[sage-support] Re: Please explain this wrong answer with implict multiplication....

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Seberino
I had it turned on but I guess it doesn't get triggered for x (x -1). Any way to change the behavior or does that require a patch to Sage? On Dec 15, 1:37 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 12/15/11 1:31 AM, Chris Seberino wrote: I know Sage has some issues with a variable

[sage-support] Re: Please explain this wrong answer with implict multiplication....

2011-12-15 Thread kcrisman
On Dec 15, 2:26 pm, Chris Seberino cseber...@gmail.com wrote: I had it turned on but I guess it doesn't get triggered for x (x -1). Even when you turn it on, the behavior is not uniform as the user might expect, though there is a logic. sage: implicit_multiplication(10) sage: (x) (x-1) (x -

[sage-support] Re: Please explain this wrong answer with implict multiplication....

2011-12-15 Thread Nils Bruin
On Dec 15, 11:26 am, Chris Seberino cseber...@gmail.com wrote: I had it turned on but I guess it doesn't get triggered for x (x -1). Any way to change the behavior or does that require a patch to Sage? You've already discussed that:

[sage-support] Re: Please explain this wrong answer with implict multiplication....

2011-12-14 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/15/11 1:31 AM, Chris Seberino wrote: I know Sage has some issues with a variable in front of parens when using implicit multiplication. Why did that make the first give the wrong answer when using implicit multiplication? How is sage interpreting it? sage: solve(3 + x (x-1)==5,x) [x ==