Re: [sympy] GSoC Group Theory

2015-03-18 Thread Jennifer White
Thanks On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 5:01:32 PM UTC, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > The symbols in your example will need to be set as symbols('a b', > commutative=False). Otherwise b*a*b*a will be the same as a**2*b**2. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4

Re: [sympy] GSoC Group Theory

2015-03-18 Thread Jennifer White
showing the inputs and outputs of some of the functions you would > implement. See > https://asmeurersympy.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/advice-for-future-prospective-gsoc-students/ > > (number 4) for an example of what I mean. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:09 AM

Re: [sympy] GSoC Group Theory

2015-03-17 Thread Jennifer White
015 at 3:54:56 PM UTC, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > Those both sound like good ideas. I would look into what the > prerequisites for each are so you can see what is already implemented > and what needs to be implemented. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Jenn

Re: [sympy] How is this dealt with in SymPy?

2015-03-15 Thread Jennifer White
> Aaron Meurer > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Jason Moore > wrote: > > It typically should raise an error. You can do something like `raise > > ValueError('Wrong input!')`. > > > > > > Jason > > moorepants.info > &g

[sympy] How is this dealt with in SymPy?

2015-03-15 Thread Jennifer White
Hi, I'm new to contributing to SymPy and I'm just starting with fixing some simple little TODOs in the code. I'm currently working on some checks that are needed for polynomials (things like checking certain values are integers). Before I went ahead and changed things I wanted to check: what is

Re: [sympy] GSoC Group Theory

2015-03-10 Thread Jennifer White
; still have things to implement, so I would try to find some specific > thing that SymPy cannot do but other systems like GAP or Sage can, and > make a project out of that. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Jennifer White > wrote: > > Hi, > &g

[sympy] GSoC Group Theory

2015-03-06 Thread Jennifer White
Hi, I'm Jennifer, I'm a 3rd year Maths/Physics student at the University of Warwick UK. Last summer I interned at Google and now I'm looking to get involved in some Open Source work and potentially GSoC. SymPy caught my eye, and particular the suggestion of implementing a Group Theory module, b