Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Sage grant

2014-10-30 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 07:09:53PM -0700, Andrew wrote: I agree with Dima in that it would be great to have some of the basic ring theory available in improved. There are some basic deficiencies with (Laurent) polynomial rings, especially in more than one variable and it would

[sage-combinat-devel] Re: Sage grant

2014-10-30 Thread Anne Schilling
Math presumably not Computer Science. Does Math directorate pay for programmers to write open-source versions of commercial software? It is under the NSF-OCI soliciation which is software in any area (biology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, math, ...). We were not planning to ask for a

Re: [sage-devel] Can We Trust Computer Algebra Systems?

2014-10-30 Thread Jori Mantysalo
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Jakob Kroeker wrote: I suggest to think about offering bounties for new reported bugs When having a course of mathematical software, the teacher could give some extra point to those who report [new] bugs. -- Jori Mäntysalo -- You received this message because you are

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Sage grant

2014-10-30 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 07:09:53PM -0700, Andrew wrote: I agree with Dima in that it would be great to have some of the basic ring theory available in improved. There are some basic deficiencies with (Laurent) polynomial rings, especially in more than one variable and it would

Re: [sage-devel] Can We Trust Computer Algebra Systems?

2014-10-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 29 Oct 2014 14:54, Jakob Kroeker kroe...@uni-math.gwdg.de wrote: In fact, in particular cases active testing was already done by some Sage developers, which (I do not know this) probably were not explicitly paid for that task. I have certainly fed random inputs to sage and found some that

Re: [sage-devel] Can We Trust Computer Algebra Systems?

2014-10-30 Thread mmarco
How hard would it be to switch from the singular interface to the MAcualay2 one for the polynomial stuff? If we can do that, we could automate an extra pass of the testsuite consisting on comparing the output from one interface to the other. Many people doing algebraic geometry research use

Re: [sage-devel] SPKG Maintainers??

2014-10-30 Thread William Stein
On Oct 30, 2014 5:26 AM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Ordinarily I'd be against this sort of thing, but I agree that this concept has not proved to be useful - any given maintainer rarely actually does keep up with things for more than a year or two, though in aggregate the community does

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on OSX 10.10

2014-10-30 Thread Samuel Lelievre
I uninstalled homebrew and tried again, the build was successful. I will now build sage-6.4.rc0. Thank you for making this work! 2014-10-29 15:07:19 UTC+1, Volker Braun: Gcc picks up parts of your homebrew install, you must at least rename /usr/local before you can build anything with

[sage-devel] Sage is good for you -- official!

2014-10-30 Thread John Cremona
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[sage-devel] Re: Sage grant

2014-10-30 Thread rjf
On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 4:42:54 PM UTC-7, Anne Schilling wrote: Dear All! Dan Bump, Ben Salisbury, Mark Shimozono and I are planning to apply for an NSF grant for Sage (to fund Sage Days and other Sage related activities). Math presumably not Computer Science. Does Math

[sage-devel] Re: Sage grant

2014-10-30 Thread kcrisman
Does Math directorate pay for programmers to write open-source versions of commercial software? Or are these topics designating novel algorithms and data structures? Take a look at the list below and decide for yourself. There will always be mathematics not yet implemented in any

[sage-devel] Re: Sage is good for you -- official!

2014-10-30 Thread kcrisman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29817519 When I saw the title of the article I was sure it was going to say that checking Sudoku solutions with Sage helps ward off dementia... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To

[sage-devel] Re: Sage grant

2014-10-30 Thread Anne Schilling
Math presumably not Computer Science. Does Math directorate pay for programmers to write open-source versions of commercial software? It is under the NSF-OCI soliciation which is software in any area (biology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, math, ...). We were not planning to ask for a