[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-06 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello William, > > That seems to work great, except for the problem of computing the > hermitian conjugate of the unitary matrix u, > since > > sage: K. = QQ[sqrt(-1), sqrt(2)] > sage: j.conjugate() > 0 > > Can one define a conjug

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-06 Thread Rafael
On Dec 6, 8:17 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Jason Grout > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jan Groenewald wrote: > >> Hi > > >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:22:11AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: > http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/and inclu

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-05 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jan Groenewald wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:22:11AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. >>> Nice. >>> If you use: >>> R. = QQ.extension(x^2+1

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-05 Thread Jason Grout
Jan Groenewald wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:22:11AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: >>> http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. >> Nice. >> If you use: >> R. = QQ.extension(x^2+1) >> then the imaginary number prints as "j" instead of "I", which might make >>

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-05 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:22:11AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: >> > http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. >> Nice. >> If you use: >> R. = QQ.extension(x^2+1) >> then the imaginary numb

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-05 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:22:11AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: > > http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. > Nice. > If you use: > R. = QQ.extension(x^2+1) > then the imaginary number prints as "j" instead of "I", which might make > more sense. I would like to unde

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:47:22AM -0800, Mike Hansen wrote: >> I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put some improvements up at >> http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. >> h6.eigenvalues() took 0.11 se

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:47:22AM -0800, Mike Hansen wrote: >>> I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put some improvements up at >>> http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included s

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:47:22AM -0800, Mike Hansen wrote: >> I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put some improvements up at >> http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. >> h6.e

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:55:37AM -0800, mabshoff wrote: > Can you provide us with the examples that crash? We would certainly be > interested in fixing them. Yes, I will definitely send bug reports to sage-devel in future. Le me understand a bit of what we are doing though so as to not was

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi, On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:47:22AM -0800, Mike Hansen wrote: > I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put some improvements up at > http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/94/ and included some timings there. > h6.eigenvalues() took 0.11 seconds to run on my machine. It looks > like everything you'

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Mike Hansen wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If anyone has the time to look at and discuss some of these issues >> that will be much appreciated, and assist in the growth of using SAGE >> to teach in this institute! > > I don't hav

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Jason Grout
Mike Hansen wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If anyone has the time to look at and discuss some of these issues >> that will be much appreciated, and assist in the growth of using SAGE >> to teach in this institute! > > I don't hav

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 4, 1:47 am, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Hi Jan, > Someone is using SAGE in teaching a Quantum Mechanics course > at the institute where I work, and we want to make sure we > are starting off on the right foot. Cool. Mike answered your other questions, so: > 3. The c

[sage-support] Re: First use of SAGE, eigen* and maxima compute time

2008-12-04 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Jan, On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone has the time to look at and discuss some of these issues > that will be much appreciated, and assist in the growth of using SAGE > to teach in this institute! I don't have a whole lot of time, but I put