---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Addington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:10:08 -0800 Subject: SAGE on MacOS X To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, William, I just downloaded SAGE and am trying it out on MacOS 10.4. So far the only weirdness I have found is the behavior of the round function: round(sqrt(2),2) gives 1.4099999999999999. While this is correct, it looks strange. Next quarter I am designing and teaching a technology course for future secondary math teachers, at the precalculus level. The CAS part will use graphing calculators and, perhaps, SAGE. I looked in the documentation section; all the help is pretty high- level---modular forms, Groebner bases, etc. And those very basic getting-started things like Shift-Enter to execute, and g.show() to show the graph take some digging to find, or previous experience with something like Mathematica. My students will need more elementary help. Do you know if anyone has done a lower-level tutorial? If not, I might have the start of one by April. Thanks for your work on this project. Susan Addington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Math Department, California State University, San Bernardino -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
