[sage-support] Re: problem installing SAGE 2.8.10

2007-11-02 Thread didier deshommes
On 11/2/07, Paul Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take the opportunity to ask why the unknown 'x' is special in Sage: Mostly convenience since most people use x for a polynomial or the name of a variable. In earlier versions x was defined to be the polynomial x, now it's a symbolic

[sage-support] Re: [sage-devel] Re: numpy vs. in-place optimizations

2007-11-02 Thread William Stein
On 11/2/07, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: numpy arrays are extremely flexible, with broadcasting, view semantics and in-place operations being the most important reason why. For example, if x is an array, then x[3:5] is a view of part of x, and I can adjust the entries in just

[sage-support] Re: numpy vs. in-place optimizations

2007-11-02 Thread Dan Christensen
Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is due to the inplace operator stuff using refcounts to determine if it's safe to mutate. The simple workaround is to not use numpy arrays of SAGE objects. Another question is why would one do so (i.e. what is lacking in the SAGE linear

[sage-support] Re: side effect problem of numpy.dot with Integer and QQ arrays.

2007-11-02 Thread Manny
On Oct 31, 11:40 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: numpy arrays are multidimensional, etc., and are much more sophisticated than Sage matrices. All Sage does is 2-dimensional nxm matrices, and isn't really designed for sophisticated reshaping, especially in the multidimensional

[sage-support] Re: segment fault in Singular-- return error?

2007-11-02 Thread mabshoff
[CC to Hannes Schönemann] On Nov 3, 7:05 am, Ursula Whitcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ursula, Hannes, I can reproduce this issue with the Singular shipped with Sage 2.8.11, but originally it happened with Sage 2.8.10, also. The log is from sage.math, i.e. and x86-64 Linux box. William