Re: [sage-support] integrate(sec(t)*tan(t),t,0,pi/3), why does definite integral of trig functions give error?

2009-12-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Ben Woodruff wrote: > Hi all. This is my first post to the discussions groups I've been > following for the last 4 months. I used Sage in my first semester > calculus class this last semester, and plan to move every class I can > over to Sage during the next few years. Giving the students somethi

[sage-support] find_root - precision

2009-12-24 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
Dear support is it possible to tell find_root that I am interested on say first 50 decimal places? The documentation of find_root does not help in this problem. Is it possible to define precision? Thanks. Robert -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscrib

[sage-support] Re: integrate(sec(t)*tan(t),t,0,pi/3), why does definite integral of trig functions give error?

2009-12-24 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
On 24 pro, 07:10, Ben Woodruff wrote: > Hi all. This is my first post to the discussions groups I've been > following for the last 4 months.  I used Sage in my first semester > calculus class this last semester, and plan to move every class I can > over to Sage during the next few years.  Giving

[sage-support] Re: integrate(sec(t)*tan(t),t,0,pi/3), why does definite integral of trig functions give error?

2009-12-24 Thread Jason Grout
Ben Woodruff wrote: > Hi all. This is my first post to the discussions groups I've been > following for the last 4 months. I used Sage in my first semester > calculus class this last semester, and plan to move every class I can > over to Sage during the next few years. Giving the students somethi

[sage-support] NSF education grant proposal

2009-12-24 Thread Jason Grout
A small group has been working on an education-related grant proposal to the US National Science Foundation to support work making it easier to use Sage in undergraduate courses. The description of the CCLI Type 2 program is at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09529/nsf09529.html A draft copy

[sage-support] Incomplete but fast multivariate factorisation - possible?

2009-12-24 Thread Simon King
Hi! Suppose you have a multivariate polynomial p, and you want to know one non-constant factor of it. You don't need a complete factorisation, and on the opposite you don't need a proof of irreducibility. You could do p.factor(proof=False). But this may still take quite a long time, since apparen

[sage-support] Re: Running Sage remotely via a web browser: How?

2009-12-24 Thread John Cremona
The r is python's decorator code for a raw string: see here http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#strings John On Dec 24, 4:38 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > > wrote: > >> rvaug...@gmail.com wrote:

[sage-support] Re: Symbolic convolution usage Sage

2009-12-24 Thread Robert Dodier
On Dec 22, 4:08 pm, Maxim wrote: > I'm trying to do something which I haven't seen any examples so far : > symbolic convolution. I know I can use lists or Piecewise defined > functions to do a convolution, but here my interest is the symbolic > solution. Well, sorry for tooting my own horn but t

[sage-support] Re: integrate(sec(t)*tan(t),t,0,pi/3), why does definite integral of trig functions give error?

2009-12-24 Thread Ben Woodruff
On Dec 24, 8:13 am, Jason Grout wrote: Thanks for the reply. Here are some concerns. > 1. Give the assumption it wants.  It mentions this in the error message > (right above the question). Students in first semester calculus will not appreciate having to add the "assume" command. It will turn

Re: [sage-support] find_root - precision

2009-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:52 AM, ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: > Dear support > > is it possible to tell find_root that I am interested on say first 50 > decimal places? No. > The documentation of find_root does not help in this > problem. Is it possible to define precision? Thanks. Looking at find_r

Re: [sage-support] Incomplete but fast multivariate factorisation - possible?

2009-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Simon King wrote: > Hi! > > Suppose you have a multivariate polynomial p, and you want to know one > non-constant factor of it. You don't need a complete factorisation, > and on the opposite you don't need a proof of irreducibility. > > You could do p.factor(proof=

Re: [sage-support] integrate(sec(t)*tan(t),t,0,pi/3), why does definite integral of trig functions give error?

2009-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Ben Woodruff wrote: > Hi all. This is my first post to the discussions groups I've been > following for the last 4 months.  I used Sage in my first semester > calculus class this last semester, and plan to move every class I can > over to Sage during the next few

[sage-support] Re: integrate(sec(t)*tan(t),t,0,pi/3), why does definite integral of trig functions give error?

2009-12-24 Thread Jason Grout
Ben Woodruff wrote: > > On Dec 24, 8:13 am, Jason Grout wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Here are some concerns. > >> 1. Give the assumption it wants. It mentions this in the error message >> (right above the question). > > Students in first semester calculus will not appreciate having to add >

Re: [sage-support] Sage's OSCOS page

2009-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, David Joyner wrote: > This email was sent to my work address. I guess other developers got it too. I didn't. > In any case, it seems to contain a number of mistakes about Sage. > If others agree with this, has anyone put thought into correcting it? > I tried to

Re: [sage-support] NSF education grant proposal

2009-12-24 Thread William Stein
Hi, I just want to add that disregarding all the formal stuff below, the proposal is really well written and is an interesting read about where to go next with some of the educational aspects of the Sage project. -- William On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > A small group ha

[sage-support] installation error with openSuse 11.2

2009-12-24 Thread james
Dear sage support, I got the following error while compiling sga source (sga-4.2.1.tar) with a suse11.2 system on a HP computer sga-4.2.1. ... gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-suse-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/ usr/share/man --li

[sage-support] Saving work through VirtualBox?

2009-12-24 Thread Ravi Kulkarni
Hello, I am using Sage through the Sun VirtualBox on Windows XP. I have two questions: 1) How do I save my work to the local hard disk when I am working from the sage: prompt? 2) I am unable to use the Sage notebook. Sage tells me it is unable to connect to localhost: 8000. Actually, it di