In fairness, "Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab."
What do Maple and Mathematica do regarding having a median top level command? Also, if you want to argue that users should explicitly import everything... that's an interesting an valuable challenge to support and your modularization work Matthias is of course critical to that. However, it doesn't at all preclude the default "sage" environment still being a viable alternative to Maple and Mathematica. On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:51 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you consider numpy an obscure library, it may be that your syllabus needs > updating > > > On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 10:52:19 AM UTC-8 mat...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Mean, median and mode are now deprecated. E.g.: >> >> >median([1,2,3]) >> 2 :1: DeprecationWarning: sage.stats.basic_stats.median is deprecated; use >> numpy.median or numpy.nanmedian instead See https://trac.sagemath.org/29662 >> for details. >> >> But shouldn't these basic functions have some default functionality? Is the >> intention really to make Sage users call basic functions from libraries. >> Students (mostly) don't know what numpy is and makes using mean, median and >> mode weirdly obscure - like calling combinatorics functions in Mathematica. >> For me (using Sage for classroom teaching) one attraction of Sage is that >> most basic things that a student would use have names that might be in their >> textbooks... >> >> Will Calculus be deprecated too? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/c7ec42b4-a966-47b6-a538-7bb943a50437n%40googlegroups.com. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/CACLE5GDesZtYHCtZcLO80QF8iKE20TSYJjQS3N20msAPat_DCQ%40mail.gmail.com.
