Re: [sage-support] Polynomial comparison

2020-06-28 Thread Rob H.
ion of positivity, checking if something is > 0 feels like the right duck-typing thing to do. I guess I'll try some other way. On Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 12:40:54 AM UTC-10, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 10:38 AM Rob H. > > wrote: > > > > &

[sage-support] Polynomial comparison

2020-06-27 Thread Rob H.
Hi all, So I was surprised to find out that asking if a polynomial is > 0 doesn't raise an error. Now, maybe there's a good reason why it returns True and I'm too tired to think about why. At the very least, here is some disturbing behaviour. sage: R. = PolynomialRing(QQ) sage: x > x-1 True

[sage-support] missing module gmpy2

2018-10-26 Thread Rob Gross
ted module 'gmpy2' [sagelib-8.4] sage/rings/real_double.pyx: cannot find cimported module 'gmpy2' [sagelib-8.4] sage/rings/real_mpfr.pyx: cannot find cimported module 'gmpy2' Sage starts find after the doc build completed, but I was wondering about that error. Thanks.--Rob -- You received th

[sage-support] Re: p.collect(x).collect(y) only collects y

2018-08-19 Thread rob . webb . jr
I'm using a Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, currently with Xfce4, but also Lxde, on a Dell G7 with i7-8750H cpu and 16 gb of ram, and I built Sage version 8.3 from source. The text I'm working from say that I should get this result: sage: p.collect(x).collect(y) sage: 2*b*y*x^2 +

[sage-support] p.collect(x).collect(y) only collects y

2018-08-19 Thread rob . webb . jr
Hi. I'm using this polynomial: p = z*x^2 + x^2 − (x^2 + y^2 )*(a*x − 2*b*y) + z*y^2 + y^2 and when I issue this command: p.collect(x).collect(y) to Sage 8.3 in the terminal, I get this response: -a*x^3 + 2*b*x^2*y + 2*b*y^3 - (a*x - z - 1)*y^2 + x^2*z + x^2 Notice that only y is collected.

[sage-support] sage upgrade to 8.2 hangs at cddlib

2018-05-10 Thread Rob Gross
My computer must be cursed today. Now the upgrade to cddlib hangs with a very strange error message: configure: error: ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken alias in your environment configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! Check your system clock

[sage-support] Upgrade to 8.2 hangs at ncurses

2018-05-09 Thread Rob Gross
Hi, Mac OS 10.13.4. Upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2. Hangs at [ncurses-6.0.p0] config.status: creating include/ncurses_cfg.h This happened when I used "sage --upgrade" and it occurs again with "sage -i ncurses". I will try to build from scratch and see if that works any better. -- You received

[sage-support] Test Site Applications

2017-12-09 Thread Rob Beezer
I need to package all the test site applications into one massive PDF, a mildly tedious affair. This cannot be an appendix, but should go in "Supplemental Material". But it should not look like effusive "letters of support." The AMATYC material follows the guidelines perfectly - just a

[sage-support] How do I make assume conclude basic consequences?

2016-10-08 Thread Rob H.
a) can't handle? Is there some trick I can use without manually assuming each such case that arises? Thanks, Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

[sage-support] Re: Sage Interacts in R

2016-06-17 Thread Rob Beezer
k, it's completely separate. @interact is only > available for Sage itself. (Cc:ing Rob B in case he has an idea for how > this could fit into MBX.) > It would be a nice fit for MathBook XML, but you need to place the "shiny-app" on a server, which you set up yourself (o

[sage-support] Benchmarking space in a sage computation

2016-04-17 Thread Rob H.
(with a clean boot of sage to begin with) might make sense, but I just don't know. Is there a standard way to do such a benchmark? The code we are using is written as new modules and so is fully incorporated in the copy of sage we are running (in case that matters). Thanks, Rob -- You received

[sage-support] Can't login to trac

2015-11-11 Thread Rob H.
Hi, I tried logging in to trac and my credentials were refused. Acknowledging it was possible that I changed my password a while back and forgot, I reset my password. The password sent to me by email also doesn't work. Is the login system down? Thanks, Rob -- You received this message

Re: [sage-support] Residue of the exponential function

2015-11-06 Thread Rob Beezer
Dear Nils, Thanks for the careful explanation. There's a good reason I don't teach this stuff (even if I enjoy it!). Rob On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 7:35:47 PM UTC-8, Nils Bruin wrote: > > On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 5:11:42 PM UTC-8, Rob Beezer wrote: >> >> LIke

Re: [sage-support] Residue of the exponential function

2015-11-05 Thread Rob Beezer
> residue there is surely undefined ? > On Nov 5, 2015 3:53 AM, "Rob Beezer" <goo...@beezer.cotse.net > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 7:37:58 PM UTC-8, vdelecroix wrote: >>> >>> z/2 vs 2/z >>> >> >

[sage-support] Residue of the exponential function

2015-11-04 Thread Rob Beezer
should be 2? Thanks, Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send ema

Re: [sage-support] Residue of the exponential function

2015-11-04 Thread Rob Beezer
On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 7:37:58 PM UTC-8, vdelecroix wrote: > > z/2 vs 2/z > Ouch! Sorry. Wrong input, same output. z = var('z') f = e^(2/z) f.residue(z) Result: 0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe

[sage-support] Maxima default mode

2015-05-29 Thread Rob mailuser
it! Apologies for wasting people's time, Regards, Rob. edit flag offensive delete link more add a comment -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support

[sage-support] Maxima default mode

2015-05-25 Thread Rob mailuser
Hi, I am using the Sage app on my iPad and I would like to reuse some maxima scripts. When I try: default_mode(maxima) fpprec ss: 44 ss-2 I get: File ipython-input-1-156fa75fa7d5, line 4 ss: Integer(44) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Can anyone help? Regards, Rob. -- You

Re: [sage-support] Sage-5.0 under solaris 10

2012-05-18 Thread Rob McMahon
On 17/05/2012 20:41, David Kirkby wrote: On 17 May 2012 16:57, Rob McMahonrobmcmaho...@gmail.com wrote: Answering my own question: it's this line from spkg/build/prereq-1.0/configure{,.ac} if test x`file $SAGE_FORTRAN_LIB | grep 32-bit | grep \dynamic lib\ ` = 'x' Having set my path up

[sage-support] Sage-5.0 under solaris 10

2012-05-17 Thread Rob McMahon
First attempt to compile sage-5.0 on Solaris 10: uname -a SunOS mimosa 5.10 Generic_141444-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220 Solaris Failed at the first post with: checking for /usr/local/gnu/lib/libgfortran.so... yes configure: The environment variable configure:

Re: [sage-support] Sage-5.0 under solaris 10

2012-05-17 Thread Rob McMahon
On 17/05/2012 16:26, Rob McMahon wrote: First attempt to compile sage-5.0 on Solaris 10: uname -a SunOS mimosa 5.10 Generic_141444-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220 Solaris Failed at the first post with: checking for /usr/local/gnu/lib/libgfortran.so... yes configure

[sage-support] Re: Subfields of finite fields

2012-04-08 Thread Rob Beezer
Thanks, David. I'll watch those tickets. -Rob On Sunday, April 8, 2012 1:16:52 AM UTC-7, David Loeffler wrote: There have been at least two attempts to implement this; see #8335, and more recently, #11938. Sadly both of these are needs work. It would be great if someone could finish

[sage-support] Subfields of finite fields

2012-04-07 Thread Rob Beezer
be appreciated. Thanks, Rob -- 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: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-support] Re: var: a more compact declaration possible?

2012-02-25 Thread Rob Beezer
Is this better? sage: [var('b'+str(i), latex_name=\\beta_+str(i),domain='real') for i in range(4)] [b0, b1, b2, b3] sage: latex(b3) \beta_3 Rob On Feb 25, 2:08 am, Rolandb roland.vandenbr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is a more compact declaration possible / supported? var('b0',latex_name

[sage-support] Re: Notebook mode poset element selection question

2012-02-25 Thread Rob Beezer
Can you replace L.level_sets()[-3:-2][0] by L.level_sets()[-3] ? On Feb 25, 7:05 pm, Ryan Davis ryan.stance.da...@gmail.com wrote: L.level_sets()[-3:-2][0][i].element.property() is the only way I've -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-support] Re: Some bugs and some wishes

2012-02-21 Thread Rob Beezer
On Feb 21, 12:36 am, emil emil.widm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob, you understand more than I do - is this a bug (big step of time needed for that type of calculation at an rather arbitrary number)? Should I create a track ticket for that? Do you have also an opinion on the various other points

[sage-support] Re: Some bugs and some wishes

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Beezer
, total: 89.93 s Rob -- 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: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-support] sage won't compile on Arch Linux i686

2012-02-17 Thread Rob Steenburgh
and http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2012-February/017571.html Will these issues ever be addressed? I'd love to keep learning and using sage, but don't want to abandon my current flavor of Linux. Thanks, Rob -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support

[sage-support] Linear Algebra Quickref updated

2011-12-13 Thread Rob Beezer
I have updated the Linear Algebra Quick Reference card to more closely match version 4.8 and to catch up on 2.5 years worth of changes. You can find it (and others) at: http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref Rob -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[sage-support] Re: Why Install?

2011-11-12 Thread Rob Beezer
, and developing a dot-com approach to maintenance, hosting, notebook development, etc is a good way to go now. Rob -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Displayed output getting cut off in notebook mode using html() and latex.eval()

2011-09-01 Thread Rob
I sort-of fixed it by changing the LATEX_HEADER string in latex.py to read '\textwidth 999in' instead of '\textwidth 6.45in' and then doing a 'sage -b'. I still don't know how to get jsmath to work properly, but it's not as important now. -- To post to this group, send email to

[sage-support] Displayed output getting cut off in notebook mode using html() and latex.eval()

2011-08-31 Thread Rob
I'm trying to display a large latex expression, but both methods that I know of to do that (html() and latex.eval()) wind up cutting parts off when it's actually displayed. (The exact latex string I've used to generate these pictures is here: http://pastebin.com/sbK8EqdR ) I'm using sage 4.6

[sage-support] Re: Issue with finding rank of a 255 x 121 dense matrix over GF(5)

2011-08-08 Thread Rob Beezer
On Aug 7, 1:41 pm, Jacob Schlather jacob.schlat...@gmail.com wrote: Sure processor       : 0 vendor_id       : GenuineIntel Thanks, Jacob. I'll point the other bug report back here. Rob -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-support] Re: Issue with finding rank of a 255 x 121 dense matrix over GF(5)

2011-08-07 Thread Rob Beezer
a segfault (very predictably), and building from source solved the problem. I wonder if the two reports are related? http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11581 Rob -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage

[sage-support] Re: Very slow matrix calculations in SAGE

2011-07-16 Thread Rob Beezer
quite fast. Rob -- 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: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-support] Re: Very slow matrix calculations in SAGE

2011-07-14 Thread Rob Beezer
(RDF, 400, 400, lambda i,j: i+j) sage: time x = M.LU() Time: CPU 0.02 s, Wall: 0.02 s Rob -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Absolute value of matrices

2011-04-07 Thread Rob Beezer
On Apr 6, 8:39 pm, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: where A^* is the conjugate transpose.   You mean the adjoint of a matrix, right? ;-) I hijacked this topic and regenerated it over on sage-devel - should have posted a link earlier:

[sage-support] Re: eigenvectors_right() takes too long

2011-04-06 Thread Rob Beezer
, and put it on my list - though I won't get to it immediately, so it is fair game for anybody else who may be interested. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11145 Rob On Apr 4, 2:31 pm, Edgar Duenez-Guzman eadue...@gmail.com wrote:     I have been struggling with symbolic computation

[sage-support] Re: sage won't simplify something that is clearly 0

2010-11-03 Thread Rob H.
Here's another simple example of basic simplifications that aren't processed: P.x=SR[] F=P.fraction_field() print F(x/x) print simplify(F(x/x)) Output: x/x x/x Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix/circumvent these problems? Thanks, +Rob -- To post to this group, send email to sage

[sage-support] sage won't simplify something that is clearly 0

2010-11-02 Thread Rob H.
'. I just want to be able to simplify the expression so that I can 'view' it. (In reality I have a 16x16 matrix of expressions more complicated than this one, and I'd like to be able to 'view' them in their simplified form). Thank you very much, +Rob -- To post to this group, send email to sage

[sage-support] Inverting an element possibly by adjoining

2010-10-31 Thread Rob H.
quadratic form over some ring R and I'd like to be able to do this whenever R is contained in a ring where 2 is invertible. Thanks, +Rob P.S.: As an aside, I was able to take the fraction_field of (Z/10Z)[x]/ (x^2), but not of Z/10Z itself. Perhaps this is because the method is_integral_domain

[sage-support] Re: XPPAUT and Sage

2010-06-11 Thread Rob
On Thursday 10 June 2010 21:59, Jan Groenewald wrote: After editing the Makefile to fix that problem, make issues the same error on another file, then another and another. After editing the Makefile about half a dozen times, I just gave up. I tried to contact the author but apparently the

[sage-support] Re: XPPAUT and Sage

2010-06-10 Thread Rob
alternative is my package, PyDSTool, if you are keen to work with similar tools to XPP in a more programming-style environment. Good luck, Rob On Jun 10, 5:01 pm, Jose Guzman n...@neurohost.org wrote: Dear Sage users, I am going to take a course on computational neuroscience soon. Tutors

[sage-support] Re: Problem finding numeric eigenvectors

2010-06-06 Thread Rob Beezer
Yes, there were changes, including the output format, as of 4.4 (about 7 weeks ago). See eigenmatrix_right totally broken at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4756 Rob On Jun 6, 7:27 am, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: Has something changed recently. I'm running v.4.3.5 [m

[sage-support] Re: latex \cancel not rendering

2010-06-06 Thread Rob Beezer
The Sage notebook uses jsMath to render mathematics. jsMath only implements a (large) subset of TeX, so it is likely that \cancel is not part of its capabilities. You can see much of what is possible at: http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/symbols/welcome.html Rob On Jun 6, 4:31 am, dbjohn

[sage-support] Re: latex \cancel not rendering

2010-06-06 Thread Rob Beezer
guidance. ;-) that was my thought anyway. (3) For any object in Sage (ie built as a class) define the _latex_() method to return a latex representation (string of latex commands to place inside dollar signs), then everything else is free. Rob On Jun 6, 12:15 pm, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote

[sage-support] Re: Problem finding numeric eigenvectors

2010-06-06 Thread Rob Beezer
at a system prompt, it couldn't be much easier. Rob -- 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: http

[sage-support] Re: Problem finding numeric eigenvectors

2010-06-05 Thread Rob Beezer
vector, as expected if the items are really an eigenvalue and right eigenvector of M. Rob On Jun 5, 7:03 pm, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused about this, and hoping for some clarification ... sage: M=matrix([[0, .707-.707*i],[.707+.707*i, 0]]) sage: M = M.change_ring(CDF) sage

[sage-support] Re: How can I get a PDF from a .show() acting on an expression, from within the notebook ?

2010-06-05 Thread Rob Beezer
: latex.engine('pdflatex') sage: view(x^5, tightpage=True) Rob -- 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

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

2010-04-23 Thread Rob
where the old versions didn't seem to work (or build, anyway). Thanks again! Rob On Apr 19, 8:04 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I have now posted a brand new VMWare Sage-4.4 image:    http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/binaries/sage-vmware-4.4... It's something I made from

[sage-support] Degree 120 splitting field

2010-04-14 Thread Rob Beezer
to it. But maybe I'm asking for too much. Again. I have an S_4 example to fall back on, which seems to finish in reasonable time, though doesn't have the non-solvable flavor I am after. Thanks, Rob sage: M.a=NumberField(x^5-x-1) sage: y=polygen(M) sage: (y^5-y-1).factor() (x - a) * (x^4 + a*x^3

[sage-support] Re: Degree 120 splitting field

2010-04-14 Thread Rob Beezer
and assume it is correct when there is no error. Thanks! Rob On Apr 14, 8:06 pm, Alec Mihailovs alec.mihail...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 14, 2:08 pm, Rob Beezer goo...@beezer.cotse.net wrote: Rinse, repeat.  First iteration is below.  By the time I get to degree 3 the factorizations are taking

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

2010-04-03 Thread Rob
I've officially given up on ever getting VirtualBox to work properly on my netbook (I'm pretty sure it's just a memory issue), so I'd like to go back to the last VMware version (4.1.2, I guess). I can find where to find the source code for the old versions, but I've looked all over sagemath.org

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

2010-04-03 Thread Rob
, April 3, 2010, Rob furit...@gmail.com wrote: I've officially given up on ever getting VirtualBox to work properly on my netbook (I'm pretty sure it's just a memory issue), so I'd like to go back to the last VMware version (4.1.2, I guess). I can find where to find the source code for the old

[sage-support] Re: accessing sage notebook with android phone

2009-07-23 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jul 22, 10:35 pm, Rob Beezer goo...@beezer.cotse.net wrote: A student of mine was running a connection to a Sage notebook server on his Android phone last Friday.  He showed me an interesting plot, so I know it was working properly.  I'll point him to this discussion and see if I can get

[sage-support] Re: accessing sage notebook with android phone

2009-07-22 Thread Rob Beezer
A student of mine was running a connection to a Sage notebook server on his Android phone last Friday. He showed me an interesting plot, so I know it was working properly. I'll point him to this discussion and see if I can get details. Rob Dan Christensen wrote: Oh, if anyone *has* had

[sage-support] Re: Resolved: LaTeX output for Graph Theory

2009-07-11 Thread Rob Beezer
complaining. Sample code below may help with understanding/debugging this situation. This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6516 Rob ~~ sage: latex.extra_preamble() '' sage: g=graphs.PetersenGraph() sage: latex.extra_preamble() '\\usepackage{tkz-graph}\\usepackage{tkz-berge

[sage-support] Re: Generating Matrices with variables

2009-06-22 Thread Rob Beezer
Jens, Does the following Sage command-line session begin to do what you want? Various parts could be more streamlined and/or automated for a larger matrix. Rob sage: for i in range(4): : var(a+str(i)) : a0 a1 a2 a3 sage: J = matrix(2,2,[a0,a1,a2,a3]) sage: J [a0 a1] [a2 a3] sage

[sage-support] Re: matrix with many repeated entries

2009-06-04 Thread Rob Beezer
defining a function and without thinking about 0-based indices. Rob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[sage-support] Re: Notebook server sluggish in 3.4

2009-05-30 Thread Rob Beezer
this all gets reorganized in the next overhaul of the notebook. Rob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[sage-support] Re: Notebook server sluggish in 3.4

2009-05-30 Thread Rob Beezer
} sage: nb.save() Use the script at #5880 to clean out massive numbers of saved worksheets. Apply the patch to reduce the actions that lead to a worksheet saves. Apply #5895 if you want to permanently cap snapshots to 30 per worksheet, with amnesty for worksheets created before May 1, 2009. Rob

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-25 Thread Rob Beezer
I have made a patch that attempts to limit the number of snapshots that get saved (per worksheet) to an absolute maximum of 30. There's a bit of a dilemma about just how to do this, given that at present some users will have more than 30 snapshots for some worksheets, and in the future this

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-23 Thread Rob Beezer
, but will let this thread run its course first. Rob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[sage-support] Re: old snapshots take a *lot* of space

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Beezer
Jason, Have a look at: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5371 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5459 There are few other tickets about that are relevant, as well. Rob On Apr 21, 7:46 pm, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: I was just troubleshooting why my sage

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Beezer
to help isn't sufficient to remind me enough to give an accurate answer. :-( Rob On Apr 22, 10:13 am, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Followup: The original patch athttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5371 has some comments in it about extending the default save times if you wnt

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Beezer
. Unfortunately, I am not that person, but I'd be ready to help and review work done in this direction. Done right, this might obsolete several other patches and then free up others that would also be welcome enhancements to the notebook. Down off soap box, Rob

[sage-support] Re: Jmol causing Firefox crash

2009-04-10 Thread Rob Beezer
2009 in the filenames This Ubuntu thread, suitably updated to newer filenames, shows how to install the 64-bit plugin for Java. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1011899 But you may need to also disabuse Firefox/Ubuntu of the other plugiuns you have about. Rob

[sage-support] Re: Jmol causing Firefox crash

2009-04-09 Thread Rob Beezer
to some 64-bit specific information. I have JMOL working just fine in Firefox on KUbuntu 8.10, though on Intel (which I think shouldn't matter much). Rob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-support] Re: paste a picture to the notebook worksheet

2009-04-09 Thread Rob Beezer
HTML with file:// and localhost:8000// type URLs, to various locations (near worksheets, or elsewhere), but with no luck. Rob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[sage-support] Re: paste a picture to the notebook worksheet

2009-04-09 Thread Rob Beezer
On Apr 9, 9:53 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: If you do Data -- Upload File, then upload the file foo.png, you can use img src=foo.png Thanks, William. That does the trick. So after uploading an image, you can just use the TinyMCE image-insert tool, where all you need to do is put

[sage-support] Re: How do I deal with this message.

2009-03-21 Thread Rob Beezer
The thread linked to below begins the same way. Maybe it has the answer you need. http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/6fc59581c9ed1af1 On Mar 21, 8:14 am, nerak99 t10...@gmail.com wrote: Having played with Sage on a desktop PC I wanted to set it up as a school

[sage-support] Re: Bad patch for unicode chars in TinyMCE?

2009-03-21 Thread Rob Beezer
away politely and I can edit some more. Rob On Mar 21, 9:55 am, ma...@mendelu.cz ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: Hello, this is related to the thread athttp://groups.google.cz/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/2a699... I think that installation ofhttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment

[sage-support] Re: determinants of matrix polynomials

2009-03-19 Thread Rob Beezer
. Not sure what you are up to exactly, but with determinants and polynomials, perhaps the scaling has a predictable effect. I like the looks of Mike's suggestion very much, and if this helps you get there, then I think thousands of 30x30's are achievable. Rob On Mar 19, 9:29 pm, Rob Beezer goo

[sage-support] Re: Trouble with PermutationGroupElement

2009-03-17 Thread Rob Beezer
for the two permutations as far as the length of the first. John's patch at Trac 5537 should correct this. I'll have some timings and a review up later today. Rob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[sage-support] Re: Sage 3.4 and Ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-14 Thread Rob Beezer
for the build to finish before you can use it). Download sage-3.4.tar. I place my installations under /opt. As root do the following: 1. cd /opt 2. tar -xvf sage-3.4.tar 3. cd sage-3.4 4. make Wait patiently. ;-) Then ./sage or ./sage -notebook to run. Rob

[sage-support] Re: Excessive snapshots

2009-03-08 Thread Rob Beezer
OK, I have a better, but still imperfect, idea of what is happening. Discussion below is now at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5459 (I'm cross-posting the contnuation of this thread from sage-support to sage-devel). There is a notebook configuration item indexed by 'save_interval'.

[sage-support] Re: Excessive snapshots

2009-03-07 Thread Rob Beezer
that prevails. Consider sage: nb = load('/home/rob/.sage/sage_notebook/nb.sobj', compress=False) sage: nb.user(rob-test)['autosave_interval'] 3600 sage: nb.user(fcla)['autosave_interval'] 180 sage: nb.user(admin)['autosave_interval'] 540 sage: nb.conf()['save_interval'] 60 With this configuration

[sage-support] Re: Jmol problem

2009-03-07 Thread Rob Beezer
minutes. The instructions might help others on different platforms - the Sun download area has RPM's, etc. Here is the Ubuntu thread, just follow the first poster's instructions modified/adjusted to fit your situation. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1011899 Rob On Mar 7, 6:57 am, John

[sage-support] Re: Jmol problem

2009-03-07 Thread Rob Beezer
I'd forgotten that about:plugins is so useful. Do you know the Debian/Ubuntu alternatives scheme? Its a way to specify a system-wide default editor, etc. See man update- alternatives On Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 I had to use (as root) update-alternatives --config xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so You

[sage-support] Re: Jmol problem

2009-03-07 Thread Rob Beezer
from Sun. Rob On Mar 7, 2:22 pm, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the detailed instructions.  I have never heard of xulrunner.  Something of that name was installed but I installed a newer (?) version using synaptic.  I also used update-alternatives to get java to point

[sage-support] Re: Jmol problem

2009-03-07 Thread Rob Beezer
and they are *really* enhancing my course. They should all migrate to the Interact/Calculus section of the wiki when we get a chance. But Java is a pain to get working. Right up there with the Flash plugin. Its always the proprietary bits. ;-) Rob

[sage-support] Re: How to inherit from extension classes?

2009-03-07 Thread Rob Beezer
Simon, For further advice on setting up to test new code, take a look at http://tinyurl.com/d92o3v Rob On Mar 7, 12:10 am, Simon King k...@mathematik.uni-jena.de wrote: Hi! I would like to create an extension class that inherits from CommutativeRingElement. In order to learn how it works

[sage-support] Excessive snapshots

2009-03-06 Thread Rob Beezer
is on a portable, external USB drive I pack around, so maybe that could have something to do with it. I think all these files (or writes) are also impacting my performance (intolerable waits on simple operations). fstab for this device says LABEL=INOI-60GB-EXT /home/rob ext3 rw,relatime,noauto 0 0 Am I

[sage-support] Re: Excessive snapshots

2009-03-06 Thread Rob Beezer
/user_conf.py which all have a 3 minute interval specifies. I edited all of them to be 3600 seconds. But I'm still getting saves about every 30 seconds after restarting Sage. Rob On Mar 6, 8:05 pm, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, running 3.3 should fix that.  You can safely delete

[sage-support] Re: Excessive snapshots

2009-03-06 Thread Rob Beezer
My 30 MB nb.sobj was also being saved twice a minute. Is this a reasonable size for this file? After some head-scratching, I found the thread http://tinyurl.com/aht325 which had the following commands to use at the sage command line: sage: nb = load('/home/rob/.sage/sage_notebook/ nb.sobj

[sage-support] Re: Excessive snapshots

2009-03-06 Thread Rob Beezer
read then. I'll run some experiments tomorrow and report here. Are others on some version of 3.4.rc0 seeing snapshots (and .sage/ sage_notebook/backups/nb.sobj updates) at 3-minute intervals? Or something different? Thanks for the help. Rob On Mar 6, 11:41 pm, mabshoff michael.absh

[sage-support] clisp-2.46.p7 Error on Sabayon 4(Gentoo Based)

2009-01-24 Thread rob
/sage-devel explaining the problem and send the relevant part of of /home/rob/sage-3.2.3/install.log. Describe your computer, operating system, etc. If you want to try to fix the problem, yourself *don't* just cd to /home/rob/sage-3.2.3/spkg/build/clisp-2.46.p7 and type 'make'. Instead type /home/rob

[sage-support] Re: clisp-2.46.p7 Error on Sabayon 4(Gentoo Based)

2009-01-24 Thread rob
Thank you for the quick response. I guess I could just wait it out then until the newer version comes out if there isn't a fix. Here is the appropriate log: http://depositfiles.com/en/files/oo8wrvp5s Thanks again, Rob On Jan 24, 11:53 am, mabshoff michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- dortmund.de

[sage-support] Re: Transformation to Jordan form for tame 6x6 integer matrix

2008-10-13 Thread Rob Beezer
Thanks for the response and for submitting this as a bug. I should have thought to try a simpler test case. Rob On Oct 13, 4:58 am, Marshall Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is now Ticket #4273 on trac (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ ticket/4273). I will try to fix this if no one

[sage-support] Transformation to Jordan form for tame 6x6 integer matrix

2008-10-12 Thread Rob Beezer
- the error seems more severe without setting base_ring=QQ. I've also include a legitimate transformation matrix I worked up by hand (with some help from SAGE!). Is this expected behavior? Any usage hints or workarounds? Thanks. Rob m=matrix(QQ, [[2,0,1,1,0,0],[0,2,1,1,0,0],[2,0,1,0,0,1

[sage-support] Generating all subgroups of a group

2008-09-24 Thread Rob Beezer
A homework exercise for my students asks them to find all subgroups of S_4, which should be a very instructive exercise, even if a bit unreasonable. In SAGE, the conjugacy_classes_subgroups() method gets you started, and the quick-and-dirty brute-force code below creates all possible subgroups

[sage-support] Re: Generating all subgroups of a group

2008-09-24 Thread Rob Beezer
a PermutationGroup), but maybe I'm missing something. All the same, speeding things up with a use of the normalizer would be just the sort of thing my students could appreciate a few weeks from now. Thanks again, Rob On Sep 24, 12:33 pm, John Cremona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Rob's example it would be nice

[sage-support] Re: Links between worksheets

2008-09-24 Thread Rob Beezer
flexibility in naming and locating work sheets would be necessary. So I thought I'd toss out this scenario as a similar situation where some extensions to the worksheet file name and location structure could make new uses of SAGE possible. Thanks, Rob On Sep 24, 9:32 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-support] Iterating over PermutationGroup elements

2008-09-12 Thread Rob Beezer
individually) and the errors go away. Any thoughts on how to make this work? Thanks, Rob Code: tetra=AlternatingGroup(4) stab1=PermutationGroup_subgroup(tetra, [(1,2,3)]) stab4=PermutationGroup_subgroup(tetra, [(2,3,4)]) for g in stab1: for h in stab4: print g*h Errors: Traceback (most

[sage-support] Re: Iterating over PermutationGroup elements

2008-09-12 Thread Rob Beezer
Thanks, William. Just in time for class this morning. ;-) Rob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http