Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage's running too slowly

2012-08-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
are running out of RAM and are using the swap a lot, which makes things very slow. Of course, in that case doing *anything* inside the virtual machine would feel quite slow. -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- You received

Re: [sage-support] Calling up pi to nth decimal place.

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
you to know all the digits from the fraction point to the part you are interested in. (Try it yourself: I have a number N whose hexadecimal expansion is *3A*, where I don't know the * digits. What information does this give you about the decimal expansion?) -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza

Re: [sage-support] random problem

2012-07-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
this won't help. -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- 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

Re: [sage-support] Generator of Finite Field

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
: return a generator of the multiplicative group, then add Warning: This generator might change from one version of Sage to another. -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support

Re: [sage-support] exact vs approximate values

2011-08-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
to the value of the integral, and the second is an upper bound on the error of this approximation. Type sage: numerical_integral? to find out more about this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group

Re: [sage-support] Testing if polynomial is in ideal

2010-09-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
in I True sage: x in I False Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

Re: [sage-support] Those cookies again...

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
is willing to give it a shot. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

Re: [sage-support] Error installing cadabra.spkg

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
there is no pcre executable to run. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

Re: [sage-support] Sheaf Cohomology Calculations

2010-08-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
-1.3.1/share/doc/Macaulay2/Macaulay2Doc/html/_coherent_spsheaves.html and related pages, and if that does not help, ask on the Macaulay2 mailing list, see http://groups.google.com/group/macaulay2 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University

Re: [sage-support] VMware memory allocation: how to change it with version 4.5.2?

2010-08-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- 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

Re: [sage-support] Re: 4.5.1 or 4.5.2 for win?

2010-08-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
without any problems. So that's why I don't know what's going on at your end. The best I can do at the moment is to suggest renaming the sage-vmware folder and starting over from sage-vmware-4.5.2.zip (if you still have it). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer

Re: [sage-support] 4.5.1 or 4.5.2 for win?

2010-08-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
-vmware-4.5.2 that's up now. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

Re: [sage-support] Re: why does constructing this ring take forever?

2010-07-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
should be given the opportunity to *assert* that the number is prime (or non-prime). ... and Ctrl-C should be allowed to stop this. I tried this out, then pressed Ctrl-C and had to go to the office. It was still going more than 6 hours later. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org

Re: [sage-support] Is there any way to get old VMware versions?

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
labs (Windows only) and I'd like to use something more recent than 4.4.alpha0. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: [sage-support] Re: zeros of the Riemann zeta function

2010-06-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
the documentation is correct about this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

Re: [sage-support] Re: Testing if something is an instance of FreeModule

2010-05-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
: is_FreeModule(x) False Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- 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

Re: [sage-support] Re: power series bug?

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
with the power series code will jump in at this point. This type of thing has been noticed before (a couple of times!), see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3979 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5367 I guess it might be time to fix these :) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza

Re: [sage-support] projective duality for plane curves?

2010-04-28 Thread Alex Ghitza
...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support

Re: [sage-support] projective duality for plane curves?

2010-04-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
care about? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- 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

Re: [sage-support] ¡RuntimeError: Unable to determi ne branch?!

2010-04-24 Thread Alex Ghitza
/ local/ This is just a shot in the dark, but I think the problem might be that the directory where you put sage has a ` character in it. Can you try to rename the directory Deb`s to something else like Debs and try again? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer

Re: [sage-support] Re: reset()

2010-04-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
as the docstrings indicate. Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- 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

Re: [sage-support] Yamanouchi words

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
been the same since 4.3.1 Is there a class? functions? or is it just a random note about those words? -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com

Re: [sage-support] strange n()

2010-04-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
of precision. ... which you can figure out from the first two lines of the docstring for n, by typing n? at the Sage prompt :). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support

Re: [sage-support] Why does my little program bring my department's server to its knees?

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
on their findings. Either it will work well, which would give you a good argument to get your sysadmin to upgrade; or it will bring somebody else's server down, in which case there's probably some bug to fix. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University

Re: [sage-support] Re: Solve fails for a cubic

2010-03-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
(). And again, maybe there should be a nice way of doing this within symbolics and somebody else can comment on this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com

Re: [sage-support] Solve fails for a cubic

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
, 1)] Is this what you were hoping for? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support

Re: [sage-support] Re: WTF

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
something like q, r = 4357.quo_rem(3754) and get the quotient and the remainder in one go. * in Extended gcd, I think saying *the* values of r and s might mislead people into thinking that these values are uniquely determined; I would drop the the. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage Live CD (Alternativ based on Puppy Linux)

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
/SageLivePupv02.iso Here is the md5sum to check if the download is ok: 359f63129d4f3993bd890e4029b4d98f I'll leave this up until a copy makes it onto the official Sage pages. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au

Re: [sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Ghitza
of the major software that does this also allows you to turn it off (I'm thinking of Firefox here). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support

Re: [sage-support] sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
www.sagemath.org This will give you Sage 4.3.2, the latest release. Another option is to download the sources and build it yourself. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group

Re: [sage-support] using n.factor()

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
] sage: type(srange(5)[2]) type 'sage.rings.integer.Integer' sage: for i in srange(1, 5): print i.factor() 1 2 3 2^2 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group

Re: [sage-support] Re: polygon from list of points

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
poly.polar poly.vertices poly.facial_incidences poly.prism Feel free to explore these and ask more questions. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http

Re: [sage-support] Re: Cannot run Sage

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
might have it as well by now.) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage

Re: [sage-support] Cannot run Sage

2010-01-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:01:45 +1100, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: I will make a new binary distribution and upload it somewhere, and I'll send you the link when that's done. It's basically done; I am getting it compressed with lzma right now, so it should be ready in about 30 minutes

Re: [sage-support] Cannot run Sage

2010-01-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
.__use_workspace_cache and self.__make_workspace: RuntimeError: Unable to start gap Error importing ipy_profile_sage - perhaps you should run %upgrade? WARNING: Loading of ipy_profile_sage failed. -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http

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

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

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

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
are a more contentious matter. RSA thinks that the original algorithms due to Koblitz-Miller are not under patent, but that certain implementation techniques and newer algorithms are, see http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2325 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics

[sage-support] Re: Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:03:32 -0800 (PST), Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 4, 1:16 am, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: I finished creating binaries for 32-bit and 64-bit Archlinux... Hi, should I upload these to the mirror or do you try again with the fat binaries

[sage-support] Re: Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:03:32 -0800 (PST), Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 4, 1:16 am, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: I finished creating binaries for 32-bit and 64-bit Archlinux... Hi, should I upload these to the mirror or do you try again with the fat binaries

Re: [sage-support] Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
from source.) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

Re: [sage-support] Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:47:37 +1100, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: One of these days I will find out how to make binaries and I'll produce 32 and 64 bit binaries for archlinux. Sorry to be replying to myself. I read through the rest of README.txt (for the first time ever, I guess

Re: [sage-support] Modular Symbols and irregular cusps

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
it is only stated that it's injective. Thanks in advance, Kilian. -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: [sage-support] Re: Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
Harald, can you put these on the Linux binaries page? I will try to keep producing these for the next releases. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage

Re: [sage-support] Re: Problem installing sage on ArchLinux.

2010-01-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
No, I didn't because of the warning in README.txt. I can do it in the future, though. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support

Re: [sage-support] Fwd: sage q

2009-12-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
what Ciaran was saying). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support

Re: [sage-support] Re: Running Sage remotely via a web browser: How?

2009-12-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
do in your situation is to find out what firewall software is enabled on your machine and then google XYZ ABC configuration, where XYZ is your Linux distribution and ABC is the firewall software. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia

Re: [sage-support] Re: An abbreviation for lambda?

2009-12-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
plain wrong. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

Re: [sage-support] Re: Integer points of an elliptic curve

2009-12-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
). Definitely let us know if you're having any trouble installing a recent version, or if there are other features that you would like to have regarding elliptic curves. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au

[sage-support] weird error after starting Sage 4.2.1 in terminal

2009-11-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
. Has anyone else seen this? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage

Re: [sage-support] weird error after starting Sage 4.2.1 in terminal

2009-11-27 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:53:39PM -0800, William Stein wrote: I've never heard of this. The above could be caused by some file being corrupted. Delete $HOME/.sage/temp to get rid of this problem. Thanks, that did it. -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University

[sage-support] [sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
) sage: I.basis() [ (1, 0, -1, -2, -2), (0, 1, 1, 2, 2) ] sage: S = F + G sage: S.basis() [ (1, 0, 0, -1, 0), (0, 1, 0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1, 1, 0), (0, 0, 0, 0, 1) ] Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au

[sage-support] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:52:58PM -0800, Simon King wrote: Hi Alex! On 17 Nov., 22:12, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure I understand this paragraph.  Mathematically, 0*M is always the zero matrix and never the number 0.  So it seems to me that maple screws up

[sage-support] Re: Sage upgrade

2009-11-10 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:27:18PM -0800, Mikie wrote: Simon, No, I haven't any upgrade. Could you tell explicitly what to do for the upgrade? Just type sage -upgrade and see what happens. Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia

[sage-support] Arch Linux and Sage

2009-11-09 Thread Alex Ghitza
do it at the very beginning, instead of having to wait until R fails.) 2. The other option (more of a hackish workaround) is to do cp /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so /opt/sage-4.2/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/ and try make again. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics

[sage-support] Arch Linux and Sage

2009-11-08 Thread Alex Ghitza
-4.2/local/lib/ and then make again. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support

[sage-support] Re: Arch Linux and Sage

2009-11-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
didn't see this at all either. [...] -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[sage-support] Re: subclass of hyperelliptic curve class

2009-11-05 Thread Alex Ghitza
will be much appreciated. Thank you, David Holmes -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support

[sage-support] Re: symbolic/expression.pyx documentation patch

2009-10-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:11:18PM -0400, Mariah Lenox wrote: Would a sage developer please check in this (very minor) patch to the symbolic/expression.pyx documentation. [...] Up at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7265 -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics

[sage-support] Re: ubuntu 9.04 sage notebook LaTeX does not work : kpdf not availabe

2009-09-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
Sage. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-support] Re: English grammar of numbers

2009-08-29 Thread Alex Ghitza
. a university, or a Unix machine, or a unicorn. If the initial sound is closer to an ah (damn it's hard to write this down), one uses an, e.g. an unusual circumstance versus a usual circumstance. I hope this makes sense. Also, disclaimer: IANANES (I am not a native English speaker :) -- Alex

[sage-support] Re: Jocobi Symbol

2009-07-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
Try sage: kronecker_symbol(a, N) with a and N your favourite integers. Best, Alex On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Santanu Sarkarsarkar.santanu@gmail.com wrote: How Jacobi Symbol (a/N) can be calculate in Sage 4.1 -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University

[sage-support] Re: Bits problem

2009-07-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
It's now N.nbits() Best, Alex On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Santanu Sarkarsarkar.santanu@gmail.com wrote: How can find the number of bits of an integer in Sage 4.1 ? Say, N=1234. In Sage 3.1.1 it was N.bits() . -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University

[sage-support] Re: cube roots

2009-05-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
)) -1.25992104989487 sage: (-2.0)^(1/3) 0.629960524947437 + 1.09112363597172*I Clear. Thanks. Why this particular root? I believe that it is the real 3rd root of 2 times the natural primitive 6th root of 1, i.e. exp(2*pi*i/6). -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics

[sage-support] Re: memory leak?

2009-05-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
that Michael is describing when running loops where elliptic curves (or even just plane curves) are created. The patch seems to have no effect on those loops. Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza

[sage-support] Re: memory leak?

2009-05-02 Thread Alex Ghitza
situations? Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-support] Re: Sage in an xterm - some queries

2009-05-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
would probably need to tweak the preparser and play with ipython, but I don't know enough about this to actually do it... Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza

[sage-support] Re: Sage for Gentoo Linux

2009-03-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
and 4.0_etch.  Is one or the other of these a better choice for installing on a Gentoo Linux box? -John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195 -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University

[sage-support] Re: 3-D plots of affine varieties

2009-03-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
(check out the ones named SD14__Visualisation*, they have a bunch of examples of plots of varieties) /shameless self-referral Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza

[sage-support] Re: Special linear group on finite field

2009-03-15 Thread Alex Ghitza
, in gfq_gap_to_sage return F(K(g**e)) File finite_field_givaro.pyx, line 530, in sage.rings.finite_field_givaro.FiniteField_givaro.__call__ (sage/rings/finite_field_givaro.cpp:4005) TypeError: unable to coerce from a finite field other than the prime subfield -- Alex Ghitza

[sage-support] Re: Substitution

2009-03-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
) # and Sage will answer: 3 If you do F.substitute? you will get the documentation for the substitution method, with more examples of usage. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza

[sage-support] two questions about sage-mode

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
in handy when making changes to the sage library Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support

[sage-support] Fwd: two questions about sage-mode

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Ghitza
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM Subject: Re: two questions about sage-mode To: Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com On 11-Mar-09, at 3:48 PM, Alex Ghitza wrote: Hi folks, Quite a few people at Sage Days 14

[sage-support] Re: question on modular curves in Sage

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
of Magma from a paper I wrote long ago http://arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/0403548 and this question arose from that.) Thanks, David JOyner -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza

[sage-support] Re: server shutdown

2009-01-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
University luizfelipe.mart...@gmail.com -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com

[sage-support] Re: Error in abc.n(digits=5)

2008-12-26 Thread Alex Ghitza
.| -- sage: proofStrain,f_y,gamma_ms = 0.002, 250, 1.1499 sage: abc = 3150/(2000*(proofStrain + 5.00e-6*f_y/gamma_ms) + 7) sage: abc 239.108910891089 sage: abc.n(digits=5) 239.11 Best, Alex -- Alex

[sage-support] Re: Perhaps a bug

2008-12-13 Thread Alex Ghitza
)) 44.1881812310129 Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
The correct syntax is sin(x), not sin x. And so the following works: sage: plot(sin(x), (-1,1)) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza

[sage-support] Re: no plotting

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
0swaps Martin -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-support] Re: multiply a list by a constant

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
for x in [3,4]] does work. -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-support] Re: Sage server on a gentoo system

2008-04-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I don't think you need to do anything special. Just install sage the normal way (either from binaries or building from source), then run sage -notebook This can be run either as root or as a normal user (probably preferable).

[sage-support] Re: Sage server on a gentoo system

2008-04-19 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Stein wrote: | On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Alex Ghitza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The mysterious reason is that we enhanced the security of | the notebook for local users. Namely, you now *must* do | | sage -c notebook(address

[sage-support] trouble starting publicly-accessible notebook

2008-04-16 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I run a notebook server for one of the classes I'm teaching. It works fine with sage-2.10.2, but I have trouble with more recent versions. It might have something to do with the new version of twistd, but I really don't know anything

[sage-support] Re: trouble starting publicly-accessible notebook

2008-04-16 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Stein wrote: | On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Alex Ghitza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi folks, | | I run a notebook server for one of the classes I'm teaching. It works | fine with sage-2.10.2, but I have trouble with more recent versions

[sage-support] Re: Trying to graph cubic function f(x)=x^(1/3)

2008-02-22 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andy, I had the exact same question a few days ago. There are many issues involved here, but the short answer to your question (provided by Carl Witty) is: you can plot x^(1/3) with show(plot(lambda x : RR(x).nth_root(3), -10, 10),

[sage-support] desolve

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying the following: ~sage: t = var('t') ~sage: x = function('x', t) ~sage: de = lambda y: diff(y,t) - y^4 ~sage: desolve(de(x(t)),[x,t]) I get: 't+%c' But x(t)=t is clearly not a solution

[sage-support] Re: desolve

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
: | Solves a 1st or 2nd order linear ODE via maxima. | | On Feb 18, 2008 10:03 PM, Alex Ghitza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | I'm trying the following: | | ~sage: t = var('t') | ~sage: x = function('x', t) | ~sage: de = lambda y: diff(y,t) - y^4

[sage-support] Re: Another possible bug in parametric_plot/show

2008-02-16 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bill.p wrote: | Sorry, Carl, it's | http://www.billp.org/Fermat_1729.sws | | Here's my transcript of the notebook for David. Firefox wouldn't let | me copy/paste from the notebook! | Ended up pressing the 'print' link, then doing File/save-as

[sage-support] problems with modular symbols over finite fields

2007-11-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've been playing with spaces of modular symbols over finite fields, and I ran into two issues that seem to be separate (they're tickets #1231 and #1232 now): 1. doing ModularSymbols(1,8,0,GF(3)).simple_factors() gives -

[sage-support] Re: sage-2.8.5

2007-09-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Success on Intel Core 2 running Gentoo: Machine: Linux latitude 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Wed Jul 18 15:19:23 EDT 2007 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux real66m23.913s user64m31.750s sys 4m40.942s To install

[sage-support] Re: trouble compiling sage-2.8

2007-08-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
which make it appear that you have sage-2.8 installed. -- Joel On Monday 13 August 2007 11:47, Alex Ghitza wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile sage-2.8 and it breaks down on linbox_wrap, with the message: checking for correct ltmain.sh version... no configure: error: *** [Gentoo

[sage-support] Re: trouble compiling sage-2.8

2007-08-14 Thread Alex Ghitza
which make it appear that you have sage-2.8 installed. -- Joel On Monday 13 August 2007 11:47, Alex Ghitza wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile sage-2.8 and it breaks down on linbox_wrap, with the message: checking for correct ltmain.sh version... no configure: error: *** [Gentoo