[sage-support] Re: Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-14 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jason Grout wrote: > R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: >> Would you recommend that I compile from the source tarball instead? > > > Personally, that's what I recommend. Sage development moves at a nice > pace, and you're already missing out on a lot of ver

[sage-support] Re: Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jason Grout wrote: > I'm not sure what is going on here. Version 3.0.5 is from quite a while > ago, at least in Sage terms. The calculation works great in the current > version of Sage (version 3.4, just released yesterday, as tested on > http://www.sagenb.org.) Did you say that this was fr

[sage-support] Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, Pardon for the double-posting since I am unsure which list is more appropriate. In section 2.4.1 of the Sage Tutorial, there is a non-linear equation example from Jason Grout that I tried out, but it failed. Details follow. My version is built from the Ubuntu jaunty package source

[sage-support] How do I close a function definition?

2009-03-11 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Folks, I am running SAGE Version 3.0.5, Release Date: 2008-07-11 compiled from the Ubuntu package source package sagemath_3.0.5dfsg-2ubuntu1 on my AMD 64 PC running a 2.6.27-11-generic Linux kernel with Kubuntu 8.04 and KDE 4.2. I am going through the tutorial and have just found a snag. In