[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
This looks beautiful. It looks fine to me. Some grammatical ideas: (a) I think you can say open source instead of open-source, even though what you have is correct. (b) Possibly Python based should be Python-based. (c) Numerous methods ... Could be worded Use the numerous software packages

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha0 released

2008-10-21 Thread David Joyner
For a source tarball and a sage.math only tarball see http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.2/ Cheers, Michael Merged in Sage 3.2.alpha0: #1323: Robert Miller: generate all subspaces of a vector space/ projective space [Reviewed by David Joyner] #3872: William Stein

[sage-devel] Re: Source on webpage

2008-10-17 Thread David Joyner
Thanks Harald for adding the link to http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main?cmd=manifest;manifest=-1;path=/sage/ But the changeset indicates this is almost a month old. Is there a way to get the more recent version? On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Harald Schilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So, do you vote [X ] Yes, include TinyMCE as a standard package [ ] Yes, include TinyMCE as an optional package [ ] No, do not include TinyMCE as a package Also, if this is added I hope that somewhere the text

[sage-devel] Re: Heaviside step and impulse functions

2008-10-14 Thread David Joyner
What is wrong with using the piecewise defined functions for the unit step function? You are right though, delta functions are not implemented yet. Of course, they are not really functions either, so how they should be implemented is an issue as well. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Ronan

[sage-devel] Re: Final Sage 3.1.3 sources are out

2008-10-14 Thread David Joyner
My copy of 31.3.rc0 got hosed somehow using sage -upgrade. I have no idea what I did wrong. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:04 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, here are the minimal fixes for the final 3.1.3: #4271: Paul Zimmermann: improve coverage test of ell_generic.py to

[sage-devel] Re: Final Sage 3.1.3 sources are out

2008-10-14 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:04 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, here are the minimal fixes for the final 3.1.3: #4271: Paul Zimmermann: improve coverage test of ell_generic.py to 100%, and fix typos [Reviewed by John Cremona] #4272: Michael Abshoff: add the files from new

[sage-devel] Re: Of possible use to the Sage project

2008-10-14 Thread David Joyner
I wonder if any of this code sponsored by NAG is truely FOSS. I didn't see any licensing statements though I didn't dig very deep. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Hazem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just came across this code which may be of relevance:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.rc0 released

2008-10-13 Thread David Joyner
All tests passed on amd64 hardy heron. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:46 AM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, the is finally (and hopefully) the last release before 3.1.3. Unless something major is broken this tarball will be identical (modulo version string and some potential

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org website update #5

2008-10-12 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Harald Schilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, here is a short update about the sagemath.org website. First, when i started to monitor the access, the usual number of visits per day was 800-1000. It still varies, but you can think of 2000 visits per day

[sage-devel] Re: Trouble with .gaprc file when compiling from source

2008-10-11 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:58 AM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 11, 6:54 am, Matthias Meulien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi Matthias, I successfully compiled Sage 3.1.2 from source. But I had troubles with many commands... I finaly realized that all functions using a GAP

[sage-devel] Re: quotient rings

2008-10-04 Thread David Joyner
Makes sense, no objections to your Sage suggestion. The reason I am emailing is that you webpage http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/preprints.html points to Lifting and base change for automorphic forms, 2008 but there is no link. I was just curious to flip through it that's all. No hurry or

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha2 released

2008-10-01 Thread David Joyner
] #3659: Mike Hansen: Upgrade IPython to 0.8.4 [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff] #3799: Emily Kirkman: degree sequence should not be a single integer in graph_database [Reviewed by Robert Miller] #3943: David Joyner: block designs patch [Reviewed by Robert Miller] #4021: Martin Albrecht

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal for Inclusion into Sage: Sphinx, Docutils, Pygments, and Jinja

2008-09-30 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, As part of the conversion of the Sage documentation to Sphinx, I propose that Sphinx and its dependencies (Docutils, Pygments, and Jinja) be added to Sage. Here are brief descriptions for what each of the

[sage-devel] incidence structures class

2008-09-25 Thread David Joyner
for details. At the moment, the plan is for the tree to look like combinat |-- crystals |-- designs |-- matrices |-- posets |-- root_system |-- sf and designs |-- __init__.py |-- all.py |-- block_design.py |-- incidence_structures.py Any comments or suggestions? - David Joyner

[sage-devel] Re: a cython program (elements_in_linear_span)

2008-09-24 Thread David Joyner
, meanwhile Magma does it in almost 0 seconds). I assume this is a typo? David Joyner have checked the results of this program compared to Magma's and the construction is almost similar: sage: MS = MatrixSpace(IntegerModRing(9), 5,5) sage: G = MS([[5, 0, 0, 0, 4],[4, 5, 0, 0, 0],[0, 4, 5, 0, 0

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha1 released

2008-09-24 Thread David Joyner
Builds and passed sage -testall on amd64 hardy heron. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:42 AM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, this is alpha1, a couple hours later than I wanted, but than a bunch of things got in the way during the day. Sources are in the usual place at

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.3.alpha0 released

2008-09-20 Thread David Joyner
[Reviewed by John Cremona] #4103: Jason Grout: Delete the cmap option for vector field plots [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff] #4104: Jason Grout: Create plot_slope_field function [Reviewed by David Joyner] #4115: Robert Miller: Double coset problems [Reviewed by David Joyner] #4127: David Philp

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc4 on Cygwin - a ray of hope

2008-09-19 Thread David Joyner
I second Martin's congratulations! On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:20 AM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be done: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 sage-PC 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/sage312 $ ./sage

[sage-devel] Re: make it clear that Sage is GPL

2008-09-17 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did a little advertisement for Sage on one Czech linux journal here: http://www.root.cz/clanky/softwarova-sklizen-17-9-2008/#sage But they wrongly read from the Sage webpages, that Sage is using the Creative

[sage-devel] Re: reopening Sage - Blender discussion

2008-09-17 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:57 PM, mhampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd mention that using ffmpeg and Sage/singular/gfan/tachyon I was able to finish the little pilot project I had in mind: taking a 5d Groebner fan, intersecting it with a hyperplane, rotating it in 4d, and animating

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc3 released

2008-09-14 Thread David Joyner
Thank you for starting this! I corrected a minor typo or 2 and added stuff for the meataxe section. If Michael accepts the latest patch by Robert Miller then that should be added. On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the 3.1.2.final is near, I started

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc3 released

2008-09-14 Thread David Joyner
On amd64 hardy heron, builds finds and all tests passed. On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:59 AM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, we are getting very close now. We fixed a bunch of blocker doctest issues and also fixed a long standing memleak in the number field code. Another

[sage-devel] Re: Is there a better way to start design discussions?

2008-09-13 Thread David Joyner
I agree with everything Jason said. It would be useful if you could find one of the lead developers who would be willing to review your code, once written, and you could ask them about how to implement ideas. Bobby Moretti used to be great for that but I don't know if he is still doing Sage

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc2 released

2008-09-13 Thread David Joyner
built fine on amd64 hardy heron but this test failed: The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage/sage/modules/free_module.py Total time for all tests: 5285.8 seconds Please see /home/wdj/sagefiles/sage-3.1.2.rc2/tmp/test.log for the complete log from this test. [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc1 released

2008-09-10 Thread David Joyner
interface [Reviewed by Martin Albrecht] #4073: Martin Albrecht: disable colors in sage0 [Reviewed by Mike Hansen] #4074: Mike Hansen: the notebook is totally broken in secure mode with the new twisted spkg [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff] #4075: David Joyner: fix bug in BCHCode [Reviewed by Robert

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc0 released

2008-09-08 Thread David Joyner
This is on amd64 gutsy gibbon: The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage/sage/rings/bernoulli_mod_p.pyx sage -t devel/sage/sage/rings/arith.py sage -t devel/sage/sage/interfaces/lisp.py Total time for all tests: 4005.5 seconds Please see

[sage-devel] Re: proposal: spkg doc directories

2008-09-05 Thread David Joyner
This could make it harder for Timothy Abbott to create debian versions. Based on some posted to debian-science, it appears that certain debian maintainers have a negative view of the GNU FDL, which some documentation is licensed under. Pushing FDL docs into a GPL's package might make the entire

[sage-devel] Re: proposal: spkg doc directories

2008-09-05 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:30 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:27 AM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This could make it harder for Timothy Abbott to create debian versions. Based on some posted to debian-science, it appears that certain debian

[sage-devel] Re: Bug in Matrix multiplication, Eigenvalue calculation?

2008-09-04 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM, chris75de [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, the following code b=matrix(3,1,[random() for i in [1..3]]) B=b*b.transpose() lb,Sb=B.right_eigenvectors() print lb print print Sb.transpose()*B*Sb print print Sb.transpose()*Sb give's in my sage version 3.0.6

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-02 Thread David Joyner
(20080901) [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff] #4025: Michael Abshoff, Mike Hansen: Sage 3.1.2.alpha3: benchmark.py runs Maple tests that should be optional [Reviewed by David Joyner] #4027: Martin Albrecht: Sage 3.1.2.alpha3: matrix_mod2_dense.pyx doctest failure on 32 bits [Reviewed by Michael

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha3 released

2008-08-31 Thread David Joyner
Built fine on amd64 hardy heron but the test for benchmark.py failed. Do you want me to post it? It was similar to the output John posted. On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:28 AM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, Doc Day 3 went well and we barely missed the goal of 60% coverage with

[sage-devel] Re: Abelian groups are driving me crazy

2008-08-29 Thread David Joyner
I agree AbelianGroups needs rewriting and has odd behavior in some cases. Incidently, here is what GAP does: gap A := AbelianGroup([1,2,3]); pc group of size 6 with 3 generators gap GeneratorsOfGroup(A); [ identity of ..., f1, f2 ] gap A := AbelianGroup([2,1,3]); pc group of size 6 with 3

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on french TV

2008-08-29 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Jaap Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philippe Saade wrote: Hi dev team, Some of you know that wednesday and thursday i made an official presentation of Sage at the Maths' Teachers' Summer School (French Educational System). Notebook ended up on TV (well 3

[sage-devel] Re: page not found for Kohel's cryptography notes

2008-08-28 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Minh Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, At the URL http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_with_SAGE the first dot point _appears_ to give a link to David Kohel's notes on cryptography. The link is http://www.sagemath.org/pub/crypto.pdf This link is

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha1 released

2008-08-28 Thread David Joyner
Hansen] #3655: C. Boncelet, David Joyner: left multiplication in piecewise does not work [Reviewed by Mike Hansen] #3719: David Joyner: bug in group cohomology [Reviewed by Alex Ghitza] #3724: Martin Albrecht: faster hashs for Matrix_mod2_dense [Reviewed by Simon King] #3792: Ondrej Certik

[sage-devel] Re: Student project on sage graphics

2008-08-28 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Arnaud Bergeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a strong possibility that for the next semester I will be working on the graphics area of sage. I would working more on the visible side than the innards but that does not mean I will not touch the innards

[sage-devel] Re: Additive Groups

2008-08-28 Thread David Joyner
Since no one has emailed intelligent comments yet, I'll add my own not-so-intelligent but hopefully encouraging ones below:-) On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:18 PM, John Cremona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently in Sage, AbelianGroups are all multiplicative. There's a TODO in abelian_groups.py

[sage-devel] Re: Additive Groups

2008-08-28 Thread David Joyner
defined function with 2 parts, [[(0, 1), x |-- 2], [(1, 2), x |-- 2*(1 - x)]] If you think this will help with your problem, see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3655 John 2008/8/28 David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since no one has emailed intelligent comments yet, I'll add my own

[sage-devel] Re: LiveCD 3.1.1

2008-08-28 Thread David Joyner
My students are finding this very useful. Thank you Alfredo! On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Alfredo Portes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a LiveCD (Ubuntu based) of 3.1.1, if anybody wants to try it. A vmware image that runs the livecd is included.

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal for inclusion of GINAC/pynac-0.1 in Sage.

2008-08-25 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:59 AM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I propose that pynac be included in Sage. Pynac is a rewrite of Ginac to seamlessly use native Python objects instead of CLN -- for inclusion in Sage. Pynac is a C++ library plus extensive Cython bindings.

[sage-devel] Re: missing imports for experimental module for Sage

2008-08-25 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Philippe Saade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i'am testing a Python module i wrote and placed it in one of the pathes visited by Sage's Python while importing. I try to do the necessary imports at the beginning of my module but it seem's to be an endless

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal for inclusion of GINAC/pynac-0.1 in Sage.

2008-08-25 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, parisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still do not understand why giac is not even mentionned in the symbolic discussion considering the fact that like ginac, it is a C++ library, but unlike ginac (Ginac Is Not A Cas), giac (Giac Is A Cas) has much more

[sage-devel] Re: missing imports for experimental module for Sage

2008-08-25 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Philippe Saade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Philippe Saade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nybody give me a hint ? Did you add it to devel/sage/setup.py

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-24 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:45 PM, iSAGE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am really looking for the day when I will do apt-get install sage, which is number 1 on my wish-list. That day should be very soon, I hope. (Tim Abbott -- any updates on the status of this?) -- William This is

[sage-devel] Fwd: [FSF] Submit your nominations for the 2008 Free Software Awards

2008-08-19 Thread David Joyner
I know it may be a long shot, but I would like to ask this group for its recommendations regarding the nomination of William Stein and/or Sage for the Advancement of FS and/or Award for Projects of Social Benefit, resp.. Previous winners of the Advancement of FS include Lawrence Lessig (of

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.6.rc0 released

2008-07-22 Thread David Joyner
Installed fine and passed sage -testall on amd64 hardy heron, phenom chip. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:16 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, this is 3.0.6.rc0 which should be the last release before the ISSAC 2008 special 3.0.6 release for Wednesday. We fixed a bunch of issues

[sage-devel] Re: units, was: Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-20 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:14 PM, root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked around to see what Maple and Mathematica have in the way of units, but from what I have seen, there is nothing very exciting. Which is OK --- something boring which just works right would be very useful. Frink is the

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread David Joyner
I think it's great that you are doing this. Does a patch exist yet? I'd like to try it out. On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on writing eigenvalue/eigenvector functions, as mentioned here:

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread David Joyner
have kernel_left? On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Joyner wrote: I think it's great that you are doing this. Does a patch exist yet? I'd like to try it out. I put up a preliminary patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2816 The patch

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-19 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:10 PM, q10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: It has come to my attention that SAGE does not have a units-conversion program component (maybe it has; if it does, please show me). I recommend adding the GPLed unit conversion program called ConvertAll

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.6.alpha0 released

2008-07-17 Thread David Joyner
Installed fine and all tests passed on amd64 hardy heron. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:48 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, this is 3.0.6.alpha0. This release is a mix of bug fixes and new features. Nothing crazy has been merged so far and it is unclear at the moment how

[sage-devel] Re: Epydoc API Documentation for Sage

2008-07-17 Thread David Joyner
Wow. This is amazing and great that you did this! Thanks very much Mike. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I played around a bit with Epydoc this morning and was able to get it to produce semi-decent output for Sage (by explicitly importing

[sage-devel] Re: bug in RIng

2008-07-15 Thread David Joyner
Done. It's 3655. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:38 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 14, 6:34 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, thanks! I'll make up a patch right now. I am not so sure this is the proper fix, but you ought to open a ticket for the issue anyway

[sage-devel] Re: bug in RIng

2008-07-14 Thread David Joyner
with 1 parts, [[(0, 1), 2]] Hope this helps, --CGB On Jul 12, 4:17 am, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly, this is not a bug in Ring. For the class of Piecewise functions, __mul__ is implemented in a way that allows you to multiply two elements in that class. If you try to multiply

[sage-devel] Re: bug in RIng

2008-07-12 Thread David Joyner
Possibly, this is not a bug in Ring. For the class of Piecewise functions, __mul__ is implemented in a way that allows you to multiply two elements in that class. If you try to multiply a piecewise times a rational (in that order) then it detects this and creats on the fly a piecewise function

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Minor error in Sage Reference Manual

2008-07-11 Thread David Joyner
This is strange. Can you tell me exactly where you found that? The docstring for orthogonal_polys http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main/file/e2481e70f7f6/sage/functions/orthogonal_polys.py says 2nd kind and the reference manual (I think) comes from the docstrings... On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:28

[sage-devel] Re: how to run Sage in a system wide Python

2008-07-09 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:27 AM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:29 AM, François Bissey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

[sage-devel] Re: constructions document

2008-07-09 Thread David Joyner
obvious way. There is a tarball at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/cookbook2008-07-09.tar.gz so you can test out the latexing on you own machine first. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:45 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:12 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-09 Thread David Joyner
This looks really excellent. A few extremely minor comments. (1) You have 2 photos of Lenstra, p133+p137. I'm not sure if that was intended. (Also, one is Lenstra and the other is Hendrik Lenstra, yet the references have papers by both H Lenstra and A Lenstra.) (2) The Juno Reactor cover art on

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.4.rc0 released

2008-07-08 Thread David Joyner
Builds fine and all tests passed on amd64 hardy heron, phenom chip. On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, Sage 3.0.4.rc0 is out. We merged only bug fixes and hope that this will be identical to the final release. This time we have a source tarball

[sage-devel] constructions document

2008-07-08 Thread David Joyner
Hi: The bugs in the constructions document pop up every once in awhile on the email lists. My understanding was that it would be replaced by a cookbook, which covered a superset of the material but had chapters written (or co-written) by different experts. I have a chapter draft (co-written with

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.4.alpha2 released

2008-07-07 Thread David Joyner
] #3399: Gary Furnish: sage pbuild extcode files should be moved to devel [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff] #3410: Burcin Erocal: conversion of matrices over polynomial rings to magma is broken [Reviewed by William Stein] #3442: David Joyner, Willem Jan Palenstijn: is_normal for permutation groups

[sage-devel] Re: interfacing library of functions

2008-06-25 Thread David Joyner
If I understand your question correctly, you might find the interface examples in sage/interfaces http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main/file/c25e04ebfb67/sage/interfaces/ helpful. On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:26 PM, anbdoulwahaab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Need some help to write an

[sage-devel] Re: interfacing library of functions

2008-06-25 Thread David Joyner
. 2008/6/25 abu anbdoulhaaq anbdoulwahaab [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to know how to write my own interface for programs I have. 2008/6/25 David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I understand your question correctly, you might find the interface examples in sage/interfaces http

[sage-devel] Re: xmaxima is built if you have tcl/tk!

2008-06-24 Thread David Joyner
I'm with William. I was pretty happy when Francois reported (or more precisely reminded me, since I think I knew and forgot) that xmaxima was available. This means that openmath plotter (like jmol, but using tcl.tk instead of java) is available too, whenever tcl/tk is installed. On Tue, Jun 24,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.4.alpha0 released

2008-06-23 Thread David Joyner
Installed fine and all tests passed on hardy heron amd 64, phenom chip. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, here goes Sage 3.0.4.alpha0. This is supposed to be a quick release, so let's try to keep this simple. We do have quite a number of

[sage-devel] Re: pyprocessing

2008-06-22 Thread David Joyner
+1 On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:00 AM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to propose adding pyprocessing as a standard spkg to Sage. http://pyprocessing.berlios.de/ This is *by far* the best tool I've ever seen for making use of multiple processors on a single

[sage-devel] Re: lite.sagemath.org

2008-06-09 Thread David Joyner
Has anyone yet tested to see how well the new site mirrors? I haven't looked at the source html but just just ask since I think 10 or so non-functioning mirrors would be a bad thing. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:25 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, So we're going to switch

[sage-devel] Re: Jehanne's code

2008-06-09 Thread David Joyner
I think the person involved with coordinating the modular q-expansion code is William Stein himself, so I'm cc'ing the sage-devel list for others interested in this info. My guess is that, if William doesn't know about this Pari code already then he will want to know what license it is released

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.3.alpha1 released!

2008-06-07 Thread David Joyner
Built fine and all tests passed (hardy heon amd64, phenom processor). On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:12 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, pressed return by accident. This is 3.0.3.alpha1 and it was never meant to see the light of day since I wanted to use it internally to test rebuild

[sage-devel] Re: Lattice Boltzmann method

2008-06-04 Thread David Joyner
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_Boltzmann_methods the packages http://www.lbmethod.org/openlb/ and http://www.physics.ndsu.nodak.edu/people/wagner/LB.html are GPL'd. The first is GPLv2 but SAGE is licensed GPLv2+, and the second is licenced under the GPL but doesn't say which

[sage-devel] Re: more licensing discussion - Blender

2008-06-03 Thread David Joyner
I would like to learn a bit about Blender too. If you have a book you'd recommend, please let me know. On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Marshall Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small grant this summer to work on 3D visualization of geometric-algebraic objects (e.g. Groebner fans),

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: math questions about dirichlet characters

2008-05-30 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:27 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on rewriting the tutorial. Section 2.5.1 of the tutorial is about Dirichlet characters, and I have some questions: The introductory sentence discusses Dirichlet characters, and then the first example uses

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.3.alpha0 released!

2008-05-29 Thread David Joyner
At first, sage -testall repoted a failure, in twist.py, but on retesting it passed: ... The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage/sage/server/simple/twist.py Total time for all tests: 5024.1 seconds Please see /home/wdj/sagefiles/sage-3.0.3.alpha0/tmp/test.log for the complete

[sage-devel] Re: Citing Sage and Used Systems

2008-05-27 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:48 PM, John Cremona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely the problem is (and it will get worse not better as Sage improves ;)) that users just may not know which constituents (3rd-party packages, i.e.spkgs) their Sage session has used. Are we asking that our users

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.2.rc3 released!

2008-05-24 Thread David Joyner
issue fix that Jaap encountered and that in the past was also hit by David Joyner. Sources are at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.0.2/sage-3.0.2.rc3.tar Unless something goes horribly wrong this will be identical to the final 3.0.2 release. If you added some

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.2.rc3 released!

2008-05-24 Thread David Joyner
] -- All tests passed! Total time for all tests: 9.6 seconds A bit odd, but I guess this is good news. On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:53 AM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 24, 2:17 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On an amd phenom hardy heron, built fine but sage -testall

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.2.rc0 released!

2008-05-23 Thread David Joyner
Builds fine on an amd phenom machine running hardy heron but sage -testall freezes at sage -t devel/sage/sage/dsage/__init__.py (skipping) -- nodoctest.py file in directory sage -t devel/sage/sage/dsage/tests/testdoc.py + On Fri, May 23, 2008 at

[sage-devel] Re: Yoda 3d model

2008-05-20 Thread David Joyner
Wow! On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Joshua Kantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The author of this http://www.davidson.edu/math/chartier/Starwars/ project wanted code to render a 3d model of yoda for a demonstration of rotation matrices. A worksheet that does this can be found at

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.2-alpha1 released!

2008-05-19 Thread David Joyner
: David Joyner: version option returning clone branch name #3150: Carlo Hamalainen: Memory leak in dancing_links.pyx #3157: Gary Furnish: Executable target for pbuild #3158: Michael Abshoff: singular-3-0-4-2-20080405.p1 requires flex #3159: Tim Abbott, Francois Bissey, Michael Abshoff: Patch

[sage-devel] Re: polytope classes and organization

2008-05-16 Thread David Joyner
, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 4:04 PM, mhampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the brave of heart, I have my current effort up on trac as ticket #2716. I hope to add a number of other things and make the polyhedral classes more intelligent. Again

[sage-devel] Re: square roots of -1 in finite fields

2008-05-15 Thread David Joyner
I'm not disagreeing but want to point out one difference. RR is an ordered field and this fact is used to differentiate between i and -i. However, a finite field such as GF(5) is not, so there is some ambiguity to i. It seems to me that this should be resolved somehow. On Thu, May 15, 2008 at

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread David Joyner
I cannot find the code browser or wiki links, both of which I use a lot. Maybe that is because it is so slow, I give up looking. For me, each page takes 30 seconds. I guess sagemath.org is just slow this morning On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

[sage-devel] SAGE at Jan 2009 AMS meeting

2008-05-13 Thread David Joyner
(sceduled for on Jan 2nd, in the afternoon). Possibly there will be a booth as well, as there was last year. If you are a SAGE developer, could you please reply to this list (or just to me, if you prefer) if you are thinking of attending this meeting? - David Joyner

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.2.alpha0 released!

2008-05-12 Thread David Joyner
inotebook() #3138: Bjarke Roune: Singular multivariate polynomial ring has redundant _repr_ method #3142: Martin Albrecht: MPolynomialIdeal.homogenize bugfix #3143: Martin Albrecht: remove references to /home/was #3046: David Joyner: version option returning clone branch name #3150

[sage-devel] SAGE licensing question

2008-05-05 Thread David Joyner
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[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.1.rc0 released!

2008-05-03 Thread David Joyner
Possibly strange results on an ubuntu 7.10amd64 machine. (It is a rather old machine though, so many this is not something to worry about.) export SAGE_PBUILD=yes export SAGE_BUILD_THREADS=2 make Build went fine. However, sage -testall started messing up almost immediately. Here is some of it:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.1.rc0 released!

2008-05-03 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:19 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 3, 7:14 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:55 PM, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Hi David, Can you post a link to the build log? This is very likely related

[sage-devel] Re: scilab

2008-05-02 Thread David Joyner
I think this is interesting too but was unable to compile it nor get the binary to work. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Hector Villafuerte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:31 AM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Very interestingly, somebody posted that the

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-01 Thread David Joyner
Very good! On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:51 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wrote a new version of my ISSAC talk abstract. What do you think: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/abstract.pdf -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.1-alpha1 released!

2008-05-01 Thread David Joyner
2.3 based binary of Sage to the default build platforms #2325: David Roe, Kiran Kedlaya: segfault in p-adic extension() method #2821: Alex Ghitza: get rid of anything about this document sections of any sage docs that say send email to stein #2939: David Joyner

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-05-01 Thread David Joyner
Looks good to me. I think Python is actually in the top 5 languages now, isn't it? Maybe Perl is 5 and Python is 6? In any case, my only suggestion is to emphasize the point that *you* needed an alternative to the M's by pointing out somehow that (a) the others are propritary and therefore not

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-04-30 Thread David Joyner
I like it but perhaps I am prejudiced:-) IMHO, SAGE would be dead (or at least a very lonely research project) if it weren't for the fact that it is free and open source. But also, design is an important factor. Some ideas (I hesitate to call them suggestions since it seems fine as is): 1.

[sage-devel] Re: ISSAC abstract

2008-04-30 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Simon King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Michael, On Apr 30, 12:15 pm, Michael Brickenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be interested in real word use cases, which demonstrate, why such a system is needed. E.g., I think Simon king did some

[sage-devel] Re: Slightly OT: SCC 2008 Braid Groups

2008-04-30 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't know if that is of any interest but someone around here might care about the fact that Sage was probably the most mentioned (and cited) mathematics software at the First Conference for Symbolic

[sage-devel] Re: Slightly OT: SCC 2008 Braid Groups

2008-04-30 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:35 PM, root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if that is of any interest but someone around here might care about the fact that Sage was probably the most mentioned (and cited) mathematics software at the First Conference for Symbolic Computation

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage Enhancement Proposal: Lattice Modules

2008-04-28 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Robert Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SEP Implement Lattices over ZZ, with pairings into QQ or ZZ 0. (Maybe) Implement a FreeModule_ZZ_quotient class. This would also allow for constructing abelian groups in the sort of canonical way (something

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE at ECCAD, was Fwd: [SIGSAM] ECCAD 2008 Second Call For Participants

2008-04-26 Thread David Joyner
I'm going. Robert Miller and I are doing a poster on SAGE and coding theory. I'll submit it tomorrow or Monday. On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:49 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Emil Volcheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, William, Do you

[sage-devel] Re: Weyl Characters

2008-04-26 Thread David Joyner
This looks really awesome Dan. It's really great you are working on this. Is there any functionality planned for products of GL(1)'s (for example)? On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Bump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have implemented some tools for working with characters of Lie groups

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