On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Gustavo de Oliveira
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does the object var('x') (the symbolic variable x) exist by default in
> the interactive Sage session?

Yes.

>
> Here is what I got in my terminal:
>
> $ cd sage-3.4.2/
> $ ./sage
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Sage Version 3.4.2, Release Date: 2009-05-05
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> sage: x
> x
> sage: type(x)
> <class 'sage.calculus.calculus.SymbolicVariable'>
> sage:
>
>
> Is this a default setting? (Or a "Bug"?)

It is a default setting.   It is not a bug.

>
> (I am running Sage-3.4.2 on Linux i386 (pre-compiled version
> downloaded from sagemath.org))
>
> Cheers,
> Gustavo de Oliveira
>
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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