I'm running your linux 32bit binaries, "SAGE Version 2.4, Release
Date: 2007-03-25"  on xubuntu kernel 2.6.17-10-generic.

On 5/7/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 5/7/07, Brian & Caitlin Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm stuck again.  Are rings something that will be more transparent in
> > future versions, or must I learn them :)
>
> They will be much more transparent -- you won't have to learn about them.
> Basically what you're trying to do below is not supported in sage-2.4.2,
> except via maxima.  In sage-2.5 it is very well supported.
>
> What operating system are you using?
>
>  -- William
>
> >
> > sage: x = polygen(RR,'x')
> > sage: f = exp(x)
> >
> > <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: cannot coerce nonconstant polynomial to float
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > On 5/7/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 5/7/07, Brian & Caitlin Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I was just asking about the recommended way to solve some general
> > > > problems.  You've answered my question by saying that maxima will be
> > > > more transparent in the future.
> > > >
> > > > By the way, it's unintuitive that this should give an error in SAGE:
> > > > f =x - 3.3
> > > >
> > > > <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: unsupported operand parent(s) for '-':
> > > > 'Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Rational Field' and 'Real Field
> > > > with 53 bits of precision'
> > > >
> > > > What's the workaround?
> > >
> > > (a) wait for sage-2.5 in which you get:
> > >
> > > sage: f = x - 3.3
> > > sage: f
> > > x - 3.30000000000000
> > >
> > > (b) Today:
> > >
> > > sage: x = polygen(RR,'x')
> > > sage: f = x - 3.3
> > > sage: f
> > > 1.00000000000000*x - 3.30000000000000
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://www.williamstein.org
>
> >
>

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