> sage: time a = random_matrix(ZZ,200).determinant() > >> CPU times: user 2.74 s, sys: 0.01 s, tot

[sage-support] Re: hardware factors that affects the speed of running SAGE

2008-11-30 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Sunday 30 November 2008, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Martin Albrecht > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Here's another example: > >> 64-bit: > >> sage: time a = random_matrix(ZZ,200).determinant() > >> CPU times: user 2.74 s, sys: 0.01 s, total: 2.75 s > >> > >> 32

[sage-support] Re: definition of a function with the help of its derivative

2008-11-30 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:41 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been awhile since I used Maple and I still don't understand your > question. > Is it possible to copy+paste a Maple session in and then just ask > "can this be done in sage"? To clarify my own question, one can do th

[sage-support] Re: Sylow 3-subgroups

2008-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks for your help I tried this command but i got this error 'SpecialLinearGroup_finite_field' object has no attribute 'sylow_subgroup' s=SL(2,FiniteField(5)) s.sylow_subgroup(2) On 30 Nov., 21:32, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, > > sage: G = PGL(2,3) > sage: G.sylow_subgroup

[sage-support] Re: hardware factors that affects the speed of running SAGE

2008-11-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:50 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 30, 12:40 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Martin Albrecht >> >> >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Here's another example: >> >> 64-bit: >> >> sage: time

[sage-support] Re: Sylow 3-subgroups

2008-11-30 Thread David Joyner
Unfortunately, at the moment it has to be a permutation group. Here is one way: sage: F = GF(5) sage: S = SL(2,5); S.gens() [ [2 0] [0 3], [4 1] [4 0] ] sage: gens = [matrix(F,2,[2,0, 0, 3]), matrix(F,2, [4,1, 4,0])] sage: G = MatrixGroup(gens); G Matrix group over Finite Field of size 5 with 2

[sage-support] Re: number field question

2008-11-30 Thread Alex Raichev
> It would be helpful if you could give a more concrete example, e.g., a session > where you have some elements, and finally want to do something with them. That's good idea, William. Let me back up to and change my question to a more fundamental one. How does one compute in QQbar with Sage? Fo

[sage-support] Groups, Rings, Fields?

2008-11-30 Thread Tim Lahey
Hi, I'm an engineer by training, so my knowledge of mathematics is very applied. A lot of things in Sage deal with Groups, Rings, and Fields so I'd like to broaden and improve my mathematics knowledge. Could someone suggest a good introductory reference (and possibly an intermediate one) so I can

[sage-support] Re: Sylow 3-subgroups

2008-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thank you so much for your help . On 30 Nov., 22:24, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, at the moment it has to be a permutation group. Here is one > way: > > sage: F = GF(5) > sage: S = SL(2,5); S.gens() > > [ > [2 0] > [0 3], > [4 1] > [4 0] > ] > sage: gens = [matrix(F

[sage-support] Re: Groups, Rings, Fields?

2008-11-30 Thread David Joyner
A couple of sources over the web: (a) http://wdjoyner.com/teach/book/ and (a bit harder and for group theory only) (b) http://www.opensourcemath.org/books/gaglione-gp-thry/ (pdf: http://www.opensourcemath.org/books/gaglione-gp-thry.pdf) might fit the bill. Next level up from (a) might be (c) A Fir

[sage-support] Re: Groups, Rings, Fields?

2008-11-30 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 30, 2008, at 4:44 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > A couple of sources over the web: > (a) http://wdjoyner.com/teach/book/ > and (a bit harder and for group theory only) > (b) http://www.opensourcemath.org/books/gaglione-gp-thry/ > (pdf: http://www.opensourcemath.org/books/gaglione-gp-thry.pdf

[sage-support] Re: [sage-announce] Sage 3.2 released

2008-11-30 Thread Jim Clark
I am puzzled by one of the binaries: http://sage.math.washington.edu/ sage/osx/powerpc/sage-3.2-G5-PowerMacintosh-Darwin.dmg Does the "G5" in the name mean it's specific for the G5 processor? Usually the binaries are named according to the OSX version -- is this one for OSX 10.4 or 10.5? Th

[sage-support] Re: Groups, Rings, Fields?

2008-11-30 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:44 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A couple of sources over the web: > (a) http://wdjoyner.com/teach/book/ > and (a bit harder and for group theory only) > (b) http://www.opensourcemath.org/books/gaglione-gp-thry/ > (pdf: http://www.opensourcemath.org/books

[sage-support] Re: Sage 3.2 released

2008-11-30 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 30, 1:58 pm, Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jim, > I am puzzled by one of the binaries:http://sage.math.washington.edu/ > sage/osx/powerpc/sage-3.2-G5-PowerMacintosh-Darwin.dmg > > Does the "G5" in the name mean it's specific for the G5 processor?   > Usually the binaries are nam

[sage-support] Re: Sage 3.2 released

2008-11-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 30, 1:58 pm, Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > >> I am puzzled by one of the binaries:http://sage.math.washington.edu/ >> sage/osx/powerpc/sage-3.2-G5-PowerMacintosh-Darwin.dmg >> >> Does the "G5" in t

[sage-support] Re: Sage 3.2 released

2008-11-30 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 30, 3:36 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, mabshoff > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 30, 1:58 pm, Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > >> I am puzzled by one of the binaries:http://sage.math.washington.edu/ >

[sage-support] Re: Sage 3.2 released

2008-11-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:43 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 30, 3:36 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, mabshoff >> >> >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Nov 30, 1:58 pm, Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > H

[sage-support] Re: Sage 3.2 released

2008-11-30 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 30, 3:49 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:43 PM, mabshoff > > In light of all of this, i.e. the names of binaries on sagemath.org > > are inconsistent I would suggest we either add an option to create > > binaries with canonical names (i.e. usi

[sage-support] Re: hardware factors that affects the speed of running SAGE

2008-11-30 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Nov 30, 2008, at 12:37 , Martin Albrecht wrote: > >> Here's another example: >> 64-bit: >> sage: time a = random_matrix(ZZ,200).determinant() >> CPU times: user 2.74 s, sys: 0.01 s, total: 2.75 s >> >> 32-bit: >> sage: time a = random_matrix(ZZ,200).determinant() >> CPU times: user 0.74 s, sy

[sage-support] Fwd: A sage question

2008-11-30 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, Perhaps someone can give a better answer to the question below? I haven't explored enough with random matrices and finite fields in Sage to competently answer the question. -- Forwarded message -- From: Alasdair McAndrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: A sage question

2008-11-30 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Nov 30, 2008, at 17:34 , Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Perhaps someone can give a better answer to the question below? I > haven't explored enough with random matrices and finite fields in Sage > to competently answer the question. MS = MatrixSpace(GF(5), 4, 4) M = MS.random_element()

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: A sage question

2008-11-30 Thread Craig Citro
You can just use the random_matrix command: sage: random_matrix(GF(5), 4, 4) [3 0 4 3] [4 1 1 4] [2 3 3 4] [4 4 1 0] -cc On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Perhaps someone can give a better answer to the question below? I > haven't explored

[sage-support] Re: JsMath issue

2008-11-30 Thread Stan Schymanski
Just search for "jsMath failed to set up" in the sage-support forum and you find out what to do (need to install the tex fonts from jsMath). Many people had this problem and I believe that the solution is being incorporated into the documentation. Good luck! Stan On Nov 29, 8:02 pm, "M. Yurko"