> The fact that this doesn't work (hence requiring that one define > matrices over QQ, which is quite confusing for students who haven't - > and, for non-majors, won't - take algebra) is the main reason our > linear algebra person does not use Sage in the course. He would love > to, though, because Octave does everything with floats or whatever > which is not always appropriate.
I finally agree. Incidentally, doing everything with floats would I think be *very* inappropriate for an undergrad class in linear algebra, where most of the by hand problems require the students to use rational numbers. Anyway, this will get fixed. -- William > > For what it's worth, > - kcrisman > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
