On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:58 PM, JPRickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings -- > > I'm completely new to SAGE after catching a little of the program > on TV the other day.
That was yours truly giving the talk :-) > I have just a few questions. I didn't see these > in the FAQ; if I missed an obvious place to find the answers, my > apologies, and just let me know where to look. If you would, please > also copy your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since it's not too easy > for me to keep up here. > > 1. Is there any thought of a smaller, more basic package, a sort > of "SAGE-lite"? I mean that I would be interested in basic algebraic > manipulation capabilities (up through calculus-type things) and maybe > basic graphing capabilities. I notice the full install requires quite > a bit of memory. Is there a "limited features" version that's > smaller? Yes. This is in the works. Interestingly it is called "sage lite", just as you suggest. It might get done at Sage Devel Days 1 next week: http://wiki.sagemath.org/dev1 > 2. Along the same lines, any thought to having it as a suite of > programs, after the fashion of an office suite? Say, for example, a > symbolic manipulation package, a graphics package, a number cruncher, > etc., but then all fully interfunctional? Yes. Nobody is working on this, but something like that could be built on top of Sage, and I'm sure it would be useful to a lot of people. > 3. Is it possible, and easy if so, to integrate SAGE into > OpenOffice documents? I don't know. > 4. One thing I didn't quite follow from the TV program is that > SAGE seems to be able to use some other programs like Maple. Is it > using these like a black box? To be more concrete Sage is the only general purpose mathematical software system that makes it easy to do things like this: sage: n = 2^129 - 1; n 680564733841876926926749214863536422911 sage: maple(n).ifactor() ``(7)*``(431)*``(11053036065049294753459639)*``(2099863)*``(9719) sage: mathematica(n).FactorInteger() {{7, 1}, {431, 1}, {9719, 1}, {2099863, 1}, {11053036065049294753459639, 1}} > And does that undermine the open source philosophy? I've certainly been told it does... but I don't care. I don't even know what "the open source philosphy" is. I just want a useful and very powerful system that makes it easier to use all my tools together, and I'm glad I now have that system (Sage). Sage at its core is really about technology not philosophy. > I was quite impressed by what I saw of the program and of the > demos I tried on the project website. Kudos (in its original sense) > to all who have brought it about. Thank you for your consideration. Thanks! William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
