[sage-support] Re: symbol number radian degree

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Harris
Fair enough. A previous discussion led me to believe the goal was for more transparent rings. Have you considered supporting something like the following? cos(3).toreal() On May 21, 9:12 pm, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Harris wrote: > > How can I get sa

[sage-support] symbol number radian degree

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Harris
How can I get sage to print the numeric value of an expression such as, cos(3)? Also is there a way to switch between 'radian' and 'degree' modes like in some calculators? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To

[sage-support] Re: feature questions

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Harris
Do you have plans to ever support this? sum(x^i for i in range(1,n)).diff(x) On May 7, 10:09 am, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 10:11 am, Brian Harris wrote: > > > Thanks for the scatter plot pointers. For question 2, imagine > > some

[sage-support] 2.5 variables

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Harris
I don't understand this behavior: sage: (x^2).diff() 2*x sage: (xx^2).diff() ... : name 'xx' is not defined Is the idea that the variable names [a-z] have been predefined for convenience, but all others need to be explicitly defined before being used? Congratulations on the release, by the way!

[sage-support] Re: error when loading

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Harris
f.readline.clear_history() 1258 self.readline.read_history_file(self.shell.histfile) 1259 : 'module' object has no attribute 'clear_history' On May 8, 10:27 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/8/07, Brian Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

[sage-support] odd ? and ?? behavior

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Harris
Odd behavior here. All consecutive f? after I write f?? return the error below. sage: def f(x): : x : sage: f? Type: function Base Class: String Form: Namespace: Interactive File: /home/brharris/Desktop/sage-2.5-linux_32bit-debian- i686-Linux/ Defini

[sage-support] error when loading

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Harris
This happens when loading any file, ideas on why? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/sage-2.5-linux_32bit-debian-i686-Linux $ ./sage -- | SAGE Version 2.5, Release Date: 2007-05-08 | | Type notebook() for the GUI

[sage-support] Re: feature questions

2007-05-07 Thread Brian Harris
ve() method for finding function maxima? Brian On May 7, 10:09 am, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 10:11 am, Brian Harris wrote: > > > Thanks for the scatter plot pointers. For question 2, imagine > > something like: > > f(x) = 5 * SUM(

[sage-support] Re: feature questions

2007-05-07 Thread Brian Harris
Thanks for the scatter plot pointers. For question 2, imagine something like: f(x) = 5 * SUM(1 wrote: > I'm not completely sure what you mean for your question 2 - can you > give an example? > > For your first question, if you have a tuple of 2D data called 'data', > then in the notebook you can