On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Alec Mihailovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> What is your point? >> >> Actually, I meant that more about Maplesoft. Sage support is usually good in >> this group, just wasn't very good in this thread. > > I am sure many people have tried to fix your problem. Certainly I did, > I tried it in SymPy to see if it's easy for us to fix it, I found a > bug, I reported a bug: > > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1028 > > and concluded these kind of things are too difficult yet and put it > low in my priorities list, as there are more urgent things to fix.
Yes, and in Sage the above is currently nearly impossible because basically none of us know lisp. When Sage uses sympy a lot more for this sort of thing, then things will be different. > > Mathematica is much further, so it's easy for them to fix it. For > other things, like limits, SymPy has enough code for this already, so > when a failing limit was reported, I fixed that within hours: > > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1016 Thanks! I wondered about that since I don't remember you responding to my email about that. Thanks again for fixing it! > > And as to Sage, it's quite difficult to fix things like this, but I > think in a year (or sooner!) Sage will have enough code for these > things in Python/Cython, so that it's easy to fix it. > > Ondrej > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
