[sage-support] Re: citing SAGE

2007-07-02 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: William Stein wrote: On 6/27/07, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some journals require an author field, eg http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/ieee.html If the author isn't William Stein then who should it be? Some examples: 1. GAP uses The GAP Group

[sage-support] solve() question

2007-07-02 Thread Ted Kosan
Does anyone have any thoughts on why solve() returns [R == -1*I*E] in the following SAGE session? Thanks in advance :-) Ted -- | SAGE Version 2.6, Release Date: 2007-06-02| | Type notebook() for the

[sage-support] Re: solve() question

2007-07-02 Thread David Harvey
Because I is the square root of -1. sage: type(I) class 'sage.functions.constants.I_class' sage: type(J) class 'sage.calculus.calculus.SymbolicVariable' sage: type(R) class 'sage.calculus.calculus.SymbolicVariable' Yeah this is pretty confusing if it's not what you expected. david On

[sage-support] Re: solve() question

2007-07-02 Thread William Stein
On 7/2/07, David Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I is the square root of -1. Yep. If you want I to be a symbolic variable do sage: I = var('I') sage: a = E == I * R sage: solve(a, R) [R == (E/I)] In general, it is always a good idea to use the var command to explicitly construct