On Sunday, March 4, 2012, Irucka Embry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, thanks William. I guess that I misspoke, I meant that when I first heard about Sage years ago, the description of Sage was that it was "built on open-source packages like GNU Octave, Scilab, Maxima, etc." >
Sage has also never included or used any code from Scilab; in fact the Scilab licence was really weird when I started Sage (it is better now). > It would be very helpful to have an option to have a decimal answer when performing calculations, especially when solving complex linear and/or nonlinear equations, such as is possible with Matlab, GNU Octave, Scilab, etc. It is very difficult to find any answers online, in the Sage search engine, etc. to that question. > Sage output is always displayed in decimal by default, so I do not understand your question at all. > Thank-you for your quick response. > > Irucka Embry > > > <-----Original Message-----> >>From: William Stein [[email protected]] >>Sent: 3/4/2012 6:54:23 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Cc: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: GNU Octave and Sage? >> >> >> >>On Sunday, March 4, 2012, Irucka Embry <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi William Stein, how are you? >>> >>> Why doesn't Sage use GNU Octave as one of its packages anymore? I remember >>working with Sage years ago when Octave was included as a package. I checked >>online today and Octave is no longer listed as a package. >>> >> >>Octave has never been included with Sage. >>Install octave on your OS in whatever way is standard. You should be able to >>use it from sage via the octave command, e.g., >> >>sage: octave.eval('2+2') >>4 >> >> >> >>> I would like to thank you in advance. >>> >>> Irucka Embry >> >>-- >>William Stein >>Professor of Mathematics >>University of Washington >>http://wstein.org > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get the Free email that has everyone talking at http://www.mail2world.com > Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More! -- William Stein 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
