[sage-support] Cool firefox extensions?

2008-11-22 Thread Sand Wraith
Hi all! Does anyone know any cool extensions for firefox? I know only ItIsAllText... For example i'd like to have syntax highlighting? (into the firefox text areas) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To

[sage-support] Plot in spherical coordinates.

2008-11-22 Thread A.Z.
I need to draw a plot in the spherical coordinate system, but I haven't found any examples in tutorial or reference manual. So, is there any way to do it in sage? And how to make grid in such kind of plots? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email

[sage-support] Font size with notebook and Firefox, OS/X

2008-11-22 Thread datajerk
Is there away to adjust the Typeset fontsize? It's a bit small with Firefox and OS/X. Clearly I can increase all the fonts, but would prefer to only change the Typeset output font size. The size used by jsmath is about right. Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Thomas Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the simple question, but I don't know if I am quitting sage properly or even if it matters. I am new to open source and have little experience using Terminal. I am using OS X 10.5.5 and Safari 3.2. If I start

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the simple question, but I don't know if I am quitting sage properly or even if it matters. I am new to open source and have little experience using Terminal. I am using OS X 10.5.5 and Safari 3.2. If I start

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Madden
On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden [snip] William and David, Thanks very much for the quick responses. I have been keeping an eye on Sage for about a year or so now but was unable to use it due to hardware and OS

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Thomas Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden [snip] William and David, Thanks very much for the quick responses. I have been keeping an eye on Sage for

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 22, 8:14 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Thomas Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden [snip] William and David, Thanks very

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Madden
On Nov 22, 8:16 pm, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote: On Nov 22, 8:14 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Thomas Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: I will have to if I ever want to get any sleep again. But only temporarily because I am having too much fun with it! Michael, I think I became aware of Sage about two years ago. At that time I was using Maple and was content but the idea

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Jason Grout
Thomas Madden wrote: I think I became aware of Sage about two years ago. At that time I was using Maple and was content but the idea behind Sage really interested me so I would periodically check up on it. Almost a year ago I noticed that my %CPU use was maxing out when I was working in a

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 22, 9:50 pm, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Madden wrote: Hi, I think I became aware of Sage about two years ago. At that time I was using Maple and was content but the idea behind Sage really interested me so I would periodically check up on it. Almost a year ago I

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tim Lahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: I will have to if I ever want to get any sleep again. But only temporarily because I am having too much fun with it! Michael, I think I became aware of Sage about two

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Madden
On Nov 22, 9:34 pm, Tim Lahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: I will have to if I ever want to get any sleep again. But only temporarily because I am having too much fun with it! Michael, I think I became aware of Sage about two years ago.

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: Jason Grout wrote: A while ago, I was running Sage on a ibook G4 with 10.3.x (but then upgraded to 10.4 when it came out). I don't remember any problems with Sage (other than long compilation times). I think that's not possible because I believe Sage has never

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:15 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: Tim, Here is a link to the discussion http://www.mapleprimes.com/forum/cpu-use I am a teacher and I used Maple quite a bit to make tests and handouts. It seemed to only happen in document mode where I was using pretty much just text and

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:01 AM, William Stein wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tim Lahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a fellow Maple user, I highly recommend that you look at the new symbolics in Sage, pynac. While support is still incomplete, it has capabilities more similar to

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Tim Lahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:01 AM, William Stein wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tim Lahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a fellow Maple user, I highly recommend that you look at the new symbolics in Sage, pynac. While

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:41 AM, William Stein wrote: Ginac (on which Pynac is based) doesn't have any nontrivial symbolic integration. So that's going to continue to depend on Maxima until we: * write our own * switch to using sympy for integration (sympy does some integration)

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 22, 10:56 pm, Tim Lahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:41 AM, William Stein wrote: SNIP It's my understanding that Axiom is best in breed for integration, so it may be best to use that. It is my understand that it cannot compete with MMA or Maple there and various

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: On Nov 23, 2008, at 2:00 AM, mabshoff wrote: It is my understand that it cannot compete with MMA or Maple there and various people have claimed that Maxima's integration code is better than the code in Axiom. I do not know if that is true.

[sage-support] Re: Quitting sage

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 2:34 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: I only know a tiny bit about symbolic integration, but mabshoff's statement that it will be a long path is certainly an understatement. What I would like to see happen soon is some of the basic cases solved in our own code, and then