Jason Grout wrote: > I'm not sure what is going on here. Version 3.0.5 is from quite a while > ago, at least in Sage terms. The calculation works great in the current > version of Sage (version 3.4, just released yesterday, as tested on > http://www.sagenb.org.) Did you say that this was from the jaunty > source, as in the debian packaging of Sage?
Yes. It is from the prospective Ubuntu 9.04 (April 2009) Jaunty release built from Debian packages that might be customized for Ubuntu. Would you recommend that I compile from the source tarball instead? > Does running "sage -maxima" > run maxima? Can you solve simpler equations? I am unfamiliar with maxima and its syntax, but typing sage -maxima gives --- Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL) Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. (%i1) --- I was able to solve the preceding equations on that tutorial page without error. I think I saw a maxima crash and then a message saying "automatically restarted" but have not been able to replicate it. In any case I remember I got the correct answer without any manual intervention. I am copying this reply to the debian-sage mailing list as well if it might help in the solution. Thank you. Chandra --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
