[sage-support] Re: multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 18, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Alex Ghitza wrote: > Hmmm. As far as I know you can use _ as a placeholder for a > variable, and it's meant for this kind of use (where you don't > really want to introduce a new variable name). It's strange that > it doesn't work for you. Can you post the e

[sage-support] Re: multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread pong
Hi Alex, Sorry, it does work---it was a spacing problem. I should have copy- and-paste yours. Thanks Pong On Oct 18, 10:14 pm, "Alex Ghitza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm.  As far as I know you can use _ as a placeholder for a variable, and > it's meant for this kind of use (where you d

[sage-support] Re: multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hmmm. As far as I know you can use _ as a placeholder for a variable, and it's meant for this kind of use (where you don't really want to introduce a new variable name). It's strange that it doesn't work for you. Can you post the error message that you get? I guess it's not a big deal since you

[sage-support] Re: multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread pong
Hi Alex Thanks for the quick reply. By _ you mean a variable? I tried your syntax but it does not work. However, [2*x for x in [3,4]] does work. On Oct 18, 9:26 pm, "Alex Ghitza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure this is what you're hoping for, but it does the trick: > > sage: [

[sage-support] Re: multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
I'm not sure this is what you're hoping for, but it does the trick: sage: [2*_ for _ in [3,4]] [6,8] Best, Alex On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:22 PM, pong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any bulit-in function of sage which can multiply each element > of a list of numbers by a constant? > >

[sage-support] multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread pong
Is there any bulit-in function of sage which can multiply each element of a list of numbers by a constant? e.g. I want 2*[3,4] = [6,8] without calling pari/gp. Thanks in advance --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 18, 12:56 am, "Alex Ghitza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry Martin, I completely missed the second sage: prompt in your original > email. > > It's very likely that the problem is due to sage -upgrade.  I don't know > enough about these things to give you better advice than "start over

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
Sorry Martin, I completely missed the second sage: prompt in your original email. It's very likely that the problem is due to sage -upgrade. I don't know enough about these things to give you better advice than "start over with a fresh download of Sage", and you've mentioned that this might not b

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Martin Rubey
I should have added: I did a sage -upgrade before. Doing sage -upgrade again I now get: Finished extraction There is no spkg-install script, no setup.py, and no configure script, so I do not know how to install /home/martin/sage-3.1.1/spkg/standard/sage-3.1.2.spkg. make: *** [installed/sage-3.1.

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Martin Rubey
"Alex Ghitza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The correct syntax is sin(x), not sin x. And so the following works: > > sage: plot(sin(x), (-1,1)) please reread what I typed. Yes I made this error, but after that, I used the correct syntax. Martin --~--~-~--~~~---~

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
The correct syntax is sin(x), not sin x. And so the following works: sage: plot(sin(x), (-1,1)) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-support] no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Martin Rubey
I am preparing the course for next week, but: sage: plot(sin x, (-1,1)) File "", line 1 plot(sin x, (-Integer(1),Integer(1))) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax sage: plot(sin(x), (-1,1)) --