[sage-support] Re: Substitution

2010-01-21 Thread Stochastix
Thanks. Unfortunately, for my particular example, it didn't work as is -- | Sage Version 4.2, Release Date: 2009-10-24 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.|

[sage-support] Re: Substitution

2010-01-21 Thread Alasdair
This simple minded approach seems to work for me: sage: a(x)=2*x sage: b(x)=a(x)^2 sage: g(x)=diff(b(x),x) sage: g(2) 16 -Alasdair On Jan 21, 2:14 am, Stochastix laurent.decreusef...@gmail.com wrote: I have the following problem : I have two nested functions a=lambda x: 2*x b=lambda x:

[sage-support] Re: Substitution

2010-01-21 Thread Jason Bandlow
Hi, I think what Minh was trying to say is that these lines: Stochastix wrote: sage: a=lambda x: alpha*x-mu1+mu2 sage: f=lambda x: (a(x)*b-c+sqrt((a(x)*b-c)^2+4.0*a(x)*b*r*mu1))/(2*a (x)*mu1) sage: g=lambda x: (r+l-mu1*f(x))/mu2 sage: prev=lambda x: f(x)/(f(x)+g(x)) sage: k=lambda x:

[sage-support] TinyMCE boxes small/unusable, Firefox, Vista

2010-01-21 Thread Nathan Carter
Dear Sage users, I'm using Sage in a class this semester, and all my students are running Vista. I've instructed them to get sagenb.org accounts and to use Firefox. All going well so far, until they try to shift-click above a cell to get a TinyMCE editor. Many of them report the following

[sage-support] parametric_plot3d() not producing surfaces as desired

2010-01-21 Thread Thomas Scofield
I do not recall having trouble with parametric_plot3d() before today. I'm still not having trouble except when I try using it to plot a surface. I am running Sage through a browser (Firefox) at the website www.sagenb.org , so I presume it is the latest in programming. A simple command

[sage-support] Defaults for plots

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Witt
Is there a way to specify default parameters for graphics? One specific example, is that I would like to specify that the default color for function plots, lines, points, etc be 'black' instead of 'blue'. -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: [sage-support] Defaults for plots

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to specify default parameters for graphics? One specific example, is that I would like to specify that the default color for function plots, lines, points, etc be 'black' instead of 'blue'. sage: plot.options

Re: [sage-support] parametric_plot3d() not producing surfaces as desired

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Thomas Scofield scofi...@calvin.edu wrote: I do not recall having trouble with parametric_plot3d() before today.  I'm still not having trouble except when I try using it to plot a surface. I am running Sage through a browser (Firefox) at the website

Re: [sage-support] Defaults for plots

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Witt
On 01/21/2010 07:35:13 AM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to specify default parameters for graphics? One specific example, is that I would like to specify that the default color for function plots, lines, points, etc

Re: [sage-support] Defaults for plots

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/21/2010 07:35:13 AM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to specify default parameters for graphics? One specific example, is that I would like to

Re: [sage-support] Defaults for plots

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Witt
On 01/21/2010 08:16:22 AM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/21/2010 07:35:13 AM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to specify default parameters for graphics?

Re: [sage-support] TinyMCE boxes small/unusable, Firefox, Vista

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
I have cc'd this email to http://groups.google.com/group/sage-notebook On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Nathan Carter nathancart...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sage users, I'm using Sage in a class this semester, and all my students are running Vista.  I've instructed them to get sagenb.org

Re: [sage-support] Defaults for plots

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/21/2010 08:16:22 AM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/21/2010 07:35:13 AM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com

[sage-support] restarting a nb server

2010-01-21 Thread John Cremona
Advice needed on restarting a notebook server (now that I have successfully built 4.3.1). I guess that the admin for sagenb.org must do this all the time, so all this must surely be easy, but I want to double check. There are several users with accounts -- how can I tell which are logged in? I

[sage-support] Re: f2py on mac

2010-01-21 Thread gsw
Cool. I have to build the OS X 10.4 versions of Sage 4.3.1 right now, but will have a look at that one. Thanks! Cheers, Georg -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more

[sage-support] Re: restarting a nb server

2010-01-21 Thread John Cremona
On Jan 21, 8:49 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:14 PM, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: Advice needed on restarting a notebook server (now that I have successfully built 4.3.1). I guess that the admin for sagenb.org must do this all the

[sage-support] Changing generators of the unit group of a number field

2010-01-21 Thread jtyard
Is there a way to change the generators used in the internal representation of the unit group of a number field? I am currently doing this by hand in an ad-hoc manner and it is very tedious, not to mention prone to mistakes. To be concrete, consider the following: sage:

[sage-support] NIST elliptic curves in the Cremona database?

2010-01-21 Thread Alasdair
I'm trying to find out if the NIST recommended elliptic curves (appendix to http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-3/fips_186-3.pdf) are in the Cremona database. I can't seem to find anything online; does anybody here know? Thanks, Alasdair -- To post to this group, send email to

Re: [sage-support] NIST elliptic curves in the Cremona database?

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi Alasdair, My initial reaction is to point out that the NIST elliptic curves are over finite fields, while the Cremona database contains elliptic curves over the rational numbers. I don't see why we couldn't have a database with the NIST recommended elliptic curves available in Sage, though.

Re: [sage-support] NIST elliptic curves in the Cremona database?

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alasdair, My initial reaction is to point out that the NIST elliptic curves are over finite fields, while the Cremona database contains elliptic curves over the rational numbers. I don't see why we couldn't have a

Re: [sage-support] NIST elliptic curves in the Cremona database?

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:36:47 -0800, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't those curves owned by some company though, and one can't use them without paying license fees? I can't believe I just wrote that sentence. There's some info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents It

[sage-support] Re: Substitution

2010-01-21 Thread Jason Grout
Stochastix wrote: I have the following problem : I have two nested functions a=lambda x: 2*x b=lambda x: a(x)^2 Everything goes well as long as I want to compute the derivative of b but how can I evaluate this derivative at x=2. I tried g=lambda x: diff(b(x),x) g(x) returns 8*x as expected

Re: [sage-support] LaTeX text

2010-01-21 Thread Erik Lane
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Thomas Scofield scofi...@calvin.eduwrote: I am creating notebooks to publish for my students to use in a spring course. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am interspersing commands, output of those commands, and explanatory text. The only way I know to create the

[sage-support] Saving pictures of 3d plots

2010-01-21 Thread Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona
I wish to improve animate so that it supports 3d plots (I want to make an animation of a moving 3d curve). I've been told that animate does this by joining several png files. However, I've found no practical way to save pictures of 3d plots. I want let's say i have: sage: v=(sin(z+t),0,t) sage:

Re: [sage-support] Saving pictures of 3d plots

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona algebraicame...@gmail.com wrote: I wish to improve animate so that it supports 3d plots (I want to make an animation of a moving 3d curve). I've been told that animate does this by joining several png files. This bug was fixed at the