Re: [sage-support] What's easiest way to get Sage running on Windows for non-techie students?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Chris Seberino wrote: > What's easiest way to get Sage running on Windows for non-techie > students? > > They'll be lost if the instructions are complicated. > > Possible to wrap a VMWare + Ubuntu + Sage blob into one big Windows > exe file that requires no set up?

[sage-support] Re: What's easiest way to get Sage running on Windows for non-techie students?

2010-10-10 Thread fitzsnaggle
You guys can suggest Pythonxy for windows. It doesn't have all the same modules I've heard, but it is based on scipy and numpy, and installs as an exe. It does require a little more knowledge of python to get started, but not much. On Oct 10, 8:28 am, Chris Seberino wrote: > > On Oct 9, 7:24 pm,

[sage-support] Re: initial ideal

2010-10-10 Thread Simon King
Hi Andrew! On 10 Okt., 19:25, andrew ewart wrote: > i tried to take this into consideration > giving the following code > > P. = PolynomialRing(QQ,order='neglex') > I = Ideal(x^5 + y^4 +z^3, x^3 + y^2 + z^2 -1) > print I > gb=I.groebner_basis() > rgb=Ideal(gb).interreduced_basis() > bgr=Ideal(rgb

Re: [sage-support] Array

2010-10-10 Thread Mike Hansen
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Santanu Sarkar wrote: > How one can define an array of length 1? > For example an array of length 4 is X = [1, 2, 1, 3]. In that example, you are actually defining a Python *list* rather than an array. If you want to create a list of length 1, one way to

[sage-support] Re: initial ideal

2010-10-10 Thread andrew ewart
i tried to take this into consideration giving the following code P. = PolynomialRing(QQ,order='neglex') I = Ideal(x^5 + y^4 +z^3, x^3 + y^2 + z^2 -1) print I gb=I.groebner_basis() rgb=Ideal(gb).interreduced_basis() bgr=Ideal(rgb) ir=Ideal(f.Im() for f in bgr) print 'with revlex order' print rgb p

[sage-support] Re: initial ideal

2010-10-10 Thread Simon King
Hi Andrew! On 10 Okt., 16:58, andrew ewart wrote: > hmm sage doesnt seem to recognise the Im() command How do you define your polynomials? Are you sure that you *do* define polynomials? Examples: 1. This is a polynomial: sage: R. = QQ[] sage: p = x^2+3*x*y+y^3 sage: p.lm() y^3 sage: type(p)

[sage-support] Re: What's easiest way to get Sage running on Windows for non-techie students?

2010-10-10 Thread Chris Seberino
> On Oct 9, 7:24 pm, Jason Grout wrote: Oh wait. I see your point now. *I* didn't have to install VMWare because I probably installed it a long time ago. I assumed that meant you didn't need to install VMWare anymore. Yeaa video would be nice for that extra step too. cs -- To post to

[sage-support] Re: What's easiest way to get Sage running on Windows for non-techie students?

2010-10-10 Thread Chris Seberino
On Oct 9, 7:24 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > [1]http://sagemath.org/download-windows.html That link has a WinZip'd VMWare blob that works fine. I didn't even read the directions...I just double clicked on binaries in the extracted directory until a VMWare Linux virtual session appeared with a Sage ic

[sage-support] Re: initial ideal

2010-10-10 Thread andrew ewart
hmm sage doesnt seem to recognise the Im() command -- 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 options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL:

[sage-support] Array

2010-10-10 Thread Santanu Sarkar
How one can define an array of length 1? For example an array of length 4 is X = [1, 2, 1, 3]. -- 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 options, visit this group at

Re: [sage-support] initial ideal

2010-10-10 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Sunday 10 October 2010, andrew ewart wrote: > how do i generate the initial ideal of a reduced grobner basis? sage: P. = PolynomialRing(QQ) sage: I = sage.rings.ideal.Katsura(P) sage: gb = I.groebner_basis() sage: J = Ideal(f.lm() for f in gb) sage: J Ideal (z^3, y^2, y*z, x) of Multivariate

[sage-support] initial ideal

2010-10-10 Thread andrew ewart
how do i generate the initial ideal of a reduced grobner basis? -- 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 options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage

Re: [sage-support] Re: What's easiest way to get Sage running on Windows for non-techie students?

2010-10-10 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/10/10 04:19 AM, kcrisman wrote: Yeah, it's still really annoying to get the VMWare itself, though, and requires giving out semi-personal information, which is perhaps not what one would want to get students interested in mathematical software... I expect students have to do the same to ru