[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread Stan Schymanski
Just to add another view, I can never remember all the different function names, so I find it very convenient to have namespace pollution as Martin Rubey calls it. If I look for a certain plot function, I would like to be able to type plot and then hit the tab button to see all the possible

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread John Cremona
2008/10/28 Stan Schymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just to add another view, I can never remember all the different function names, so I find it very convenient to have namespace pollution as Martin Rubey calls it. If I look for a certain plot function, I would like to be able to type plot and

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Martin Rubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear William, thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me too happy. I'm having a hard time here, I must

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Rubey
Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: var(t) y=function('y',t) solve(diff(y,t,2)-2*diff(y,t)+diff(y,t)==3, y(t)) to solve for y(t). Doesn't Axiom work this way? Yes. (well, FriCAS is what I'm developing) Actually, one thing which is really nice about FriCAS is that it's very

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-27 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Martin Rubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How come that solve doesn't solve this? sage: solve(sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - x^2 - 1), x) [x == -sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - 1), x == sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - 1)] sage: axiom.solve(sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - x^2 - 1), x)

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear William, thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me too happy. I'm having a hard time here, I must admit. So far I thought that sage would do most things out of the box, and it's only inconsistent (eg., arguments to plot, plot3d and integrate vary wildly. There are

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-27 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Martin Rubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear William, thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me too happy. I'm having a hard time here, I must admit. So far I thought that sage would do most things out of the box, and it's only

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Rubey
David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Martin Rubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear William, thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me too happy. I'm having a hard time here, I must admit. So far I thought that sage would do most