[sage-support] Re: Symbolic algebra expansion of products of sums

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Dodier
ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: You can use commands orderless and ordergreat in Maxima to change the default behavior. For the record, I recommend against that; it's not really the right way to resolve this problem. I'll post another message with a different resolution. Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Symbolic algebra expansion of products of sums

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Dodier
philabuster wrote: This ordering makes it extremely difficult to do index association from the j-th term of the expansion back into constituent indices of each sum (i0,i1,i2,i3); Well, Sage punts to Maxima (for the moment, anyway) to compute the expansion. The terms are computed in the order

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-24 Thread Stan Schymanski
+1 for a 'smart' auto backup system. I don't know whether it was the snapshot saving or what did it, but I never bothered saving notebooks while working with them and never lost any data after crashes. It is such a great peace of mind not to have to remember to save your work regularly and

[sage-support] Re: Minor sage 3.4/jsMath3.6b rendering issue in IE7

2009-04-24 Thread dpvc
It looks like this notebook no longer uses jsMath to render the result of var('n m'), so I can't reproduce the problem you describe. I do know that jsMath was used earlier when we were looking at the IE font issue. Did this change as a result of the Sage update that you did, or is it something

[sage-support] Re: Minor sage 3.4/jsMath3.6b rendering issue in IE7

2009-04-24 Thread Jason Grout
dpvc wrote: It looks like this notebook no longer uses jsMath to render the result of var('n m'), so I can't reproduce the problem you describe. I do know that jsMath was used earlier when we were looking at the IE font issue. Did this change as a result of the Sage update that you did, or

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-24 Thread kcrisman
I like the way the proposed patch wipes the slate fairly clean.  But I sort of hope it is temporary and at some point a rational autosave strategy of some sort is implemented.    There was an attempt to not The only issue is that there is no guarantee that the autosave, in some rational

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-24 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:51 AM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: I like the way the proposed patch wipes the slate fairly clean.  But I sort of hope it is temporary and at some point a rational autosave strategy of some sort is implemented.    There was an attempt to not The only

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-24 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Stan Schymanski schym...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for a 'smart' auto backup system. I don't know whether it was the snapshot saving or what did it, but I never bothered saving notebooks while working with them and never lost any data after crashes. When a

[sage-support] Re: snapshot saving

2009-04-24 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:51 AM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: I like the way the proposed patch wipes the slate fairly clean.  But I sort of hope it is temporary and at some point a rational autosave strategy of some sort is implemented.    There was an attempt to not The only

[sage-support] Cython help

2009-04-24 Thread drupel
Hi all, I am new to Sage and I don't quite understand how to convert my code to cython code to speed up my program. I am doing a lot of symbolic manipulations and using the PolynomialRing object. Below I have some of my code so that you can see the types of manipulations I hope to speed up:

[sage-support] Re: Cython help

2009-04-24 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Dylan, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, drupel dylanru...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am new to Sage and I don't quite understand how to convert my code to cython code to speed up my program.  I am doing a lot of symbolic manipulations and using the PolynomialRing object.  Below I have

[sage-support] Re: Cython help

2009-04-24 Thread drupel
Thanks Mike, Is it possible to do the symbolic computations with Cython? If not, I will wait until Sage 4.0 comes out and see what happens. Dylan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this

[sage-support] Re: Cython help

2009-04-24 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:40 PM, drupel dylanru...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mike, Is it possible to do the symbolic computations with Cython? Yes, you can do them from within Cython, but it's not going to give you the speed up that you might think / want. Making code faster is almost entirely

[sage-support] Search help on substrings of function names?

2009-04-24 Thread Alasdair
Is there a way of searching for functions which contain a particular string in their names? Yesterday I was trying to find the extended Euclidean algorithm (xgcd); my search would have been trivial if I could have searched for all functions containing the string gcd. As it was I found it almost

[sage-support] Re: sage error 6520

2009-04-24 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 24, 10:49 am, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, Just installed Sage on CentOS 5.3 server.  Local system.  I am getting sage-sage: line 197 6520 Illegal instruction sage-ipyth $@ -i. Any help would be appreciated. What Sage release precisely are you using, i.e. version,

[sage-support] Re: Search help on substrings of function names?

2009-04-24 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 24, 1:42 pm, Alasdair amc...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way of searching for functions which contain a particular string in their names?  Yesterday I was trying to find the extended Euclidean algorithm (xgcd); my search would have been trivial if I could have searched for all

[sage-support] Re: sage error 6520

2009-04-24 Thread Mikie
Version 3.4 for CentOS rel 5_2. Before I get the error below it says Warning; Sage was built on a machine that does not support instructions for this computer. Processor flags not on this computer: pni On Apr 24, 3:04 pm, mabshoff michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- dortmund.de wrote: On Apr

[sage-support] Re: sage error 6520

2009-04-24 Thread Mikie
Sage is trying to modify the file sage-flags.txt. On Apr 24, 3:29 pm, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Version 3.4 for CentOS rel 5_2.   Before I get the error below it says Warning; Sage was built on a machine that does not support instructions for this computer.  Processor flags not

[sage-support] Re: sage error 6520

2009-04-24 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 24, 2:33 pm, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Sage is trying to modify the file sage-flags.txt. It should open it read only, but let me check. On Apr 24, 3:29 pm, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Version 3.4 for CentOS rel 5_2.   Before I get the error below it says

[sage-support] Re: Cython help

2009-04-24 Thread drupel
I sent a copy of my code and a few samples of what I would like to do with it to your gmail. Thanks for your help, Dylan On Apr 24, 1:48 pm, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:40 PM, drupel dylanru...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mike, Is it possible to do the

[sage-support] Re: Search help on substrings of function names?

2009-04-24 Thread Alasdair
Thanks - that's just what I wanted to know. Wouldn't be nice if Sage had something like Matlab's lookfor command, which gives you the name of all functions containing that substring, and a very brief (half line) description. -A. On Apr 25, 7:29 am, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote:

[sage-support] Why this numerical integral bombs?

2009-04-24 Thread Chris Seberino
Notice first and second are very similar except for the cos() and exp (). Why first one ok but second bombs? sage: numerical_integral(sin(pi*cos(x/2)),0,2)[0] 0.85397903781471396 sage: numerical_integral(sin(pi*exp(x/2)),0,2)[0]

[sage-support] Re: Why this numerical integral bombs?

2009-04-24 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 24, 7:03 pm, Chris Seberino cseber...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Notice first and second are very similar except for the cos() and exp (). Why first one ok but second bombs? sage: numerical_integral(sin(pi*cos(x/2)),0,2)[0] 0.85397903781471396 I guess you are using Sage 3.4? Works

[sage-support] notebook doesn't open

2009-04-24 Thread Yo-Yo
Hello all. hope all is well w/ all of u. anywho, when ever i try to use the sage program by writing note as it instructs me to do so, it doesn't appear to work. i am getting an error which states, sh: cannot create notebook.log: Permission denied echo: write erro: Broken pipe Does any one kno

[sage-support] Re: Slackware/Zenwalk package

2009-04-24 Thread littlemathteacher
Dear Minh, dear Michael, thanks a lot. Thanks to Minh for this simple but fine idea to compile in a command line session! Meanwhile the RAM I had bought has arrived and with the now available more than 300 MB I let the compiler run once again. This time it seemed to freeze at the same point