Re: [sage-support] Re: adding noise

2010-04-02 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:41 PM, G B wrote: Thanks for the detailed response, Simon. Please understand that I'm not being critical of Sage-- quite the contrary, I'm excited about what it might offer me once I master it. I think you touch on one key to the problem-- I'm not a mathematician, I'

Re: [sage-support] Re: adding noise

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:41 PM, G B wrote: > Thanks for the detailed response, Simon. Please understand that I'm not > being critical of Sage-- quite the contrary, I'm excited about what it might > offer me once I master it. > > I think you touch on one key to the problem-- I'm not a mathematic

Re: [sage-support] Re: adding noise

2010-04-02 Thread G B
Thanks for the detailed response, Simon. Please understand that I'm not being critical of Sage-- quite the contrary, I'm excited about what it might offer me once I master it. I think you touch on one key to the problem-- I'm not a mathematician, I'm an engineer. While most of the world would ce

Re: [sage-support] Re: Print only outputs?

2010-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Alec Mihailovs wrote: > On Apr 2, 1:19 am, Jason Grout wrote: >> Also, a quick hack to hide all input cells (except the one after the one >> that you evaluate this command in) is: >> >> jsmath("""$('.cell_input').hide();""") >> >> This is definitely not official, b

[sage-support] Re: Error: LaTeX does not seem to be installed.

2010-04-02 Thread Oscar
Chris, If you are using Mac OS X you should try getting (downloading) MacTeX (http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/). I have been using that distribution, which works very smoothly in a Mac, and the TeX editor TeXShop (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ and included in MacTeX). I have not had to do a

[sage-support] Re: adding noise

2010-04-02 Thread Jason Grout
On 04/02/2010 07:42 PM, Simon King wrote: Hi! On 3 Apr., 00:30, G B wrote: That did it. I found the section in the tutorial explaining the different interpretations of functions more fully, and while I don't quite have my head around it, I think I understand the problem at a basic level to be

[sage-support] Re: adding noise

2010-04-02 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 3 Apr., 00:30, G B wrote: > That did it.  I found the section in the tutorial explaining the > different interpretations of functions more fully, and while I don't > quite have my head around it, I think I understand the problem at a > basic level to be that my f(x) is a symbolic expressio

[sage-support] Re: adding noise

2010-04-02 Thread G B
Ok, I'll take that as an admonition to not give up too soon. =) It does feel like a toolset that would give me a lot of capability if I can only learn to control it... Thanks again for the help. Cheers-- Greg On Apr 2, 4:31 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM, G B wro

Re: [sage-support] Re: adding noise

2010-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM, G B wrote: > That did it.  I found the section in the tutorial explaining the > different interpretations of functions more fully, and while I don't > quite have my head around it, I think I understand the problem at a > basic level to be that my f(x) is a symbolic

[sage-support] Re: adding noise

2010-04-02 Thread G B
That did it. I found the section in the tutorial explaining the different interpretations of functions more fully, and while I don't quite have my head around it, I think I understand the problem at a basic level to be that my f(x) is a symbolic expression, but get_random_element() is a Python fun

[sage-support] Re: Print only outputs?

2010-04-02 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Apr 2, 1:19 am, Jason Grout wrote: > Also, a quick hack to hide all input cells (except the one after the one > that you evaluate this command in) is: > > jsmath("""$('.cell_input').hide();""") > > This is definitely not official, but it works with the current notebook. >   It doesn't affect th

[sage-support] Re: Is there an efficient method of producing indexed variables?

2010-04-02 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Apr 2, 1:45 pm, Franco Saliola wrote: > sage: a = SymbolicVariables('a') > ... > Here is a very simple implementation of SymbolicVariables. > >     class SymbolicVariables(SageObject): >         def __init__(self, prefix='x'): >             self._prefix = prefix >         def __getitem__(self,

Re: [sage-support] Re: sage 4.3.4 or 4.3.5 on solaris sparc

2010-04-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
adrian wrote: We did not compile sage, but used the one that was pre-compiled. The error is --- ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/local/ src/sage-4.3.4-Solaris-sun4u-SunOS/local/lib//libntl.so: symbol _ZSt16__ostream_insertIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basi

Re: [sage-support] Installation Guide - german translation

2010-04-02 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi, On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM, bb wrote: > I have done a german translation of the Installation guide. I did some and > changes to meet some german peculiarities and some minor extensions. I > actually commited the text to a professional translator for checking and > proofreading. It will be

[sage-support] Installation Guide - german translation

2010-04-02 Thread bb
I have done a german translation of the Installation guide. I did some and changes to meet some german peculiarities and some minor extensions. I actually commited the text to a professional translator for checking and proofreading. It will be (hopefully) finished about the weekend of the next

[sage-support] Re: Potential Security Hole -- sh (shell) in Notebook

2010-04-02 Thread Kakaz
On 2 Kwi, 03:23, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Apr 1, 2010, at 6:04 PM, TianWei wrote: > > > The "sh" option in the sage notebook allows anyone to access the > > command-line shell on the sage server. This grants users access to any > > directory on the server, including configuration settings, et

[sage-support] Re: sage 4.3.4 or 4.3.5 on solaris sparc

2010-04-02 Thread adrian
We did not compile sage, but used the one that was pre-compiled. The error is --- ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/local/ src/sage-4.3.4-Solaris-sun4u-SunOS/local/lib//libntl.so: symbol _ZSt16__ostream_insertIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIT_T0_E

Re: [sage-support] Is there an efficient method of producing indexed variables?

2010-04-02 Thread Franco Saliola
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:36 PM, scott.h wrote: > > > >> It seems like this should be simple but for the life of me I can't >> figure out how to do it. > > Here I'm taking a guess at what you really want to do. See the > following Sag

Re: [sage-support] solve - algebraic solution?

2010-04-02 Thread bb
William Stein schrieb: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:11 AM, bb wrote: Why does Sage not solve the equation? (The quadratic equation is just a test.) sage: x,y,a,b = var('x, y, a, b') sage: solve([x - 2*y == a, x + 3*y == b],[x,y]); sage: solve([x^2 + a*x + b == 0],x) [x == -1/2*a - 1/2*sqrt(a

Re: [sage-support] solve - algebraic solution?

2010-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:11 AM, bb wrote: > Why does Sage not solve the equation? (The quadratic equation is just a > test.) > > sage: x,y,a,b = var('x, y, a, b') > sage:  solve([x - 2*y == a,  x + 3*y == b],[x,y]); > sage: solve([x^2 + a*x + b == 0],x) > [x == -1/2*a - 1/2*sqrt(a^2 - 4*b), x ==

[sage-support] solve - algebraic solution?

2010-04-02 Thread bb
Why does Sage not solve the equation? (The quadratic equation is just a test.) sage: x,y,a,b = var('x, y, a, b') sage: solve([x - 2*y == a, x + 3*y == b],[x,y]); sage: solve([x^2 + a*x + b == 0],x) [x == -1/2*a - 1/2*sqrt(a^2 - 4*b), x == -1/2*a + 1/2*sqrt(a^2 - 4*b)] sage: solve([x - 2*y - a

Re: [sage-support] Error: LaTeX does not seem to be installed.

2010-04-02 Thread Chris Kees
Dan, Thanks. It does find the command, the output is below. I "fixed" the installation last night, but I don't know precisely what fixed it. I made softlinks in $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin, but that didn't appear to fix it. Then I just ran 'make' in $SAGE_ROOT and it worked. I did find some stal

Re: [sage-support] sage 4.3.4 or 4.3.5 on solaris sparc

2010-04-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
adrian wrote: Hi, in the math department here at Montana State, we were trying to install sage on Sparc. There are some reports that sage 4.3.4 could be installed on Solaris/Sparc, and we got a binary following the thread http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/62a920b

Re: [sage-support] Error: LaTeX does not seem to be installed.

2010-04-02 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 at 09:24PM -0700, Chris Kees wrote: > In the notebook I get errors evaluating %latex entries. I get: > > Error: LaTeX does not seem to be installed. Download it from ctan.org > and try again. None > > I'm a new sage user running "Sage Version 4.3.1, Release Date: > 2010-01-20"