[sage-support] Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] PDE and Finite Element methods

2008-04-07 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I did. This is the code developed by people at Sim

[sage-support] Re: PDE and Finite Element methods

2008-04-07 Thread David Joyner
Hector told me (in a separate email) about DOLFIN http://www.fenics.org/wiki/FEniCS_Project which is built on numpy. Although I had trouble installing it, I'm wondering if anyone else on this list has been able to try it out? Cross-posting to sage-devel. On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Hector Vi

[sage-support] Re: sage reference manual addition?

2008-04-05 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 05 April 2008, David Joyner wrote: > > I tried following the README in the devel/doc/ref section and am > > having latex compilation problems. > > First, in mwrank somewhe

[sage-support] Re: sage reference manual addition?

2008-04-05 Thread David Joyner
xes work in the reference manula using build_pdf is where I'm stuck. On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:58 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2:51 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > Hi: > > I won

[sage-support] sage reference manual addition?

2008-04-05 Thread David Joyner
e. Is there any chance they could be added? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.googl

[sage-support] Re: Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-31 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:24 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 30, 5:07 pm, dwb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using a Mac Book running OS X.4.11. I downloaded sage-2.10.3- > > osx10.4-intel-i386-Darwin.dmg, then followed the instructions in both > > the readme file

[sage-support] Re: Inter-disciplinary applications of Sage (biopython, etc.)

2008-03-28 Thread David Joyner
I don't if you call coding theory "other than math" but there are developers who are not in math departments (eg, CJ, a GUAVA developer is in the "Computing, Communications & Electronics" dept). On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm giving a

[sage-support] Re: Tutorial difficulties

2008-03-28 Thread David Joyner
onzero? > > Looking at the maxima documentation, there appears to be a way to > tell maxima maxima.assume('i+1 <> 0'), but this syntax seems to send > sage into the ozone. > > Thanks in advance for help offered. > Jim Clark > > > On Mar 21, 2008, at

[sage-support] Re: using optional packages

2008-03-26 Thread David Joyner
I don't use windows but the way you are trying is definitely wrong. In linux you just type "sage -i gap_packages-4.4.10_4" and it downloads it (assuming you have internet) and installs it for you. It also loads the GAP packages into the saved GAP workspace. Therefore, once it is installed, all of

[sage-support] Re: polynomial object and symoblic computations

2008-03-25 Thread David Joyner
It might work if you try coercing f = B[0] first into R2. = PolynomialRing(CC, 2, 'xy') then applying factor or whatever to R2(f). I haven't tried it with your problem but that general idea has worked for me in similar situations. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:18 AM, continuum121 <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-support] Re: Histograms

2008-03-24 Thread David Joyner
One way is, for example, sage: J = range(3) sage: A = [ZZ(i^2)+1 for i in J] sage: s = IndexedSequence(A,J) sage: s.plot_histogram() using http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main/file/211b127eab5d/sage/gsl/dft.py I think there is another way but I don't remember the details. I think this question h

[sage-support] Re: Error related with singular, gap and resultant

2008-03-08 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Team, > > now i can reproduce a very similar thing even on sage.math! > > - > > sage: R. = QQ[] > sage: f = x^3 + x + 1; g = x^3 - x - 1 > sage: r = f.resultant(g)

[sage-support] Re: Set question

2008-03-07 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:35 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi: > > Is there a reason why Set only applies to hashable elements? > > Set is implement

[sage-support] Set question

2008-03-07 Thread David Joyner
nite(): /mnt/drive_hda1/sagefiles/sage-2.10.3.rc2/matrix_modn_dense.pyx in sage.matrix.matrix_modn_dense.Matrix_modn_dense.__hash__() /mnt/drive_hda1/sagefiles/sage-2.10.3.rc2/matrix_dense.pyx in sage.matrix.matrix_dense.Matrix_dense._hash() : mutable matrices are unhashable -

[sage-support] Re: Error related with singular, gap and resultant

2008-03-06 Thread David Joyner
Just an observation - both Scientific Linux and OpenSUSE are rpm-based. I wonder if this can be duplicated on a redhat machine. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:35 PM, parombouts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Simon King wrote: > > Dear William, > > > > On Mar 5, 11:51 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL

[sage-support] Re: Groebner bases error?

2008-03-03 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mar 4, 1:12 am, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't this the same problem as 2358? Same source probably. > > > > -M.Hampton > > Hi Marshall, > > it is either tightly related or the same

[sage-support] Groebner bases error?

2008-03-03 Thread David Joyner
a, b, c, d over Rational Field ^ : invalid syntax If this is indeed an error, should I make a new trac ticket or has it already been reported? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroup

[sage-support] there must be some way to do this in SAGE [class fields]

2008-02-21 Thread David Joyner
A forwarded email question about SAGE. Can anyone help? > I have been led to believe that what I need to do is the following class > field calculations. For > Crespo's (1997) tetrahedral example f(x) = x^4-2x^3+2x^2-2x+3 the associated > modular form of > weight one is F=q-iq^3-q^5-iq^11 +iq^15

[sage-support] Re: contour_plot bug

2008-02-20 Thread David Joyner
I can verify this on an intel mac *and* that sage: contour_plot(y-1,(-10,10),(-10,10),fill=False,contours=2,plot_points=100) sage: contour_plot(y-1,(-10,10),(-10,10),fill=False,contours=1,plot_points=100) yield the same plot. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Kate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

[sage-support] Re: desolve

2008-02-18 Thread David Joyner
The DE is not linear. The docstring (type ?desolve) says: "Solves a 1st or 2nd order linear ODE via maxima. " On Feb 18, 2008 10:03 PM, Alex Ghitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I'm trying the following: > > ~sage: t = var('

[sage-support] Re: System of Equations Question

2008-02-18 Thread David Joyner
On Feb 18, 2008 9:09 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2008 6:04 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 18, 2008 8:29 PM, Ben Goodrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 18, 3:58 p

[sage-support] Re: System of Equations Question

2008-02-18 Thread David Joyner
On Feb 18, 2008 8:29 PM, Ben Goodrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 3:58 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe Sage simply calls Maxima for the solution. Since you > > obviously know the > > most about the proble

[sage-support] Re: System of Equations Question

2008-02-18 Thread David Joyner
I believe Sage simply calls Maxima for the solution. Since you obviously know the most about the problem, perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to determine that it is Sage and not Maxima that is at fault. Perhaps you could see if the solution is obtained in Maxima? (On the command line of Sage

[sage-support] Re: More Extreme Newbie Development Questions

2008-02-18 Thread David Joyner
On Feb 17, 2008 4:47 PM, dean moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Took me awhile to respond. Distractions. > > Last generated a few responses, replying to all under a new subject line > (last thread was getting clogged), in no particular order, > > > David Joyner: &g

[sage-support] Re: Bessel argument order

2008-02-16 Thread David Joyner
On Feb 16, 2008 5:46 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 16, 11:38 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi David, > > > Micheal suggested replacing all "#random's" by "..." and > >

[sage-support] Re: Extreme Newbie Development Questions

2008-02-16 Thread David Joyner
On Feb 16, 2008 5:34 PM, dean moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, there seems an interest in us relatively new folk contributing code for > SAGE. > Admirable. More than I get from M*cr*s*ft. Or Apple. Thanks. I mean it. > > Surfing Wikipedia, I came upon the animated graph at > < http://en

[sage-support] Re: Bessel argument order

2008-02-16 Thread David Joyner
orm: > Namespace: Interactive > Docstring: > y = yv(x1,x2) y=yv(v,z) returns the Bessel function of the second > kind of real > order v at complex z. > sage: scipy.special.yv(int(2),complex(0,1)) > (1.03440456978-0.135747669767j) How is this converted to sage? > > IMP

[sage-support] Re: Another possible bug in parametric_plot/show

2008-02-16 Thread David Joyner
Sorry, I don't use the notebook (command-line only), but if you could paste the code you are trying to run I can look at it and see if I can spot something. On Feb 16, 2008 5:07 AM, bill.p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a brief note to re-raise this problem. No-one seems interested... > a p

[sage-support] Re: Odd behaviour of parametric_plot

2008-02-16 Thread David Joyner
I don't know how to fix it so that parametric_plot works. However, the following workaround at least gives you a plot: sage: a = RR(1729^(1/3)) sage: f1 = lambda x: RR(real((1729 - x^3)^(1/3))) sage: f2 = lambda x: RR(real(-(-1729 + x^3)^(1/3))) sage: L1 = [(x,f1(x)) for x in srange(-a+0.1,-15,0.

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:26 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > How exactly do you close a google group? > > > > I just changed the list settings so that only "managers can post", which > is just > > you and me. That should be good enough. > > We should also edit the

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:08 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2008 2:58 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2008 2:31 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I agree that two lists are better than four - sage-support and sage- > > devel should be enough. > > > > I strongly agree. I would like

[sage-support] Re: animation question

2008-02-14 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:34 PM, dino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I posted this to the sage-newbie list, but it never generated a > response. I understand this list has > more people "in the know." > > We have the following snippet: > > arm= animate([arrow((0,0),(cos(i), sin(i)), >

[sage-support] Re: Signum function?

2008-02-04 Thread David Joyner
I think it is pretty easy to make one using piecewise. On Feb 4, 2008 9:19 AM, vgermrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it would be nice to have a signum-function (i.e. > sign(x)=abs(x)/x or sign(x)=cmp(x,0) ) in sage. > There is none, right? > > Of course it should work on integers, floa

[sage-support] Re: [sage-devel] GAP packages install error

2008-01-30 Thread David Joyner
I assume you did sage -i gap_packages-4.4.10_3 I tested this on an intell macbook and a linux box running ubuntu fiesty fawn and it worked fine on both. First, it looks like the GAP packages were installed fine but nauty wasn't compiled (which is distributed with grape, a graph theory package). I

[sage-support] Re: The idea of Sage running on a calculator-sized device (update)

2008-01-26 Thread David Joyner
On Jan 26, 2008 4:01 AM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A while ago we discussed where Sage would be a few years in the future > and one idea that was discussed was Sage running inside of a > calculator-sized device. These two articles indicate that this will > be feasible in a relative

[sage-support] old SAGE link at MSRI

2008-01-24 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Just curious if there a way to update the SAGE link at http://www.msri.org/about/computing/mathdocs - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL

[sage-support] Re: CartesianProduct

2008-01-24 Thread David Joyner
Doesn't tuples http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/ref/module-sage.combinat.combinat.html#l2h-3041 or Tuples http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/ref/module-sage.combinat.tuple.html#l2h-4417 do what you want? On Jan 24, 2008 5:13 AM, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Sage team, > > how can

[sage-support] Re: Bar graphs

2008-01-21 Thread David Joyner
This question was just asked by someone else on sage-newbie. In gsl/dft.py there is a plot_histrogram function. Other people suggested other options in the htread though. On Jan 21, 2008 10:43 AM, David Kohel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apologies if this is double-sent; I thought I sent it al

[sage-support] Re: problem with plot3d on ubuntu 64bit

2008-01-16 Thread David Joyner
On Jan 15, 2008 9:20 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I have an old 64 bit machine with 64bit ubuntu fiesty fawn loaded on it. > I just noticed a problem with plot3d on it (plot3d runs fine on my > intel macbook): > > In sage 2.9.3: > sage: x

[sage-support] problem with plot3d on ubuntu 64bit

2008-01-15 Thread David Joyner
2,(-1,1),(-1,1)).show() ## long time but nothing happens sage: p = plot3d(x^2-y^2,(-1,1),(-1,1)) sage: p ## long time but nothing happens sage: type(p) sage: show(p)## nothing happens sage: I'll try running sage -testall on both of these to see if something pops up. - David Joyner -

[sage-support] Re: GAP small groups library missing

2008-01-15 Thread David Joyner
On Jan 15, 2008 2:51 AM, esdc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > I was trying to run a GAP session inside sage, with gap_console() and > when the Smallgroups library is needed, I obtain an error: > > Error, the Small Groups library is required but not installed called > from > ( ) called fr

[sage-support] Re: Computations with Lie algebras?

2008-01-14 Thread David Joyner
be one > possible interface model if we decide to wrap this functionality from > GAP, LiE, or elsewhere. I vaguely remember that Willem de Graaf wrote that too. Could easily be wrong though... I'm ccing him, so he can chime in and correct me if he wants. > > Kiran > > On Jan 14,

[sage-support] Re: Computations with Lie algebras?

2008-01-14 Thread David Joyner
On Jan 14, 2008 9:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does SAGE currently include any functionality for manipulating Lie > algebras? (I only need reductive Lie algebras, because I'm using them > to study compact Lie groups.) For instance, I'd like to be able to > manipulate irr

[sage-support] Re: [sage-newbie] Re: integration of piecewise-defined functions

2008-01-14 Thread David Joyner
At the moment, (a) "piecewise" is only set up for piecewise polynomials, (b) the "integrate" command is "integral". So, for your function (which is piecewise polynomial), this should work: sage: f1a = lambda x: -x+1; f1b = lambda x: x+1 sage: f2a = lambda x : -(x - 2) - 1; f2b = lambda x : (x - 2

[sage-support] Re: bug in parametric plot?

2008-01-07 Thread David Joyner
Done: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1718 On Jan 7, 2008 5:07 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 7, 2008 1:08 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi: > > > > sage: parametric_plot([t, t + RR(pi)], -2, 2,

[sage-support] bug in parametric plot?

2008-01-07 Thread David Joyner
ect has no attribute 'number_of_arguments' Is this a bug? If so, should I create a trac ticket? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL

[sage-support] Re: pylab examples [was Small correction for "Constructions ..."]

2008-01-02 Thread David Joyner
On Jan 2, 2008 1:57 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2008 9:47 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > (1) I get the same failure after hg_sage.pull(). > > > > (2) I ssh'd into sage.math and tried the command

[sage-support] Re: pylab examples [was Small correction for "Constructions ..."]

2008-01-02 Thread David Joyner
Traceback (most recent call last) ... On Jan 2, 2008 3:09 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 28, 2007 8:08 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just pasted that in exactly in Sage at the command line and it worked > >

[sage-support] Re: matrix vs. vector differences?

2008-01-01 Thread David Joyner
The decode bug has been submitted as http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1651 I'm not sure that you mean by "...and the function documentation...". On Dec 30, 2007 4:15 PM, harald schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 30, 9:13 pm, "David Joyne

[sage-support] Re: matrix vs. vector differences?

2007-12-30 Thread David Joyner
This is a bug in decode. Thanks for reporting it. I'll add it to trac and fix it as soon as I can. On Dec 30, 2007 1:34 PM, harald schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a fundamental difference between a matrix and a vector? If > so, there has to be some documentation about it. (or it'

[sage-support] bug in plot of 2^x?

2007-12-30 Thread David Joyner
first.' --- Traceback (most recent call last) ... returns an error. Seems like a bug. Should I create a track ticket for this? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, sen

[sage-support] Re: hg_doc question

2007-12-28 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 28, 2007 3:36 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 2007 6:54 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi: > > > > Suppose you follow the instructions in the programming > > manual to edit one of t

[sage-support] Re: pylab examples [was Small correction for "Constructions ..."]

2007-12-28 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 28, 2007 4:38 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 2007 8:35 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 27, 2007 12:45 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 26, 2007

[sage-support] hg_doc question

2007-12-27 Thread David Joyner
e simplest way to "start from scratch" (short of starting over again on a completely different copy of sage)? With src patches, you simply can start a new clone. That trick does not seem to work for hg_doc. - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to th

[sage-support] Re: pylab examples [was Small correction for "Constructions ..."]

2007-12-27 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 27, 2007 12:45 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 26, 2007 10:19 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm thinking of adding matplotlib and jmol to the history and completely > > rewriting the graphics section. Thoughts? &

[sage-support] Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: I just finished reading through tut.pdf...

2007-12-27 Thread David Joyner
Added to trac 1544. Will be fixed in next version of tutorial. On Dec 8, 2007 5:12 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Haydn Huntley > Date: Dec 8, 2007 2:00 PM > Subject: I just finished reading through tut.pdf... > To: [EMAIL PROTECT

[sage-support] Re: [sage-newbie] Odd interactions in Sage Tutorial

2007-12-27 Thread David Joyner
I am working today and tomorrow on fixing all your typos and possibly adding a few more examples to the tutorial. Thanks very much for your reports. ++ On Dec 17, 2007 12:23 PM, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I'm looking at the Sage Tutorial, file node3

[sage-support] Re: kernel function documentation is misleading

2007-12-26 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 26, 2007 11:10 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2007 8:51 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I had made this a ticket a few days ago: > > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1587 > > Thanks. I've updated the ticket based on the above discussion,

[sage-support] Re: bug/missing feature in plot?

2007-12-25 Thread David Joyner
e table of contents). On Dec 25, 2007 11:40 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2007 9:18 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi: > > > > (a) I'm not sure if this is a bug or something missing, but it seems >

[sage-support] bug/missing feature in plot?

2007-12-25 Thread David Joyner
uired (b) In fact, what I'd like to do is plot in SAGE what calculus teachers draw frequently on the board: not just one branch of arccsc but rather several of them: ie, the plot of y=csc(x) over say -2\pi to 2*\pi, flipped about the 45^o line. Is this easy to do? - David Joyner Can anyone se

[sage-support] Re: OLPC and sage

2007-12-19 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 19, 2007 8:03 PM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Ted Kosan wrote: > > >> I tried to connect to the online server on sagemath.org > >> but the laptop apparently could not achieve a secure connection. > >> I wonder if a SAGE binary can be run from a

[sage-support] OLPC and sage

2007-12-19 Thread David Joyner
apparently could not achieve a secure connection. I wonder if a SAGE binary can be run from an SD card? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-support] Re: Sage-2.9

2007-12-17 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 17, 2007 7:31 AM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mabshoff wrote: > > > > > > On Dec 17, 12:42 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> I did a sage -upgrade to 2.9 and had no serious problems but

[sage-support] Re: Sage-2.9

2007-12-17 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 17, 2007 6:56 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 17, 12:42 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2007 11:19 PM, mabshoff > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, &

[sage-support] Re: Sage Tutorial typos

2007-12-17 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 17, 2007 6:55 AM, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Professor Joyner, > I've just discovered sage and am greatly impressed. As an enthusiastic > elderly amateur, I can't claim any great knowledge in the field, but I > have noticed a couple of typos in the tutorial. For example n

[sage-support] Re: Sage-2.9

2007-12-17 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 16, 2007 11:19 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I ran sage "-testall -long" and sage "-testall -optional" on the 2.9 > release on sage.math. While -long passed with flying colors, -optional > had some failures in tut.tex since I didn't install some optional GAP > datab

[sage-support] Re: Sage-2.9

2007-12-16 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 16, 2007 11:04 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Sage 2.9 has been released. It is available at > >http://sagemath.org/download.html > > This is a *major* new release, with a huge number of tickets > closed, and the additional of both R and the ATLAS BL

[sage-support] Re: SAGE v2.9 - make pdf - style file too long error

2007-12-16 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 16, 2007 9:31 PM, gri6507 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to SAGE and to this support group so I hope I am asking the > right question in the right area. I am trying to package SAGE v2.9 for > PCLinuxOS (an up-and-coming Linux distribution). My first question is > actually a problem

[sage-support] minor bug in time?

2007-12-15 Thread David Joyner
me 4-2 CPU times: user 0.00 s, sys: 0.00 s, total: 0.00 s Wall time: 0.00 2 - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options,

[sage-support] odd names for reference manual sections?

2007-12-13 Thread David Joyner
I'd mention it in case no one noticed it. - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at

[sage-support] Re: auto-convert mathcad files to SAGE

2007-12-12 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 12, 2007 4:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm new to SAGE, but using it with growing enthusiasm :-) > Question: > I have a number of MathCad filed (*.mcd) that I'd like to convert to > SAGE. > Is there a way of doing this automatically? As far as I kn

[sage-support] Re: Bessel argument order

2007-12-12 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 12, 2007 3:20 AM, pgdoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The description of Bessel_K functions in the Sage Cookbook is > confusing about the order of the arguments. > http://sagemath.org/doc/html/const/node96.html > Here's what it says: > > >Here's an example using SAGE's interface to pari'

[sage-support] Re: problem building SAGE in linux

2007-12-11 Thread David Joyner
You didn't say what linux distribution you have. Is it debian or ubuntu? If building does not work, you can try one of the binaries at http://www.sagemath.org/SAGEbin/linux/ On Dec 11, 2007 11:48 AM, Joseph Hufnagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Sir, > I had to reinstall Linux on my

[sage-support] Re: patch creation problem?

2007-12-10 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 10, 2007 9:25 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2007 5:44 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi: > > It seems like I saw this reported already but can't find it now. > > I'm thinking I'm do

[sage-support] Re: [sage-devel] bug in 2.8.15 (somewhere in sage.calculus?)

2007-12-10 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 10, 2007 8:29 PM, Jonathan Bober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. I just opened ticket #1457 (see below) > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1457 > > The following is hopefully pretty self explanatory: > > --- > > The following took place on a

[sage-support] patch creation problem?

2007-12-10 Thread David Joyner
Hi: It seems like I saw this reported already but can't find it now. I'm thinking I'm doing something stupid, but can't figure it out and was wondering if someone on this list can see the problem. My usual procedure for creating a patch is as follows: 1. Take a file I want to edit, say linear_co

[sage-support] Re: gaussian_binomial()

2007-12-10 Thread David Joyner
,k,q): > r""" > Return the gaussian binomial > $$ >\binom{n}{k}_q = \frac{(1-q^n)(1-q^{n-1})\cdots (1-q^{n-k+1})} > {(1-q)(1-q^2)\cdots (1-q^k)}. > $$ > > EXAMPLES: > sage: gaussian_binomial(5

[sage-support] Re: Computing discrete logarithm

2007-12-04 Thread David Joyner
Maybe printing the values makes it clearer? sage: R = Integers(125) sage: g = R.multiplicative_generator(); g 2 sage: b = g^3; b 8 sage: a = b^17; a 123 sage: a.log(b) 17 So, 123 = 8^(17) mod 125: sage: R(123).log(8) 17 sage: R(123) == R(8)^(17) True On Dec 4, 2007 5:59 AM, Timothy Clemans <[

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread David Joyner
e, and now we're working on SAGE; I'd like to teach > the class exclusively in SAGE one day. > > regards > john perry > > On Nov 30, 9:00 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure what the cause of the error is but

[sage-support] Re: Nasty bug in Calculus?

2007-11-30 Thread David Joyner
I'm not sure what the cause of the error is but, FYI, some Riemann sum stuff is already implemented in piecewise.py. On Nov 30, 2007 9:41 AM, john_perry_usm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > One of my students was writing a procedure to implement a Midpoint > Riemann Sum in SAGE. The proced

[sage-support] Re: What is the reason for abbreviating Singular output?

2007-11-28 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 28, 2007 3:40 AM, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Martin, > > > It's a buglet but I believe this is handled in Singular this way, not sure > > though. > > It seems you are right! > Singular does: > > ring r = 7,(x(1..2)),dp; > > ideal I = x(1)^7*x(2)-x(1)*x(2)^7, > > x(1)^12

[sage-support] Re: using Singular's invariant_ring

2007-11-25 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 25, 2007 4:29 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 25, 2007 3:27 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > @Martin Albrecht: > > > - Is there a reasonable way to fix this in the interface? > > > > Hi, the 'trivial' way to fix it, is to implement a Python

[sage-support] using Singular's invariant_ring

2007-11-24 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Suppose a finite matrix group G generated by 3x3 matrices A1, A2, ..., Ar acts on the polynomial ring QQ[x,y,z]. Singular has a command which computes a basis of invariants. I'm stuck trying to run them in SAGE. The commands at http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Manual/latest/sing_1083.htm#SEC1142

[sage-support] Re: bug in permutations?

2007-11-24 Thread David Joyner
Done. A patch was linked to on the trac ticket http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1254 On Oct 28, 2007 1:20 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/28/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please: no printed "deprecated" warnings. Anything would be better > > than

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-11-20 Thread David Joyner
No, but sage: t = var("t") sage: a = lambda t: 0.004*(8*exp(-300*t) - 8*exp(-1200*t))*72*exp(-300*t) - 0.1 sage: attach '/home/wdj/sagestuff/sage-2.8.9.rc1/examples/calculus/newton_raphson.sage' sage: newton_raphson(a,0.01,0.01,0.1) 0.0205789829857519 works okay. (This newton_raphso

[sage-support] Re: bug in eigenspaces?

2007-11-20 Thread David Joyner
Done http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1219 On Nov 20, 2007 2:22 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 20, 2007 11:14 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi: > > > > Something funny is going on: > > &g

[sage-support] bug in eigenspaces?

2007-11-20 Thread David Joyner
with eigenspaces at all ... Should I create a trac item under linear algebra or ??? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more op

[sage-support] Re: [sage-newbie] curve length

2007-11-20 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 20, 2007 8:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as i know, length of curve, defined as > f(x) > from a to b (a <= x <= b) is > L = integral from a to b of sqrt(1 + df(x)^2)dx > where df(x) is diff(f,x) > > for f(x) = y = x^2 , a=0, b=2 it should be > df(x)=2x > sqr

[sage-support] Re: Permutations from gap.

2007-11-12 Thread David Joyner
Reported to trac and fixed (I think). http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1155 The link to the hg patch is in the ticket. ++ On 11/5/07, Carlo Hämäläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm doing some work with groups. Using gap.Image() I can get a > permutati

[sage-support] hg_sage.commit error

2007-11-12 Thread David Joyner
ticket for this or am I doing something wrong? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://g

[sage-support] Fwd: Fwd: [sage-support] Issue with interface to Gap in 2.8.12

2007-11-09 Thread David Joyner
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Linton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 9, 2007 3:49 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: [sage-support] Issue with interface to Gap in 2.8.12 To: David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Distinction between Print and View is the issue here. Viw trun

[sage-support] Re: Permutations from gap.

2007-11-06 Thread David Joyner
Thank you for your report. Note sage: x = "(1,2)(3,7)(4,6)(5,8)" sage: PermutationGroup([x]) Permutation Group with generators [(1,2)(3,7)(4,6)(5,8)] works fine. The result of gap.Image is an instance of the GapElement class, so it looks like it is a syntax issue for such elements. I can take a

[sage-support] Re: building sage on ubuntu

2007-11-04 Thread David Joyner
On 11/4/07, Joseph Hufnagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Sir: >Thank you for the instructions to building Sage on Ubuntu Linux. The > compilation took some time, but it was well worth it. Happy to help. > > Thanks again, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:12:10

[sage-support] Re:

2007-11-01 Thread David Joyner
By coincidence, I recently installed sage from source on a fresh ubuntu install and the instructions on http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/inst/node5.html worked for me. In other words, if you type sudo apt-get install gcc-4.2-base # or the latest version available sudo apt-get install make

[sage-support] Re: segment fault in Singular-- return error?

2007-11-01 Thread David Joyner
On 11/1/07, Ursula Whitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (I tried to post about my problem once before, so my apologies if this > comes through twice.) > > I'm receiving a segmentation error when I try to run a procedure in > the Singular console in Sage. I've previously tested this procedure >

[sage-support] Re: undergraduate linear algebra and SAGE

2007-10-31 Thread David Joyner
On 10/30/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My postdoc mentor is being flown to China to give a presentation on > teaching undergraduate linear algebra in the U.S. She is emphasizing > technology in teaching. She will talk about Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, > and calculators in te

[sage-support] Re: bug in permutations?

2007-10-28 Thread David Joyner
utations(A.rows()).list() > [[(1, 0), (1, 0)]] > > --Mike > > > On 10/27/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi: > > Either a bug in combinat.py's permutations, or an indication that > > it needs to be rewritten. (permutations is a GAP w

[sage-support] bug in permutations?

2007-10-27 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Either a bug in combinat.py's permutations, or an indication that it needs to be rewritten. (permutations is a GAP wrapper which I might have written, so should probably fix ...) - David Joyner sage: MS = MatrixSpace(QQ,2,2) sage: A = MS([1,2,3,4]) sage: permutations(A.rows()) [[(3, 4

[sage-support] features of set, Set ?

2007-10-27 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Is the following a feature or a bug? sage: set([1,2]) set([1, 2]) sage: set([[1],[2]]) --- Traceback (most recent call last) /Users/wdj/sagefiles/sage-2.8.2/ in () : list objects are unhashable (Set also

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