[sage-support] Re: no math module!

2011-09-21 Thread John H Palmieri
On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:15:49 PM UTC-7, kodda wrote: > > so Id better not use mac I guess... > Plenty of people here build Sage on Macs. OS X 10.7 is not supported, but 10.6.7 should be. I don't know if there are significant differences between Mac OS X 10.6.7 and Mac OS X Server

[sage-support] Re: no math module!

2011-09-21 Thread kodda
so Id better not use mac I guess... On 20 sep, 19:20, kod da wrote: > I didn t saw any before (when searching for 'error' or "fail" in the log) > and math.h is detected. > > *** Detecting C library capabilities... > > checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes > checking for strings.h... (c

[sage-support] notes on creating HTML5 video with Sage's animate()

2011-09-21 Thread Dan Drake
Hello, I wanted to create some video files for my students (we're studying the wave equation, which begs for animation) and post them on the web where they can be easily watched. The easiest way to do this is to create videos in formats understand by browsers that implement the HTML5 tag. (Basica

[sage-support] Re: problem with booleans?

2011-09-21 Thread Volker Braun
The rich comparison operators acting on symbolic ring elements/functions return symbolic equations/inequalities. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to construct symbolic relations. Note that the cast to bool is funky: If it returns False, it means "I can't decide". -- To post to this group, send

[sage-support] Re: problem with booleans?

2011-09-21 Thread kcrisman
Forwarding this to sage-support where it will get more readership. > f(x)=x**2-4 > g(x)=x**2+2*x+1 > f(2)==g(-1) > > What output should I get? I was expecting: True Am I crazy? Needless > to say I didn't! 0==0 Sage doesn't actually evaluate all booleans automatically. We try to leave them unev

[sage-support] Re: where to put Sage

2011-09-21 Thread kcrisman
> I'd say that if you really want to develop Sage with your students on a > joint computer then you need to have direct access to a Linux machine. Its Or a Mac, if you set up ssh availability or whatever - # 7, Maarten says so. But see # 3,4. > What solution is best for you really depends on ho

[sage-support] Re: help needed with Classes

2011-09-21 Thread Ken Levasseur
Thanks for the prompt tips. They were perfect! Ken -- 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 U

[sage-support] Re: help needed with Classes

2011-09-21 Thread Maarten Derickx
Note if you really want to do the things you want to do in the right way you have to learn about categories, parents, elements and the coercion model in sage. see http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/categories/primer.html and http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/structure/coerce.ht

[sage-support] Re: help needed with Classes

2011-09-21 Thread Maarten Derickx
z.domain() fails because [0,1] is not a function but a list try: z.domain z.operation() fails because operation expects two arguments but it gets none try: z.operation(4,3) display() fails because it calls failing functions -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com

[sage-support] Re: where to put Sage

2011-09-21 Thread Maarten Derickx
What solution is best for you really depends on how much you expect sage will get used. I definitly advise you to have your own sage notebook server running somewhere. And it would be best if that place was accesible from the WWW so student can also use it from home. (3,4) It would not be a lar

[sage-support] help needed with Classes

2011-09-21 Thread Ken Levasseur
Hi Everyone I'm just starting to learn Python and want to define a class that represents a set with a binary operation. In a Mathematica package I co-wrote for abstract algebra we used the term "groupoid" and I know that this isn't the conventional definition, but I'm using it below. I've rea

[sage-support] Re: where to put Sage

2011-09-21 Thread Volker Braun
I'd say that if you really want to develop Sage with your students on a joint computer then you need to have direct access to a Linux machine. Its not that hard to install, just give it a try. The easiest way to collaborate is if everybody installs Sage in his own home directory, then does his

[sage-support] where to put Sage

2011-09-21 Thread Ursula Whitcher
I'm trying to decide how and where to install Sage. I'm hoping you can all give me some guidance (and that this thread will be useful to other folks in a similar position). In the past, I have used Sage in three ways: 1) Via the notebook server at sagenb.org 2) Via an account on one of the resea