the full traffic history of the sage cse: http://chris.chiasson.googlepages.com/2008-03-09SAGESearchEngineStats4074T.png
4074 is the total number of queries in the life of the custom search engine On Mar 9, 5:56 pm, Chris Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like to compare the Sage's Google Groups activity to Mathematica's. > Recently there was a big jump in MMA's, but Sage was kicking butt for > a while there. > > On Mar 9, 11:38 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:31 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I agree; I'm not sure 10^6 users is a useful goal to have, although I > > > am not against it. > > > Again, the goal is not 10^6 users, it is "to be a viable alternative to > > Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, and Magma". Any free program that > > genuinely attains that goal would *have* to have 10^6 users within > > some reasonable amount of time. Thus I consider the 10^6 business > > not a goal in itself, but a clear way to measure whether we have achieved > > success or not. > > > > One of my hopes/goals for Sage is to make every mathematics researcher > > > and educator aware of its existence, and for it to be useful to a > > > large fraction of those folks. Accomplishing that would result in > > > roughly 10,000 "users", but many of those users would be deploying it > > > in classes with many students each semester. If you count the > > > students as users, that would give about 10^5 users. > > > Students would definitely count. > > > -- > > William Stein > > Associate Professor of Mathematics > > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
