RE: [Axiom-mail] What is gazonk*.c

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Page
) installed What version of Axiom are you using? I think Axiom compiled with newer versions of gcl should not have this problem. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom

RE: [Axiom-mail] Windows: where's the documentation?

2006-10-29 Thread Bill Page
available from the Start menu. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

RE: [Axiom-mail] Windows: where's the documentation?

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Page
hard. I'll look at it. Yes. That would me nice. :-) Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

RE: [Axiom-mail] How to expand a fraction (like Maple does with'expand')?

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Page
. In (2) above, the reason that the first term is not expanded further is that Axiom does not have any domain (as far as I know) that has ue r1 ue r1 - + - r2 r3 as separate terms. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail

RE: [Axiom-mail] how to calculate Ricci tensor from a metric tensor?

2007-03-26 Thread Bill Page
On March 26, 2007 6:07 PM Ondrej Certik wrote; ... Bill Page wrote: Yes, isn't that the way things go in computer algebra - everyone seems to write their own? :-( That's a pity. If what you really want to do is physics, then it's a trap that many people have fallen into. It took me

Re: [Axiom-mail] Help in axiom

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Page
algorthms (such as Martin Rubey's Guess package), but that it would go even further, and have greater reach in the mathematical community, with more comprehensive, and more easily accessible help. +1. I agree 100%. Thank you for your comments. Regards, Bill Page

RE: [Axiom-mail] Another beginner's question: Lagrange interpolation

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Page
and other Axiom publications. If you have any questions or comments about this please continue. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

RE: [Axiom-mail] Another beginner's question: Lagrange interpolation

2007-04-13 Thread Bill Page
seriously, it is certainly necessary to start programming in SPAD or Aldor. In any case, I hope you stay with us, Me too. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

RE: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Page
defintions of coerce, + and *. SPAD tells me: Cannot pretend ... I don't understand that. Perhaps you can see a way around it? Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

RE: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Page
have noticed before that Spad seems to treat this differently than what I always expect but you seem to write it naturally. :-) Now I can retire to sleep in peace. Cheers, Bill Page ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http

RE: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Page
type is merely given by: Rep := Union(MkInt(Integer), MkAdd(%,%), MkMul(%,%)) The definitions of MkAdd and MkMul as named types (domains) is sufficient to avoid the problem that this form of 'Union' is not disjunctive. I have more to say later. We're listening. :-) Regards, Bill Page

Re: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-08 Thread Bill Page
contributes greatly to this. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

Re: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-08 Thread Bill Page
Quoting Ralf Hemmecke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Bill Page wrote: Ralf, these are just general comments about your approach and aren't intended to be particularly critical. Although I felt that it was the most critical reaction on one of my mails that I have ever experienced from you, I know

Re: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-09 Thread Bill Page
other interface. That is a step to avoid a lot of (if not all) mutual recursion in the construction of the Axiom library. I still think that is wishful thinking. :-( Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http

Re: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-09 Thread Bill Page
Quoting Ralf Hemmecke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 05/09/2007 10:02 AM, Bill Page wrote: ... MkInt is *not* a function which when given an Integer returns something of type Expr. It is type *constructor*, that is, when given 'Int' MkInt returns a subtype of Expr. Before you criticize... I

Re: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-09 Thread Bill Page
. Right? (You see, I am really just trying to convince myself by convincing you... :-) Thank you for persisting in this discussion. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom

Re: [Axiom-mail] Spad and inductive types

2007-05-09 Thread Bill Page
Quoting Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 9 May 2007, Bill Page wrote: [...] | ... in Haskell, by a kind of convenient abuse of notation | (or polymorphism if you wish) 'MkInt' also denotes a | function | | MkInt: Int - MkInt Int | | that creates an object of type

RE: [Axiom-mail] Enumeration

2007-05-26 Thread Bill Page
Type: Enumeration(red,green,blue) (4) - -- Maybe there is something a little trashed in the databases? Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

Re: [Axiom-mail] A slow summation

2007-06-13 Thread Bill Page
MHz P3 running Windows XP and axiom-0.1.4.) Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

Re: [Axiom-mail] A slow summation

2007-06-13 Thread Bill Page
On 6/13/07, Bill Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turns out that Axiom's list data type is very slow and almost all the time is spent building the list. You can avoid this by preallocating an arrary of sufficient size. E.g. (2) - for i in 1..2 repeat rlist(i-1):=1.0/i

Re: [Axiom-mail] A slow summation

2007-06-13 Thread Bill Page
they provide good examples for your students? Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

Re: [Axiom-mail] Axiom under windows - curious error

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Page
that is certain to no longer exist and then complain ... :-) Let me know if this helps. Regards, Bill Page. On 6/14/07, Alasdair McAndrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed Axiom 0.1.4 on an oldish machine running Win 2000 Pro. It starts and works fine, but when I switch users and try to start

Re: [Axiom-mail] AXIOM documentation

2007-06-20 Thread Bill Page
to review them in a little more depth later. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

Re: [Axiom-mail] Elliptic curve factoring

2007-07-10 Thread Bill Page
. Regards, Bill Page. On 7/10/07, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: Err, no, I haven't written it up in pamphlet style at all... my version of Axiom (Timestamp: Wednesday June 21, 2006 at 03:45:56) doesn't seem to come with any pamphlets. The '*.spad.dvi files just contain the text of the *.spad files

Re: [Axiom-mail] Getting numerical values from a closed form integration?

2007-07-12 Thread Bill Page
weakness in Axiom's system of coercions. Don't you find a strong typed CAS is nice for mathematics even if the final user is a little bored... Francois, could you expand this comment? I am not sure what point you are making when you say bored. :-) Regards, Bill Page

Re: [Axiom-mail] downloading sources stale?

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Page
On 8/2/07, Oliver Kullmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read through the axiom-book, and it looked quite good, until I realised that this anti-syntax like in python is used: That's a show-stopper. In principle, of course, such indentation-games should be only part of the user-interface, and

Re: [Axiom-mail] Axiom commands in LaTeX documents

2007-08-04 Thread Bill Page
think that would be great and would be immediately useful for the Axiom pamphlet files on the wiki. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

[Axiom-mail] Re: Axiom / guess / sage

2007-08-16 Thread Bill Page
something that works. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

Re: [Axiom-mail] Axiom Wiki and Portal are moving

2007-11-01 Thread Bill Page
On 01 Nov 2007 12:54:00 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: Bill Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | new sites now. They can be found at: | | http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org | | and | | http://axiom-portal.newsynthesis.org What will happen to the email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right now

Re: [Axiom-mail] I can't get the latex file for AxiomEmacsMode with noweb

2007-11-21 Thread Bill Page
and the link should be ok now. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

[Axiom-mail] Axiom Wiki and Axiom Portal

2007-11-24 Thread Bill Page
register at the new site: http://axiom-portal.newsynthesis.org and if necessary ask me for help in transferring the content. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

Re: [Axiom-mail] download

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Page
http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org http://axiom-developer.org On 12/27/07, suzanne molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get a download of axiom? ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question

2008-02-02 Thread Bill Page
it is a bad choice you need to understand how Axiom assigns types to various objects - this is very complicated and often quite unexpected - even when it works. The problem is finding a good way to write this that always works the way you expect. Regards, Bill Page

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] Setting elements in a matrix

2008-02-29 Thread Bill Page
become degenerate (since nrows=ncols). It seems to me that this is quite normal in the Axiom library. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

Re: [Axiom-mail] LLL-Algorithm

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLL_algorithm On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: Andreas Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I hope this is the right address. Has Axiom implemented the LLL-algorithm? not yet, but it would be wonderful if you (or somebody) did. It would

Re: [Axiom-mail] Drawing two curves at once?

2008-05-29 Thread Bill Page
==Example 2) Regards, Bill Page. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: Is there an easier way, in Axiom, of drawing two curves on the same set of axes than with the getGraph, putGraph and makeViewport2D commands? It would be nice (for me!) simply to be able to enter, say draw

Re: [Axiom-mail] Two hyperdoc questions

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Page
/msg00411.html (I haven't tried the patch.) 2) Is it possible to configure hyperdoc so that a search can be initiated simply by pressing return, rather than by clicking the Search link? Probably a small programming change but what should happen if there is more than one link on a page? Regards, Bill

Re: [Axiom-mail] A little simplification problem

2008-08-01 Thread Bill Page
) - expandPowers( %% 2) (4) 0 Type: Expression Integer - Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail

Re: [Axiom-mail] Programming with BTREEs.

2009-04-06 Thread Bill Page
); _ binaryTree(lst.1)),_ is: Check if the first item in lst is a List. If it is, call 'buildTree' recursively with the value. Otherwise call 'binaryTree' with the value. Ref: (4) - )show Any (4) - )show SExpression Regards, Bill Page. On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Simon Blomberg s.blombe

[Axiom-mail] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: InputForm

2009-06-03 Thread Bill Page
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: Bill Page writes: Note also that   y^2+x is not syntactically identical to the input   x+y^2 I wonder why FriCAS changes the order? Because the semantics is the same. Yes, thanks. Now I understand. In the expression: (x+y^2

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] InputForm

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Page
are in some sense cononical. But even these are only cononical to the degree that the domain from which they are derived has such properties. So it is not clear to me how one can hope to reserve InputForm for only this use. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-mail

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] InputForm

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Page
| On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | ... | I would reserve the use of InputForm for syntatic canonical | forms of mathematical objects. | | Bill Page wrote: | Currently InputForm values can arise both from parsing of input | strings and On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9

Re: [Axiom-mail] A question about Axiom capabilities, Fwd: [fricas-devel] Abstract Vector Algebra

2013-03-29 Thread Bill Page
See: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220915895_Rule-Based_Simplification_in_Vector-Product_Spaces There has been some work done on this subject in one of the Axiom forks: -- Forwarded message -- From: someone someb...@bluewin.ch Date: 27 October 2012 21:07 Subject: Re:

Re: [Axiom-mail] [fricas-devel] Using a polynomial inside a function

2015-11-16 Thread Bill Page
12 Type: Union(f1: OrderedCompletion(Expression(Integer)),...) Bill Page. On 16 November 2015 at 19:39, Alasdair McAndrew <amc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a minimum (non)-working example: I have a function which returns a > polynomial: > > mult(xs)==

Re: [Axiom-mail] [fricas-devel] Problem with displayed digits

2015-11-14 Thread Bill Page
I can't reproduce this with the following simple example. Could you be more specific? (1) -> outputFixed(2) Type: Void (2) -> %pi::Float (2) 3.14 Type: Float