[sage-support] Re: How to set global variables for maxima in sage?

2007-09-02 Thread William Stein
On 9/2/07, Nikos Apostolakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm interested in changing SAGE to use tlimswitch:true by default. > > However, before I do that, I would like to know why Maxima sets > > tlimswitch to false by default? Does tlimswitch:true give incorrect > > results in lots of interes

[sage-support] Re: How to set global variables for maxima in sage?

2007-09-02 Thread Nikos Apostolakis
"William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9/1/07, Nikos Apostolakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However: >> >> In [3]: maxima.eval('tlimswitch:true') >> Out[3]: 'true' >> >> In [35]: limit( sqrt(x^2+x+1)+x, x = -oo) >> [...] Error maxima asks questions >> >> From what I understand this i

[sage-support] Re: How to set global variables for maxima in sage?

2007-09-01 Thread William Stein
On 9/1/07, Nikos Apostolakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, in maxima 5.13 (which is included in SAGE-2.8.3), maxima > > insists on interacting when doing that limit even with timeswitch:true, > ^^^ > > This is a typo.

[sage-support] Re: How to set global variables for maxima in sage?

2007-09-01 Thread Nikos Apostolakis
"William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9/1/07, Nikos Apostolakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello group, >> >> how can we pass global variables to the maxima process that sage is >> using? For example in maxima I can do the following >> >> (%i25) tlimswitch : true; >> (%o25)

[sage-support] Re: How to set global variables for maxima in sage?

2007-09-01 Thread William Stein
On 9/1/07, Nikos Apostolakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello group, > > how can we pass global variables to the maxima process that sage is > using? For example in maxima I can do the following > > (%i25) tlimswitch : true; > (%o25) true > (%i26) limit(sqrt(x^2