[sage-support] Re: Using sage for student quizzes

Simon King wrote: > Hi Dima, > > On 2016-08-24, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 3:50:32 AM UTC+1, Andrew wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone have experience in using sage for on-line quizzes that count >>> towards student assessment. Of course, in addition to

[sage-support] Re: how to make a toc in sagemath jupyter (link toc)

OK. What you have found is a way to display an (internal|external) cross-reference. This is standard matkdown : see this description in the original markdown page (1.0.1, dated 2004). I was thinking more about the lines of

[sage-support] Re: Using sage for student quizzes

Hi Dima, On 2016-08-24, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 3:50:32 AM UTC+1, Andrew wrote: >> >> Does anyone have experience in using sage for on-line quizzes that count >> towards student assessment. Of course, in addition to writing the code and >>

[sage-support] error using simple solve example

Hi, I've just started using Sage (sage-7.3-OSX_10.11.6-x86_64.app.dmg) on Mac OS X 10.11.6. The first solve example... x = var('x') solve([x^2 - 3 == 0], x) ...gives the error below. Any advice greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Paul Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in

[sage-support] Re: Problem compiling 7.3 from source

Luis Finotti wrote: > I can't compile 7.3 using Debian Unstable. Do you intentionally (try to) build Sage's GCC? (I have to admit I haven't tried to build 4.9.3 with 6.x, but building older GCCs with newer versions of it in my experience is likely to fail.) If not, take a look at config.log,

[sage-support] Re: (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

Nathan does give the link to the original post, but he is quoting out of context. Here is the full post: On Sunday, 21 August 2016 07:15:56 UTC+10, William wrote: > So there is no confusion, my top priority right now is to **make a lot > of money** by building a profitable company on open

[sage-support] Re: error using simple solve example

I tried this - didn't work, but thanks for the suggestion. On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 4:42:21 PM UTC+1, HG wrote: > > I forgot : try x=var("x") > > Le mercredi 24 août 2016 11:47:40 UTC+2, Paul Johnson a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> I've just started using Sage

[sage-support] Re: error using simple solve example

Thanks. I tried installing Maxima from sourceforge. This didn't help, although I don't know if would be expected to. I'd be interested to know if anyone else is able to run Sage on OS X El Capitan. Might an older version work? Or is the Maxima problem independent of the Sage version? E.g. this

[sage-support] Re: Using sage for student quizzes

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 3:50:32 AM UTC+1, Andrew wrote: > > Does anyone have experience in using sage for on-line quizzes that count > towards student assessment. Of course, in addition to writing the code and > the content. there are various security issues that need to be taken care

[sage-support] Re: how to make a toc in sagemath jupyter (link toc)

I show you how I did as I never had answer about it... Maybe there is other way to do it ? I got the idea from jupyter vpython.zip : the TOC Jupyter VPython: navigable real-time 3D animations, done simply¶

[sage-support] Re: error using simple solve example

I tried your example on ubuntu 7.3 there is not problem. Seems to be a problem of locale (utf8), but sorry I don't know mac. Le mercredi 24 août 2016 11:47:40 UTC+2, Paul Johnson a écrit : > > Hi, > > I've just started using Sage (sage-7.3-OSX_10.11.6-x86_64.app.dmg) on Mac > OS X 10.11.6. The

[sage-support] Re: error using simple solve example

I forgot : try x=var("x") Le mercredi 24 août 2016 11:47:40 UTC+2, Paul Johnson a écrit : > > Hi, > > I've just started using Sage (sage-7.3-OSX_10.11.6-x86_64.app.dmg) on Mac > OS X 10.11.6. The first solve example... > > x = var('x') > solve([x^2 - 3 == 0], x) > ...gives the error below. Any

[sage-support] How to convert sage finitely presented group to magma?

I have a finitely presented group in sage, how do I convert it to a magma object? We tried the following, but it failed. Is this a bug? sage: L=FreeGroup(1) Free Group on generators {x} sage: S=L/[L.0^3] sage: magma(S) /opt/sage6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/magma.pyc in

[sage-support] Re: Using sage for student quizzes

Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Hi Simon, > the question is delicate; I know that in UK there is a number of universities > using SMC for teaching purposes. > As well as in some other countries (William can give details on this, I > suppose); as well, some MOOCs probably use SMC. And, finally, Andrew,

[sage-support] The server of Sage 7.3 for Mac OS 10.11.6 (the app version) will not start!

The server of Sage 7.3 for Mac OS 10.11.6 (the app version) will not start! Here is the error report from the Terminal: Last login: Wed Aug 24 12:07:55 on console

[sage-support] Re: The server of Sage 7.3 for Mac OS 10.11.6 (the app version) will not start!

ahauskne...@umassd.edu wrote: > The server of Sage 7.3 for Mac OS 10.11.6 (the app version) will not > start! Smells like some system python3 is called instead of Sage's python2 (hence the SyntaxError). There are at least two similar issues on ask.sagemath.org, one of them [1] suggesting to

[sage-support] Re: Using sage for student quizzes

Hey Leif, On 2016-08-24, leif wrote: >> Is that an option, if security concerns are relevant? My university >> wouldn't allow to store the student's personal information on servers in >> the USA. > > OT, but if I'm not mistaken, that's actually current law in the EU.

[sage-support] Re: Using sage for student quizzes

Hi Simon, the question is delicate; I know that in UK there is a number of universities using SMC for teaching purposes. As well as in some other countries (William can give details on this, I suppose); as well, some MOOCs probably use SMC. And, finally, Andrew, the original poster, is in

[sage-support] Re: Using sage for student quizzes

Hi Simon, the question is delicate; I know that in UK there is a number of universities using SMC for teaching purposes. As well as in some other countries (William can give details on this, I suppose); as well, some MOOCs probably use SMC. And, finally, Andrew, the original poster, is in

Re: [sage-support] Re: Using sage for student quizzes

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Hi Simon, > the question is delicate; I know that in UK there is a number of universities > using SMC for teaching purposes. > As well as in some other countries (William can give details on this, I > suppose);

[sage-support] (William Stein) "my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money**"

Quote from William Stein, CEO of SageMath Inc (private for-profit Delaware company) [1] So there is no confusion, my top priority right now is to **make a lot of money** by building a profitable company on open source software (Latex, Linux, Sage, Octave, R, etc.) (full post)

[sage-support] Re: error using simple solve example

On 2016-08-24, Paul Johnson wrote: > File > "/Applications/SageMath-7.3.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/maxima_lib.py", > line 105, in > ecl_eval("(set-locale-subdir)") > File "sage/libs/ecl.pyx", line 1315, in

[sage-support] Problem compiling 7.3 from source

I can't compile 7.3 using Debian Unstable. Here is some info on the system: System:Host: finottim83 Kernel: 4.7.0-1.slh.1-aptosid-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 6.1.1) Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.6.5 Distro: aptosid 2013-01 Ἑσπερίδες - kde -full - (201305050307) Machine: System: LENOVO