[sage-devel] Re: [sage-forum] sage-2.8.8

2007-10-22 Thread Hamptonio
I had the following failure from make test, from devel/sage-main/ sage/numerical/test.py. I'm guessing its from the convoluted history of my fortran installs on that machine (a powerpc apple powerbook): sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/numerical/test.py

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: ode_solver

2007-10-17 Thread Hamptonio
Perhaps this could be written to use the new rdef function code, to make it easier for the user to provide a cdef function to the solver. That would be great. As a short term alternative, I think I will write my own simple 4th-order Runge-Kutta solver in cython, but it would be nice to be

[sage-devel] Re: Video of Robert's talk on Cython

2007-10-10 Thread Hamptonio
I was really enjoying this when it froze at 4:37. I can't seem to get past that point. -Marshall On Oct 9, 12:27 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've posted the video of Robert Bradshaw's Sage Days 5 talk on Cython at Google Video:

[sage-devel] Re: Video of Robert's talk on Cython

2007-10-10 Thread Hamptonio
It works fine on another computer; my old apple laptop can be funny with multimedia. Marshall On Oct 10, 9:28 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was really enjoying this when it froze at 4:37. I can't seem to get past that point

[sage-devel] Re: Minor notebook CSS / HTML changes

2007-10-04 Thread Hamptonio
Thanks for working on this. At the moment (on firefox at least) the toggle function hides the top bar but doesn't increase the size of the rest of the worksheet. I am wondering if I should apply your first patch and then the second? I applied the toggle.patch on an unmodified 2.8.5.1 version.

[sage-devel] minor issue: remainders with floats

2007-10-04 Thread Hamptonio
I am porting some Mathematica code to sage and I ran into a minor issue. I was using the Mod command in mathematica with argument types Mod[float,integer] to create a periodic function. In sage, the mod command gives an error on that sort of input. So I made a simple function: def

[sage-devel] Re: minor issue: remainders with floats

2007-10-04 Thread Hamptonio
Thanks for clearing up my confusion. I will try to implement this. I have added it as ticket #825. Marshall On Oct 4, 11:48 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am porting some Mathematica code to sage and I ran into a minor issue

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread Hamptonio
Nice article. I'll be at CIMAT next July I think, Jordi if you're reading this I look forward to meeting you if you'll still be there. I'll tape an English version of this to my office door. -Marshall On Sep 28, 11:35 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If you read Spanish, you

[sage-devel] Re: making new infix operators

2007-09-25 Thread Hamptonio
I would appreciate any tips on how to extend the + operator in this way, since I would like to implement Minkowski sums of polytopes and this is natural notation for that. Marshall On Sep 25, 10:37 am, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In SAGE, '+' is used for union of sets. For example,

[sage-devel] Re: making new infix operators

2007-09-25 Thread Hamptonio
sage: b + a 42 Note that you'll want to do some type-checking so that y is what you actually think it should be. --Mike On 9/25/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would appreciate any tips on how to extend the + operator in this way, since I would like to implement Minkowski sums

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Trac rules

2007-09-21 Thread Hamptonio
What about an intermediate solution: once someone is a contributor, you could give them edit access to a wiki page listing contributors, and then they could keep their entry current. On Sep 21, 5:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. I should probably move that page to the wiki so people

[sage-devel] Re: Burlington, VT on May 30-31, 2008

2007-09-20 Thread Hamptonio
I'm interested! My first thought is I could speak on using sage in bioinformatics/ computational biology courses, although if the organizers had a particular focus some of my other interests might be more relevant (polytopes, teaching ODEs and calculus with sage, celestial mechanics). Marshall

[sage-devel] Re: newbie development questions

2007-09-20 Thread Hamptonio
Thanks for the blueprint! I knew most of that but it was very helpful to see it all spelled out in order. -Marshall On Sep 20, 2:52 pm, Robert Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I can offer more words of advice. The source revision system used by sage is

[sage-devel] Re: Interactive cells, GUIs, javascript, ...

2007-09-15 Thread Hamptonio
Yes, thanks, that example looks like it will help me a lot. Btw, before reading William's instructions, I ran it without the - python option and it seemed fine. Does the -python option just turn off the preparser? Cheers, Marshall On Sep 14, 7:52 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

[sage-devel] Re: Interactive cells, GUIs, javascript, ...

2007-09-15 Thread Hamptonio
My impression is that recalculates on the fly, but until you stop (moving a slider for example) it tries to do quick-and-dirty computations and rendering. This is pretty clear if you manipulate a 3D graph of a function f(x,y,a) with a the parameter - it doesn't even draw the mesh until you let

[sage-devel] Interactive cells, GUIs, javascript, ...

2007-09-14 Thread Hamptonio
Recently I started using Mathematica 6 in the computer labs of some courses I teach, and I cannot help but be impressed. The new dynamic commands such as Manipulate are very impressive, and are perfect for teaching. Before seeing how powerful it is, I had hoped to switch from using mathematica

[sage-devel] Re: Interactive cells, GUIs, javascript, ...

2007-09-14 Thread Hamptonio
Isn't this exactly the sort of thing that javascript/AJAX is good at doing? When you move an html control the server is contacted for the updated output and it is displayed (by directly manipulating the DOM). I'm sure it won't be as snappy as a purely local GUI (e.g., Mathematica), but it

[sage-devel] Re: Interactive cells, GUIs, javascript, ...

2007-09-14 Thread Hamptonio
pm, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I started using Mathematica 6 in the computer labs of some courses I teach, and I cannot help but be impressed. The new dynamic commands such as Manipulate are very impressive, and are perfect for teaching. Before seeing how powerful

[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-11 Thread Hamptonio
. If this doesn't help at all, I will try your suggestion of a local binutils. Thanks for the help, Marshall On Sep 10, 11:10 pm, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote: On Sep 10, 8:36 pm, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /etc/issue gives: Hello Marshall, Welcome to SUSE

[sage-devel] Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread Hamptonio
Many of you are probably already aware of this, but there is an early alpha release of python 3000 that came out a couple of weeks ago. I thought that might be worth pointing out now so folks can take a look and get used to it early. The final release is tentatively scheduled for late 2008:

[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-10 Thread Hamptonio
as the build says it worked below. Error building and installing polymake real6m1.033s user5m19.608s sys 0m31.232s On Sep 9, 10:35 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/9/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the MSI webpage, it says the bladecenter is: ...a Linux

[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-09 Thread Hamptonio
in __main__.example_0 ***Test Failed*** 1 failures. For whitespace errors, see the file .doctest_real_rqdf.pyx On Sep 8, 10:24 am, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote: On Sep 8, 4:33 pm, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turns out that I also have access to a linux-based supercomputer

[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-09 Thread Hamptonio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/9/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the BladeCenter, only one test failed after upgrading to 2.8.4: sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/rings/real_rqdf.pyx ** File real_rqdf.pyx, line 24

[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-08 Thread Hamptonio
PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks guys. I can't use the notebook anyway from that machine, I would be running pre-written scripts to do heavy calculations. It got far enough that I am hopeful I can get it to where it does what I need. Please post

[sage-devel] compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-07 Thread Hamptonio
Hi, I am hoping to use sage on some supercomputers and/or clusters. Currently I am trying to compile it on the IBM Power4 machine at the Minnesota Supercomputing Center (see http://www.msi.umn.edu/power4/index.html for some details on that). Its about 300 Power4 processors running AIX. I just

[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-07 Thread Hamptonio
: On Sep 7, 7:00 pm, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am hoping to use sage on some supercomputers and/or clusters. Currently I am trying to compile it on the IBM Power4 machine at the Minnesota Supercomputing Center (seehttp://www.msi.umn.edu/power4/index.html for some details

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-13 Thread Hamptonio
I agree. I think a big selling point for sage is using the notebook for teaching. A related thing I would love to have someday is the ability to control which users can see which worksheets, in a fine- grained sense. E.g., I would like to be able to assign students to small groups, and have

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE download stats -- how to increase SAGE usage?

2007-08-08 Thread Hamptonio
Anyone who is an academic using SAGE should try to give a little talk on it to your department (unneccessary at UW of course). I did this and I generated a fair amount of interest from our grad students. The faculty weren't overwhelmed, they all wanted particular things that sage currently

[sage-devel] Re: [Sage-announce] SAGE-2.7.1!

2007-07-25 Thread Hamptonio
And on a 1.5 Ghz G4 (rev 1.2): real166m36.901s user104m24.042s sys 30m26.661s -Marshall On Jul 25, 8:28 pm, Justin C. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 25, 2007, at 17:38 , William Stein wrote: On 7/25/07, Justin C. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record: Built

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE Documentation brainstorming

2007-07-23 Thread Hamptonio
I would vote for putting that content in the Guided Tour part of the tutorial. I think the variety of documentation would be a little too fragmented otherwise. In my limited experience so far, new users of sage can already be confused about where they should look things up. -Marshall On Jul

[sage-devel] Re: build test help?

2007-07-23 Thread Hamptonio
Everything built OK on a powerpc laptop running OS X 10.4.10. The import scipy.optimize was fine as well apart from some compiler warnings: sage: import scipy.optimize /Users/mh/sage-2.0/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/testing/ numpytest.py:634: DeprecationWarning: ScipyTest is now

[sage-devel] sage 2.7 on ppc build problem

2007-07-22 Thread Hamptonio
Building from scratch on a ppc laptop, I run aground when it gets to lapack. I already had a gfortran installed which may be the problem. Here are the errors I get at the end of the install attempt: ( cd INSTALL; make; ./testlsame; ./testslamch; \ ./testdlamch; ./testsecond; ./testdsecnd;

[sage-devel] Re: popen3 deadlocks in polymake interface

2007-07-12 Thread Hamptonio
subprocess instead. Search Source Code: popen3 1. geometry/lattice_polytope.py 2. geometry/polytope.py 3. interfaces/ecm.py 4. misc/hg.py -Marshall On Jul 9, 10:35 pm, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I was doing some middleweight polytope calculations - meaning stuff

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-11 Thread Hamptonio
I would be willing to chip in some effort on the mathematica.sage file, although not in the very near future. I plan to begin migrating my undergraduate courses to sage from mathematica for fall semester 2008. I hope to convince other faculty do to the same, but it won't be easy. I am mainly

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-11 Thread Hamptonio
R, and then I could argue that we should use sage for consistency across the department; it would also start exposing our grad students to sage. -Marshall On Jul 11, 2:38 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/11/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be willing to chip

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-10 Thread Hamptonio
I agree that RR(expr) works well as an N(expr) replacement. It would be nice for mathematica migrators to actually have N() defined, although that does clutter up the namespace more. I hadn't realized that mathematica was so unusual in its behavior in this regard. However, there's another

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-10 Thread Hamptonio
that RDF(expr) works too, and is marginally to extremely faster, depending on the precision that RR is using. On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Hamptonio wrote: I agree that RR(expr) works well as an N(expr) replacement. It would be nice for mathematica migrators to actually have N() defined, although

[sage-devel] new version of phcpack interface (phc.py)

2007-07-03 Thread Hamptonio
I have heavily altered the PHCpack interface for sage, and posted the relevant files as sage-trac 399: http://www.sagemath.org:9002/sage_trac/ticket/399 Comments are very welcome. In order to get it working, I have temporarily removed some potential functionality - the ability to pass in

[sage-devel] Re: Implementing the Tropical Semiring

2007-07-02 Thread Hamptonio
I have some interest in such an implementation, although more as a user of it than an architect/developer. I would encourage you to do it in sage and not GAP. I can at least commit to help testing any code you work on. There might be some helpful overlap with Anders Jensen's gfan program,

[sage-devel] Re: Teach a man to fish

2007-07-02 Thread Hamptonio
mybundle.hg in SAGEHOME or SAGEHOME/devel, I forget which) On 5/9/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Now that my semester is winding down, I would like to learn to contribute more actively to SAGE. I do need a little hand-holding when it comes to hg and submitting patches. I think

[sage-devel] flatten list command

2007-06-28 Thread Hamptonio
I often want to flatten nested lists, and such a command (like Mathematica's Flatten) does not seem to be present in sage. I propose adding such a command into the misc.py. I am appending some candidate code below, and I will also put it on sage-trac (http://

[sage-devel] Re: flatten list command

2007-06-28 Thread Hamptonio
To be honest I didn't give it much thought. This is modified from the simplest code I could find that did the job. flatten(GF(5)) does return [0,1,2,3,4], while flatten([GF(5)]) returns [Finite Field of size 5]. However, you can do: flatten([GF(5)],ltypes = (list, tuple,

[sage-devel] Re: flatten list command

2007-06-28 Thread Hamptonio
of different implementations, and benchmarks. On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Hamptonio wrote: I often want to flatten nested lists, and such a command (like Mathematica's Flatten) does not seem to be present in sage. I propose adding such a command into the misc.py. I am appending some candidate code

[sage-devel] Re: flatten list command

2007-06-28 Thread Hamptonio
: index + 1] = list(new_list[index]) else: new_list.pop(index) break index += 1 return new_list On Jun 28, 7:40 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/28/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. I think I originally

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE notebook 2

2007-06-26 Thread Hamptonio
Hi, I am getting some funny errors now on the new notebook. In fact, the first thing I tried failed, defining the following ring: R7grev.w,r12,r13,r23,m1,m2,m3 = MPolynomialRing(QQ,7,order = degrevlex) gives the errors: ./t: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `(' ./t: line 2:

[sage-devel] Re: a SD4 video

2007-06-26 Thread Hamptonio
Small but the sound is good. Thanks for putting it up, I was disappointed I couldn't make it to SD4 and videos help a lot. -MH On Jun 22, 2:01 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you guys think of this video: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/sd4/ Size? Format?

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE notebook 2

2007-06-23 Thread Hamptonio
Nils Bruin has addressed most of the points I was going to make, but I did notice one minor thing in testing the new notebook - it actually effects the old one too: If you have a comment with a question mark, the question mark gets parsed by the help system. I consider this undesirable

[sage-devel] Re: printing MPolynomialRing

2007-06-19 Thread Hamptonio
I agree, the singular output is nice.I don't use such big rings, but I very often use two blocks: variables and parameters. On Jun 19, 7:26 am, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 14:55, Martin Albrecht wrote: Hi there, I would like to gather some options

[sage-devel] Re: Dynamical systems support

2007-06-08 Thread Hamptonio
http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~rclewley/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ProjectOverview#head-702b485f9c8e1152ee4a6cd65f2cc5974da6a8ea There's a link to the project overview, I forgot to put it in the original post. On Jun 8, 1:14 pm, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was just at the SIAM dynamical

[sage-devel] plot_vector_field

2007-06-05 Thread Hamptonio
At the moment, plot_vector_field is only capable of plotting product vector fields, which is unacceptable for my use of it in an ODE class. Since it is a crucial issue for my use, I plan on trying to extend it to handle arbitrary 2d fields, unless Alex Clemesha feels like doing it for me. Any

[sage-devel] Re: plot_vector_field

2007-06-05 Thread Hamptonio
One thing I can't figure out is how to make the arrows a constant length. Any suggestions? Thanks, Marshall On Jun 5, 9:39 am, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment, plot_vector_field is only capable of plotting product vector fields, which is unacceptable for my use

[sage-devel] Re: plot_vector_field

2007-06-05 Thread Hamptonio
OK, thanks. I will look into hacking the quiver function. It is unclear to me, from your response, if you understand the problem with plot_vector_field in its current form. The example from the wolfram site is somewhat misleading, since it uses a vector field of the form (f(x),g(y)), but this

[sage-devel] Re: more licensing discussion

2007-05-29 Thread Hamptonio
What email have you been using for John Stone? On May 28, 4:33 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/28/07, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just glad those are the only two sticky issues. I think we're fine with jsmath, as you said it's not linked--just

[sage-devel] Re: automatic sage upgrade notification?

2007-05-18 Thread Hamptonio
Pop-up windows about upgrades are really annoying. But a simple text output of the sort described, that doesn't ask for any input, would be a good idea I think. -M.Hampton On May 18, 11:18 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is a discussion of update/upgrade notification for

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: automatic sage upgrade notification?

2007-05-18 Thread Hamptonio
I would like to register to use sage. Marshall Hampton, SAGE user #1 :) On May 18, 3:47 pm, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote: On May 18, 10:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I HATE it when software phones home. There should be, at least, a config entry available to disable

[sage-devel] Re: a press release

2007-05-16 Thread Hamptonio
I could volunteer some time at the joint meetings at a table. I hope by then to be at least a small scale developer. I am very interested in using sage in the courses I teach, but I initially became interested for research reasons. It would be great to have a special session at the 2009 joint

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Kudos on a fabulous system!

2007-05-16 Thread Hamptonio
Absolutely. I've been thinking about this a fair amount lately as I would like to use sage in teaching undergrads (mostly multivariable calc, ODEs, and linear algebra). At first I was thinking of them installing it on their laptops, but most of them use Windows. Having a notebook server for a

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE-2.5 (!)

2007-05-09 Thread Hamptonio
Yes, I was upgrading. -MH On May 9, 12:14 pm, David Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Hamptonio wrote: Hi, I have the following 'make test' failure for sage 2.5 on a PPC OS X powerbook: The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage-main/sage

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.5.alpha3

2007-05-07 Thread Hamptonio
For my OS X intel mac pro: All tests passed! Total time for all tests: 1516.7 seconds I also fired up the notebook and ran a few pieces of my own code, no problems. Marshall Hampton On May 6, 11:24 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've posted sage-2.5.alpha3 here:

[sage-devel] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-04-30 Thread Hamptonio
I would love to attend, but during the week I am teaching a summer course. On Apr 27, 5:56 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello SAGE people: This is proposal for 4th SAGE days 2007, to be held the week of June 11-16, 2007 (a Monday thru Saturday) in the Mathematics Department of

[sage-devel] Re: Slightly OT: A SAGE Review

2007-04-06 Thread Hamptonio
My current bioinformatics textbook uses R for all its coding examples, and since I wanted to use python/biopython for my course, I tried to install the R-python interface. As is often the case with such things, it turned out to be far from self-contained, and I needed a whole bunch of libraries

[sage-devel] phc interface; numerical roots

2007-03-27 Thread Hamptonio
Hi, I am interested in using phc through sage, and it looks like phc.py is pretty broken. I've hacked it up to work in blackbox mode (i.e. you type 'phc -b inputfile outputfile' and it doesn't ask any questions), and if there is any interest I can try to clean up my efforts. Does anyone know

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.4-rc3

2007-03-25 Thread Hamptonio
I installed 2.4-rc3 on a powerpc g4 powerbook. I had 4 tests fail, but it looked like that was because I didn't install the gap packages. The four failures were: sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/graphs/graph.py sage -t devel/sage-main/sage/graphs/graph_isom.py sage -t

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.4-rc3

2007-03-25 Thread Hamptonio
/perm_gps/permgroup.py The dft.py is just a rounding randomness. But I don't know what would have caused the above three failures. On 3/25/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 2.4-rc3 on a powerpc g4 powerbook. I had 4 tests fail, but it looked like that was because I didn't

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.4-rc3

2007-03-25 Thread Hamptonio
PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned, they were all due to the lack of the gap packages. After installing those 2 optional packages, everything is fine: All tests passed! Total time for all tests: 3473.6 seconds -twice the time

[sage-devel] Re: Biopython package

2007-03-22 Thread Hamptonio
Bio.KDTree ? (y/N) running build On Mar 20, 12:39 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 9:30 am, Hamptonio wrote: Just to clarify: the downloading problem isn't biopython-specific - I can't get anything fromwww.sagemath.orgthrough sage, only from a browser

[sage-devel] Re: Biopython package

2007-03-20 Thread Hamptonio
/optional/biopython-1.43.spkg' sage: Failed to download package biopython-1.43 from www.sagemath.org On Mar 19, 10:52 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 March 2007 8:28 pm, Hamptonio wrote: Hi, I became interested in SAGE after I found it to be the easiest way to install

[sage-devel] Re: Biopython package

2007-03-20 Thread Hamptonio
about this once the package download problems get a little sorted out. Thanks again, Marshall On Mar 20, 7:53 am, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great! I am once again amazed by your speed. I set SAGE_SERVER as you said, but my attempt at installing fails to get the package. The output

[sage-devel] Biopython package

2007-03-19 Thread Hamptonio
Hi, I became interested in SAGE after I found it to be the easiest way to install cddlib and gmp, and now I am getting hooked. My research is very schizophrenic: besides some computational algebra/geometry coming from dynamical systems, I am also interested in mathematical biology and

[sage-devel] Re: ode_solver

2007-01-12 Thread Hamptonio
Very nice! Things seem fine so far after a few crude tests (on a Mac Pro, sage 1.6, no packages installed). I will try to push it harder soon. I think there is one small typo in the documentation: for the initial condition example shouldn't it be y_0=1,y_1=1, would do

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.0 !

2007-01-03 Thread Hamptonio
Hi, I would be interested in helping with Kantor's ODE solver , although I don't know what that is. I have a long-term goal of replacing Mathematica with SAGE for our department's ODE and Calc III labs, but I don't think the time is right yet. -Marshall Hampton University of Minnesota, Duluth