[sage-support] Rearranging text and output bug

2012-02-04 Thread D.C. Ernst
I just finished a worksheet for my linear algebra class and while working on it I had to start over 5 times because I was nailed with the rearranging text and output bug. I created the worksheet on my school's notebook server, which is running Sage 4.7. Each time here is what happened. I wou

[sage-support] Re: unable to create new user on Sage server

2012-02-01 Thread D.C. Ernst
Here's an update. I was trying to create the user "2560Instructor" which I couldn't, but "Instructor2560" is fine. Is the first excluded for a reason? Dana -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubsc

[sage-support] Re: cropped 3dplots

2012-01-31 Thread D.C. Ernst
I'm using Sage 4.7. I've attached screenshots (.jpeg) of both so you can see what I mean. -- 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 http://

[sage-support] cropped 3dplots

2012-01-31 Thread D.C. Ernst
If I plot var('x y z') A=implicit_plot3d(x+y+z==1,(x,-3,3),(y,-3,3),(z,-3,3)) B=implicit_plot3d(x+y+z==0,(x,-3,3),(y,-3,3),(z,-3,3),color='red') A+B You get what you expect. However, if I plot var('x y z') A=implicit_plot3d(x+y+z==1,(x,-3,3),(y,-3,3),(z,-3,3)) B=implicit_plot3d(x+y+z==0,(x,-3,3

[sage-support] unable to create new user on Sage server

2012-01-31 Thread D.C. Ernst
I'm currently attempting to create new users on my university's Sage server (sage.plymouth.edu). I've successfully done this in the past, but I am currently getting the following error message: "An error occurred rendering the requested page. More information is available in the server log." A

Re: [sage-support] random rearranging/duplicating/deleting of text and cells

2011-10-04 Thread D.C. Ernst
William Stein wrote: On Monday, October 3, 2011, D.C. Ernst <mailto:ernst.tr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I was just updating one my worksheets that I use as an introduction to > Sage for my calculus students and I got hit with the random > rearranging/duplicating/deleting of te

[sage-support] random rearranging/duplicating/deleting of text and cells

2011-10-03 Thread D.C. Ernst
I was just updating one my worksheets that I use as an introduction to Sage for my calculus students and I got hit with the random rearranging/duplicating/deleting of text blocks bug. I'm hoping you know what I mean. This seems to happen to me a lot. Anyway, someone once told me of a way to start

[sage-support] implicit_plot

2011-07-29 Thread D.C. Ernst
I was just messing around with implicit_plot and attempted the following, which is directly from the docstring: sage: x,y = var('x,y') sage: f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2 - 2 sage: implicit_plot(f, (-3, 3), (-3, 3),fill=True).show(aspect_ratio=1) However, I don't think this results in the intended plot (i.e

[sage-support] Re: Sage.app 4.6 on Mac

2010-11-02 Thread D.C. Ernst
> I just uploaded the Sage 4.6 .app dmg for 10.6 here: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/sage-4.6-10.6-i386-Darwin.dmg > > The md5 is 2e2687ee375aa91d0697b18bda6425f9 Excellent. Two questions: 1. What is the md5 for? I just clicked the link and the file started downloading. 2.

[sage-support] Re: Sage.app 4.6 on Mac

2010-11-02 Thread D.C. Ernst
Sorry to be late to the party, but is there a way to obtain the Sage.app for OSX other than following the instructions located at the following page? http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageMacApplication On Nov 2, 9:29 am, Juan Luis Varona wrote: > > The window you see is a basic Web browser included in S

[sage-support] Re: limits with piecewise functions

2010-09-22 Thread D.C. Ernst
Sorry, certainly, I shouldn't have picked x=2 for my limit (based on the definition of f), but it doesn't work even if I pick x=1.5. On Sep 22, 8:36 am, "D.C. Ernst" wrote: > Can anyone help me figure out how to use Sage to calculate limits for > piecewise function

[sage-support] limits with piecewise functions

2010-09-22 Thread D.C. Ernst
Can anyone help me figure out how to use Sage to calculate limits for piecewise functions? I've tried the obvious thing: f = Piecewise([[(0,1),x], [(1,2),x^2]], x) lim(f,x=2) However, this doesn't work. Thanks. Dana -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To uns

[sage-support] documentation for implicit_plot

2010-09-14 Thread D.C. Ernst
If I type the following into Sage (which is straight from the implicit_plot documentation), I get a black square: x,y=var('x,y') f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2 - 2 implicit_plot(f, (-3, 3), (-3, 3),fill=True).show(aspect_ratio=1) Of course, if you remove "fill=True", then everything works as expected. The d

[sage-support] Re: nested "for" statements?

2010-04-05 Thread D.C. Ernst
Great, thanks! This is the sort of thing I was trying, but I wasn't handling the indentation correctly. Perhaps y'all can help me with a related issue. I'd like my abstract algebra students to use Sage to do some computations involving the group of units mod n. I've been fiddling around myself

[sage-support] jmol and Firefox

2010-03-09 Thread D.C. Ernst
Recently (at least I think so), I have been having trouble using plot3d with Firefox. I get a message that says "Jmol script has terminated." I see that they have quite a few message posted in the past about Jmol issues. Is this current problem particular to me or there some larger issue? Thank

[sage-support] Re: subgroup lattice

2010-03-01 Thread D.C. Ernst
On Mar 1, 6:18 pm, Simon King wrote: > Hi David! > > On 1 Mrz., 20:08, David Joyner wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Dana Ernst wrote: > > > Is there a way to obtain a subgroup lattice for finite groups?  I defined > > > a finite group G and did G.? but didn't see anything that w

[sage-support] Re: subgroup lattice

2010-03-01 Thread D.C. Ernst
> One way: > > sage: G = SymmetricGroup(3) > sage: GG = gap(G) I'm guessing that GG doesn't mean anything special, but is just a name similar to G, and gap(G) is transforming G into a gap object. I'm not exactly clear when this sort of thing needs to be done, but I guess I'll learn over time. >

[sage-support] Re: quitting local sage notebook

2010-03-01 Thread D.C. Ernst
Thanks! On Mar 1, 3:00 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Robert Bradshaw > > wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Dana Ernst wrote: > > >> What's the proper way to quit a local sage notebook?  I've been signing > >> out of the web browser and then quitting terminal, w

[sage-support] Re: synchronizing local Sage worksheets

2010-02-26 Thread D.C. Ernst
> > I regularly work on three different computers.  What is the best way   > > to keep worksheets synchronized that were created using a local Sage   > > Notebook?  If I create a worksheet in on one computer, I've had to   > > remember to upload the worksheet to the other local Sage notebooks.   >

[sage-support] TinyMCE editor

2010-02-18 Thread D.C. Ernst
I had 28 students working in groups of 2--3 this morning on a worksheet that they all uploaded to their Sage Notebook accounts. One of the things that they were supposed to do was edit an HTML cell. Two of the groups were unable to do this. When they double-clicked the existing HTML cell, they we

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-17 Thread D.C. Ernst
First, thanks to everyone for their help and support. I appear to have a well-behaved worksheet. I took Jason's advice: I copied the source under the "edit" tab, pasted it into a new worksheet, and edited the source. I've saved it, opened it, downloaded it, uploaded it, etc. multiple times and e

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-16 Thread D.C. Ernst
I've copied the source under the "edit" tab and pasted it into a new worksheet. I'm in the process of returning things to the way they are supposed to be. I have two questions: 1. This (see below) is weird right? Greatest common divisor The command gcd(a,b) returns thehttp://demo.sagenb.org/ja

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-16 Thread D.C. Ernst
> > Do you want me to look at the version I sent you and spell out exactly > > what is screwed up? > > That *might* help track down the problem, if we can figure out that > something went wrong with the way cell ID numbers in the text matched up > with the ID numbers in the cell directories or some

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-16 Thread D.C. Ernst
> You can always go to the "Edit" tab, copy that text, rearrange it > however you see fit (the cells are between {{{ and }}}, while the > TinyMCE text is just html outside of the cells).  Then open up a new > worksheet and paste that into the "Edit" tab. > > In fact, my guess is that doing this cop

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-16 Thread D.C. Ernst
> Just refresh the page, then do "view source" and search for > "cell_id_list".  That will give the ordered list of cells by id > number. Were you suggesting that I do this or Jason or someone else? > To Dana -- you might want to try Firefox if possible -- that's what us > dev's use the most, so

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-16 Thread D.C. Ernst
First, thanks to everyone for helping out and exploring. > Interestingly, Dana's worksheet has a "cells/-1" directory---none of my > other worksheets in my small collection on my local notebook have a > cells/-1 directory. This wasn't anything I did on purpose. > Dana: What exactly do you mean b

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-15 Thread D.C. Ernst
> What version of Sage are you using? Whatever sagenb.org is running. I've been doing everything on there to get as close an experience as my students will get. Dana -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-suppor

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-15 Thread D.C. Ernst
> If you end up coming back in a day or two, maybe you could answer some > questions: > >   (1) Were you entirely using the public sage notebook servers that I > host (e.g., sagenb.org)? Yes. > (2) Exactly what web browser and operating system were you using? > Anything special about your configu

[sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-15 Thread D.C. Ernst
> It wasn't even clear the OP was using TinyMCE.  He writes: " I typed > up the whole worksheet, it looked great, then saved it,"  I'm not sure > what that means. Yes, I'm using the TinyMCE in the notebook. I thought I had a fix, which involved moving the worksheet to the demo server. All was pr

[sage-support] Re: More syntax questions

2010-02-15 Thread D.C. Ernst
Thanks for all the responses. (The friendly and helpful group of users is one of the awesome things about Sage.) Dana -- 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,

Re: [sage-support] Re: cookies and Sage Notebook

2010-02-12 Thread D.C. Ernst
On Feb 12, 11:45 am, Dana Ernst wrote: > > I should have added that there are some other testing notebook > > servers, e.g.,http://demo.sagenb.orgthat are barely used.  If > > sagenb.org is slow you can use those. > > Can we use the demo server consistently?  Or, should I only point students > th

[sage-support] Re: cookies and Sage Notebook

2010-02-12 Thread D.C. Ernst
I had my Calculus II students working on an Introduction to Sage lab today. We didn't have access to a computer lab today, so a few of them brought laptops. I had them working in groups and the first thing they were supposed to do was create a sagenb account. One student would create an account,

[sage-support] Re: cookies and Sage Notebook

2010-02-11 Thread D.C. Ernst
The "cookies incident" happened to me 4--5 times today in my office and once at home just now. I'm using Safari and running OS X 10.6 on both computers. If I delete all cookies with "sage" in them, all returns to normal, but it's kind of a pain. I haven't tried Jason's "shift/alt+refresh." --

[sage-support] error trying to obtain Sage via bdist

2010-01-05 Thread D.C. Ernst
I'm running Sage 4.3 on OSX 10.6 on both my office computer and my home computer. Yesterday, I used the following commands (obtained from kcrisman) to obtain a copy of Sage that I could run by just clicking on the pretty purple icon: export SAGE_APP_BUNDLE = "yes" export SAGE_APP_DMG = "yes" ./sa

[sage-support] "spinning indicator" while using Sage via bdist

2010-01-05 Thread D.C. Ernst
Greetings! I'm a new Sage user running Sage 4.3 on OSX 10.6. Yesterday, I used the following commands (obtained from kcrisman) to obtain a copy of Sage that I could run by just clicking on the pretty purple icon: export SAGE_APP_BUNDLE = "yes" export SAGE_APP_DMG = "yes" ./sage -bdist MySage Aft