---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:39 AM Subject: [sage-devel] Sage as a language option on Project Euler To: sage-devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all, projecteuler.net is a fun site that lists over 200 interesting computational math problems and allows registered members to check and post their solutions. Member-profiles include information on what computer language the member prefers to use for the solutions, and the list of available language choices is quite extensive. I recently requested that Sage be available as a language option, and it has now been added to the site (see http://forum.projecteuler.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1097&sid=1c0656df923f6d46a5691151c63acb48 ) According to the Statistics webpage http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=statistics Matlab, Mathematica and Maple are the languages of choice for 304, 258 and 66 members respectively, while Python is second (chosen by 3484 members) after c/c++ (chosen by 4189 members). Solutions to these problems could be interesting benchmarks for comparing Sage with some of its competitors (e.g. regarding runtime as well as simplicity and expressivity). Challenging students to solve these problems with Sage is also a neat way to get them involved with some nontrivial algorithmic issues, although several problems are rather easy to solve with a mathematical system like Sage. (If you sign up at projecteuler.net and use Sage for some solutions, be sure to select it as your language option.) Apologies if this should rather have been posted somewhere else... (please let me know where or repost). Regards, Peter -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. 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-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
