[sage-support] Re: Clearing variables and converting Integers to base(n) strings.

2007-05-27 Thread William Stein
On 5/27/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) In Mathematica there is a Clear function that is used to clear > variables and an example is Clear [ f, x ]. Is there an equivalent > function in Sage that does this? I have been using the var function > to clear variables but I was wondering

[sage-support] Re: Clearing variables and converting Integers to base(n) strings.

2007-05-27 Thread Timothy Clemans
To convert an integers to a base(n) string representation you type yourinteger.str(n) 3.str(2) '11' 50.str(4) '302' On 5/27/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am in the process of putting together a Sage tutorial aimed at high > school students and I have the following 2 q

[sage-support] Clearing variables and converting Integers to base(n) strings.

2007-05-27 Thread Ted Kosan
Hello, I am in the process of putting together a Sage tutorial aimed at high school students and I have the following 2 questions: 1) In Mathematica there is a Clear function that is used to clear variables and an example is Clear [ f, x ]. Is there an equivalent function in Sage that does this

[sage-support] Re: Cygwin vs VM

2007-05-27 Thread mabshoff
On May 27, 5:53 pm, davedo2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ooops, color me red of face. The very slow time was for an install of > SAGE > under a VM module of Kubuntu that I had previously built. I just tried > the SAGE > VM module (not the latest) and it only took 50+ secs for the same > image. I

[sage-support] Re: Cygwin vs VM

2007-05-27 Thread davedo2
Ooops, color me red of face. The very slow time was for an install of SAGE under a VM module of Kubuntu that I had previously built. I just tried the SAGE VM module (not the latest) and it only took 50+ secs for the same image. I am still curious about Cygwin though...Dave On May 27, 8:43 am, dav

[sage-support] Cygwin vs VM

2007-05-27 Thread davedo2
In the install doc for 2.4 it was mentioned that a Cygwin install for windows was being developed, but it's not mentioned in the 2.5 doc. I'm curious about relative performance of the two. On my windows PC the VM module is painfully slow when running the Notebook, but I only have 1G so VMware only

[sage-support] Re: Safari notebook

2007-05-27 Thread Nikos Apostolakis
"Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, all, > > I normally shy away from the notebook (being mouse-averse), but while > fiddling with the new Sage.app (which is a nice addition, BTW), I > noticed that when I reach the bottom of the visible page, and scroll > down to make the n