On 09/21/10 06:12 PM, Niles wrote:
I'd just like to comment that, if the wording "nearest Mathematica equivalent" is going to be an essential part of this, then it should be very carefully chosen, and probably implemented through some
Maybe "nearest" is not appropriate. Perhaps "similar" or something like that, so it avoids any arguments about what is similar and what is not.
Nobody can expect the commands to be identical - except for trivial ones like Sin[], Cos[]. In the case of factor() there are two very obvious Mathematica commands that provide broadly similar functionality.
At the end of the day, this is not a suggestion to make a Sage-> Mathematica or Mathematica -> Sage converter, So people would be expected to look at what commands might do.
I'm not very conversant with how the doctests work, so I can't really comment on the way to do it, but I know if a precisely defined method was used, then it would be possible to extract data with a shell script very easily.
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