[sage-support] Re: Application/Use of Sage in IT company or Industries

2012-05-13 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2012-05-10, Priyanka Kapoor anjalicool.kapoor...@gmail.com wrote: I want to ask that what is the use of sage? Why should we use it? Where its being used till date? These questions might be simple and i want to know before i go deep in sage. Please everyone on this mailing list reply that

Re: [sage-support] Re: Application/Use of Sage in IT company or Industries

2012-05-13 Thread William Stein
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Dima Pasechnik dimp...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-05-10, Priyanka Kapoor anjalicool.kapoor...@gmail.com wrote: I want to ask that what is the use of sage? Why should we use it? Where its being used till date? These questions might be simple and i want to know

[sage-support] Unintuitive behavior of round()

2012-05-13 Thread Lorenzo
Hi everyone, first time sage user here. I am puzzled by the behavior of round(): sage: t=sqrt(4320373582484102551677386613153502) sage: floor(t) 65729548777426599 sage: round(t) #everything as expected, floor ≤ round ≤ ceil 65729548777426600 sage: ceil(t) 65729548777426600 sage: u =

Re: [sage-support] Re: Application/Use of Sage in IT company or Industries

2012-05-13 Thread Robert Miller
On Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:12:32 AM UTC-7, William wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Dima wrote: recently there was a post on sage-devel from Robert Miller (who wrote quite a bit of Sage code): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/Hz9tagOntyg/CZLpRcF8XAkJ soliciting job

Re: [sage-support] Unintuitive behavior of round()

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/13/2012 12:50 PM, Lorenzo wrote: u = sqrt(43203735824841025516773866131535024) We actually have a doctest confirming that it's awful =) This would probably be an easy project. Definition: u.round(self) Source: def round(self): Round this expression to the

Re: [sage-support] Re: Application/Use of Sage in IT company or Industries

2012-05-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 05/13/12 06:36 PM, Robert Miller wrote: I think that Sage can be a very hard sell for sysadmin/ops type people in industry, because it is a very big install Sage is similar in size to Mathematica, and probably MATLAB and Maple too. The binary installations for all of these packages are

Re: [sage-support] Re: Application/Use of Sage in IT company or Industries

2012-05-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 05/13/12 06:36 PM, Robert Miller wrote: I think that Sage can be a very hard sell for sysadmin/ops type people in industry, because it is a very big install Sage is similar in size to Mathematica, and