[sage-support] Sage installation in windows

2010-05-21 Thread Tim Barrett
I'm a sage newbie. I have installed virtualbox and followed the installation instructions regarding importing the appliance into Virtualbox. Virtualbox does not import sage however. My experiences have been the same as Matthew Chan. I am running Vista. Regards Barrti -- To post to

[sage-support] Re: Saving/printing worksheets in 'windows OS

2010-05-21 Thread TimP
I tried your approach--and Firefox has never liked the suggested 'numerical' URLs that have been mentioned in SAGE releases. BUT--I rediscovered the online use of SAGE at http://www.sagenb.org. I had apparently tried it out before I started practicing with SAGE on my computer, because it had an

[sage-support] Re: Are there statisticians using Sage?

2010-05-21 Thread TimP
As a Research Forester/Statistician I have had to deal with sophisticated math issues for my whole career (and even more so now that I am retired (and still working). My/our work was limited by the lack of 'affordable' math packages available to use. You'd be amazed at what an applied

[sage-support] Re: Sage being cheeky

2010-05-21 Thread Simon King
Hi! On May 21, 2:56 am, Alasdair amc...@gmail.com wrote: sage: diff(gamma(x))   gamma(x)*psi(x) sage: psi(1) NameError: name 'psi' is not defined Now is that cheeky or what - Sage giving an answer with a function which is not defined! Probably I am painting a bike shed here, and some

[sage-support] Re: Sage being cheeky

2010-05-21 Thread Simon King
PS: On May 21, 10:05 am, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: [snip] So, naively, my first guess was that the Gamma function is known as Gamma to Sage. The latex name is in fact upper case: sage: latex(gamma(x)) \Gamma\left(x\right) So, if you want to work with psi, whatever this

Re: [sage-support] Sage being cheeky

2010-05-21 Thread Burcin Erocal
Hi Alasdair, On Thu, 20 May 2010 18:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Alasdair amc...@gmail.com wrote: sage: diff(gamma(x)) gamma(x)*psi(x) sage: psi(1) NameError: name 'psi' is not defined Now is that cheeky or what - Sage giving an answer with a function which is not defined! This was fixed a

[sage-support] How to replace RandomArray, RNG, whrandom and LinearAlgebra ?

2010-05-21 Thread zetro
Above mentioned modules doesn't work in newer versions of python i guess? Has their name only changed or what other modules should i use so that i could translate in Sage older python code with those modules ? Also, i have a piece of code below that doesn't work anymore. Old python also. Isn't

[sage-support] Pop out help window

2010-05-21 Thread kcrisman
When tabbing out some ? help in the notebook, this thing comes up which I can pop out. But when I do it, it isn't very useful; I can just move it around (only inside the browser window), but it doesn't seem to be printable (although it mentions that it's not printed). Am I missing something? I

[sage-support] SAGE being extremely slow with multivariable poly rings - is this normal?

2010-05-21 Thread Alex P
Hi all, I tried the following code in SAGE and it seems that it is taking way too long -- | Sage Version 4.3.4, Release Date: 2010-03-19 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.

Re: [sage-support] SAGE being extremely slow with multivariable poly rings - is this normal?

2010-05-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 21, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Alex P wrote: Hi all, I tried the following code in SAGE and it seems that it is taking way too long -- | Sage Version 4.3.4, Release Date: 2010-03-19 | | Type notebook() for