> 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

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