Re: [sage-support] two suggestions from JMM presentation

2010-01-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:31 PM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: I was wondering if you will post the presentation to your website?  I saw that you had posted other talks on you site - very nice! Thanks. Yes, I have posted the presentation to my website here: http://wstein.org/talks/ See the first

[sage-support] Re: coercion bug + help please

2010-01-15 Thread Pierre
i'm afraid i don't know how tickets work. Incidentally, i'll be attending sage-days in marseille next month, is this an occasion to learn about tickets and all that ? as for the bug, i've been using x.complex_embedding() instead, which doesn't crash. How reliable can its output be, though ? On

[sage-support] Re: Large strings and pexpect

2010-01-15 Thread Simon King
Hi William, On Jan 15, 7:49 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That sounds like a bug. Sure. But I don't see a clear strategy to hunt it down. One would like to have a file containing a ring and a polynomial that one reads into Singular, then let Singular print the polynomial, and show

Re: [sage-support] Re: Large strings and pexpect

2010-01-15 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: Hi William, On Jan 15, 7:49 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That sounds like a bug. Sure. But I don't see a clear strategy to hunt it down. One would like to have a file containing a ring and a polynomial

[sage-support] Re: Large strings and pexpect

2010-01-15 Thread Simon King
Hi William, On Jan 15, 9:39 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you improve the singular pexpect interface so it can write output to a file that Sage reads in, then see if that helps? For four reasons: - Because I don't know how Singular can write into a file without appending

[sage-support] Re: downloading several worksheets in zip file

2010-01-15 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
On 15 led, 08:44, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:34 PM, ma...@mendelu.cz ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: Dear sage-support I had a look at sources of sage notebook and I have seen, that there are functions which can be used to download more sws worksheets in one

[sage-support] Re: Setting up a sage server securely for students' use

2010-01-15 Thread Byungchul Cha
Okay. I think I just finished all the steps I wrote in my original post. Overall, it was not terribly difficult, but, it was not completely straightforward, either. FYI, my linux skill is not very sophisticated, but, not too bad compared to, say, my colleagues in my department, whatever that

[sage-support] error in documentation Construction

2010-01-15 Thread Ichnich
Hi everyone, I just checked out one of first page in the Constructions page: http://www.sagemath.org.nyud.net/doc/constructions/calculus.html Just after the first example Differentiation sage: var('x k w') (x, k, w) sage: f = x^3 * e^(k*x) * sin(w*x); f x^3*e^(k*x)*sin(w*x) sage: f.diff(x)

Re: [sage-support] error in documentation Construction

2010-01-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Ichnich wrote: Hi everyone, I just checked out one of first page in the Constructions page: http://www.sagemath.org.nyud.net/doc/constructions/calculus.html Just after the first example Differentiation sage: var('x k w') (x, k, w) sage: f = x^3 * e^(k*x) *

[sage-support] (x-3)/2--Maxima

2010-01-15 Thread Mikie
Is there anyway to get Maxima to do (x-3)/2 to produce 1/2x-3/2? Thanx -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at

[sage-support] Re: (x-3)/2--Maxima

2010-01-15 Thread Mikie
I figured it out. Put the denom and num into varibles, then expanded the expression with 1/denom times the num. On Jan 15, 1:46 pm, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Is there anyway to get Maxima to do (x-3)/2 to produce 1/2x-3/2? Thanx -- To post to this group, send email to

[sage-support] Re: (x-3)/2--Maxima

2010-01-15 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
In Maxima? A:(x-3)/2 pfeformat:true; expand(A); Robert On 15 led, 21:46, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Is there anyway to get Maxima to do (x-3)/2 to produce 1/2x-3/2? Thanx -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[sage-support] Re: Using the simple server API

2010-01-15 Thread Stefan
William, Do you know if anyone is actively maintaining this feature? I see that it would be quite useful for various applications, so I'd like to see it get resolved in one of the upcoming releases. I'd be happy to chip away at the problem, but I'm relatively new to the Sage community and might

[sage-support] non conventional displays of sage objects

2010-01-15 Thread Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona
When sage has to display a variable whose name is a greek letter it shows the corresponding greek letter. For example sage: show(var('alpha,beta,gamma')) will show the simbols for this letters, instead of (alpha,beta,gamma) This sort of association is what I think sage should use with the

[sage-support] Re: non conventional displays of sage objects

2010-01-15 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 15, 5:57 pm, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona algebraicame...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] A related issue is the imposibility of using variable name 'lambda' due to it being a python keyword. That variable name is very often needed. But then, if the variable name-display association option was

Re: [sage-support] non conventional displays of sage objects

2010-01-15 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona algebraicame...@gmail.com wrote: When sage has to display a variable whose name is a greek letter it shows the corresponding greek letter. For example sage: show(var('alpha,beta,gamma')) will show the simbols for this letters,