[sage-support] Re: Question re : ./sage -upgrade

2008-10-20 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 20, 12:57 am, Simon King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear William, On Oct 20, 5:47 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just do sage -upgrade again. Should this work already? Wasn't there some posts on Sage devel that for some reason upgrade to 3.1.3 or 3.1.4 was a problem? I

[sage-support] Re: Question re : ./sage -upgrade

2008-10-20 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 20, 7:50 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, my answer above was from an airport via my iphone, Now you're just showing off... John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[sage-support] why is this so slow?

2008-10-23 Thread John H Palmieri
The setup: sage: var('x y') sage: F = sin(x^2 + y^2) * cos(y) * exp(-0.5*(x^2+y^2)) sage: G=F.derivative(x,x); G -3.00*x^2*e^(-(0.500*(y^2 + x^2)))*cos(y)*sin(y^2 + x^2) - 1.00*e^(-(0.500*(y^2 + x^2)))*cos(y)*sin(y^2 + x^2) -

[sage-support] Re: why is this so slow?

2008-10-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 23, 8:05 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:56 AM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The setup: sage: var('x y') sage: F = sin(x^2 + y^2) * cos(y) * exp(-0.5*(x^2+y^2)) sage: G=F.derivative(x,x); G -3.00*x^2*e

[sage-support] Re: why is this so slow?

2008-10-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 23, 8:56 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's me doing this in sage-3.2.alpha0.  Note that not all the same commands and conventions as with Sage's usual symbolic variables are yet supported.  However, the good thing is that the final substitution takes 1.81 ms on

[sage-support] Re: why is this so slow?

2008-10-23 Thread John H Palmieri
Okay, using what William said, I produced this an 'interact' example, showing the linear and quadratic Taylor approximations to a certain function in two variables. Right now it's using a combo of the old and new symbolic stuff, because that seems to be the best way to get things done... var('x

[sage-support] Re: new user: latex fails

2008-10-29 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 29, 8:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear sage users, I installed sage and texlive on my small virtual server. LaTeXing does not work: %latex Ahoj This looks like an earlier message: see the 4th message in the thread

[sage-support] Re: Problem finding eigenvalues in sage

2008-11-06 Thread John H Palmieri
On Nov 6, 9:07 pm, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure how to covert those sqrt expressions into what you want. However, you can see that they are what you're expecting: sage: A = matrix([[-1,-1+I],[1,0]]) sage: evs = A.eigenvalues(); evs [(-sqrt(4*I - 3) - 1)/2, (sqrt(4*I -

[sage-support] Re: Drawing points on a sphere

2008-11-11 Thread John H Palmieri
On Nov 11, 9:01 pm, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can pass a radius or size parameter to the point command,   which will make them smaller or larger. Also, you can look at the   line3d command (pass it a list of points to get a curved line). Also the parametric_plot3d command

[sage-support] pth roots in fields of characteristic p

2008-11-18 Thread John H Palmieri
Does Sage know how to compute pth roots in any finite field of characteristic p? That is, if I have a prime number p, a finite field F of characteristic p, and an element b of F, will sage: b.nth_root(p) always return a value, or will it sometimes return a ValueError? Does it depend on the

[sage-support] Re: pth roots in fields of characteristic p

2008-11-18 Thread John H Palmieri
Thanks for the answers. By the way: Infinite fields of characteristic p aren't perfect, Isn't the algebraic closure of F_p perfect? For fields of characteristic p, perfect should mean that every element has a pth root. (I agree that some infinite fields of characteristic p aren't perfect,

[sage-support] Re: How to replace variables in function?

2008-12-09 Thread John H Palmieri
Try this instead: # just as you had before: r=2*2*pi Pole1=r*exp(I*2*pi/3) Pole2=-r Pole3=r*exp(-I*2*pi/3) Ts=0.1 # one change here: var('f') z=exp(I*2*pi*Ts*f) p=(2/Ts)*(z-1)/(z+1) H = (p^3)/((p-Pole1)*(p-Pole2)*(p-Pole3)) Then H (or show(H)) will print out a complicated expression in terms

[sage-support] Re: help solving equations

2008-12-15 Thread John H Palmieri
On Dec 14, 11:16 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:53 PM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: I have some code which generates a bunch of expressions of the form Sum (n_i a_i) where each n_i is an integer and each a_i is an unknown in a field

[sage-support] the set containing the empty set

2009-01-09 Thread John H Palmieri
Is this a bug? sage: Set([]) {} sage: Set(Set([])) {} sage: Set([]) == Set(Set([])) True In general, are Sage Sets supposed to behave like mathematical sets? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[sage-support] Re: the set containing the empty set

2009-01-09 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 9, 3:40 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:36 PM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a bug? sage: Set([]) {} sage: Set(Set([])) {} sage: Set

[sage-support] Re: the set containing the empty set

2009-01-10 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 10, 7:25 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: John H Palmieri wrote: Here's another question: what is the most efficient way of testing whether one Set is a subset of another?  I can do     S in list(T.subsets()) -- and it's a bit frustrating that I can't do S

[sage-support] cokernel of a matrix (and other questions about matrices and free modules)

2009-01-16 Thread John H Palmieri
1. How can I compute the cokernel of a matrix? For example: sage: mat = matrix(ZZ, 2, 2, [[1, 0], [0, 2]]) sage: M = FreeModule(ZZ, rank=2) Then I would like to use M / mat.image() or M / mat.column_module(), but those give errors. (It works if M and mat are defined over QQ, and perhaps over

[sage-support] Re: cokernel of a matrix (and other questions about matrices and free modules)

2009-01-17 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 16, 9:42 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:22 PM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: 1. How can I compute the cokernel of a matrix? For example: sage: mat = matrix(ZZ, 2, 2, [[1, 0], [0, 2]]) sage: M = FreeModule(ZZ, rank=2) Then I

[sage-support] Re: unstable modules + creating a small library

2009-01-19 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 19, 6:28 am, Pierre pierre.guil...@gmail.com wrote: hi all I've just realized that SAGE knows about the Steenrod algebra now. Does it know about unstable modules, too ? No, it doesn't, unfortunately. (Sage doesn't know about tensor products, which has delayed me from implementing

[sage-support] problem deleting, archiving worksheets

2009-01-24 Thread John H Palmieri
With Safari on an Intel iMac, Sage 3.3.alpha1, in the notebook: the delete and archive buttons don't seem to do anything. From the page of deleted worksheets, the empty trash button doesn't seem to do anything. With Firefox on this computer, I can empty the trash, but I still don't seem to be

[sage-support] Re: problem deleting, archiving worksheets

2009-01-25 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 24, 11:17 pm, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I fixed this problem and put a patch up athttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5095.  The problem was that the TinyMCE patch made all AJAX requests use jQuery, but the jQuery code was not included on the worksheet

[sage-support] Re: New User Confusion over Latex support in sage

2009-01-25 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 25, 11:39 am, composer314 jeremy.saw...@gmail.com wrote: I just downloaded and installed Sage yesterday. I am a brand new user of this particular computer algebra system, though I have used Mathematica in the past. I was very pleased to see that Sage supports Latex, but I am confused

[sage-support] large sparse integer matrices

2009-01-31 Thread John H Palmieri
I'm having some issues with integer matrices. I have a matrix mat: sage: mat 891 x 1559 sparse matrix over Integer Ring sage: mat.rank() # this takes a long time sage.bin(75404,0xa06be720) malloc: *** mmap(size=447524864) failed (error code=12) *** error: can't allocate region *** set a

[sage-support] Re: Error inserting new cell

2009-02-05 Thread John H Palmieri
On Feb 5, 5:37 pm, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] 2. Open a TinyMCE cell.  Try any math expression ending in b$ - for instance, $ab$, a common one.  Put some text afterwards, and format it bold.  E.g., I like the inequality $ab$ because it's easy and then make 'because' bold.  

[sage-support] Re: attach works in command line but not in notebook

2009-02-07 Thread John H Palmieri
On Feb 7, 5:37 am, ricardomayerb ricardomay...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Adrian. But I think I gave the full path when I used the command: attach /media/disk/thesiswork/thesis2009/sage/src/sympy_files/ thesis_sympy_2009.py Try quotes: attach

[sage-support] Re: removing an element from a set/list

2009-02-10 Thread John H Palmieri
On Feb 10, 11:58 am, green351 mmamashra...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 10, 10:45 am, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 10, 10:31 am, green351 mmamashra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.  I have the following problem: consider the following list of compositions and its cartesian

[sage-support] how to find all maximal chains in a poset

2009-02-15 Thread John H Palmieri
If I have a poset P, is there a simple way in Sage to get the set of all maximal chains in P? I don't see anything terribly relevant in posets.py. I can write some code to do it myself (I was thinking of some sort of recursion), but if someone else has already done it or has some good ideas, I

[sage-support] Re: how to find all maximal chains in a poset

2009-02-15 Thread John H Palmieri
To follow up, I tried writing something myself and ran into problems: see trac ticket #5283 (and also #5280, maybe). So any advice would be appreciated. On Feb 15, 7:06 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: If I have a poset P, is there a simple way in Sage to get the set of all

[sage-support] Re: printing of vector spaces

2009-03-03 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 3, 11:36 am, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Dear support: On sagenb.org: [snip] But if I click Typeset: {{{id=4| A = Matrix([[1,2,3],[3,2,1],[1,1,1]]) A.eigenvectors_left();A.eigenspaces_left() /// htmlspan class=math\begin{array}{l}[\left(5,  

[sage-support] Re: printing of vector spaces

2009-03-03 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 3, 12:35 pm, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: A related issue is that presumably there are some other places where the deprecated LaTeX two-letter commands should be replaced - does anyone know of any off-hand, e.g. \tt or \bf? See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5433 for

[sage-support] Re: plot doesn't plot what I expect, can someone please explain why?

2009-03-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 8, 5:14 am, compound eye compound...@gmail.com wrote: hello I expected the code below to plot a diagonal line from 0,0 to 2,2 then a horizontal line from 2,2 but instead it plots a horizontal line starting at 0,2 x = var('x') def splitTest(n):     if n 2:         return n    

[sage-support] Re: Why two functions matrix.invert(), matrix.inverse()?

2009-03-09 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 9, 9:35 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] That sounds likely.  The somebody was probably me.  I hope somebody opens a track ticket to deprecate, then remove (in some number of months) invert. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5460 John

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 10, 1:00 pm, nsauer nsa...@math.ucalgary.ca wrote: Thanks for your reply; As I am completely new to sage I do not know how to perform the indicated change. I looked at the file sage/devel/sage/sage/matrix0.pyx but could not figure out how and where to add the function

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 10, 12:34 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jason Grout [snip] I agree that this should be an option.  Also, the delimiters for vectors should be an option. +1. How about adding a function to matrix0.pyx that sets a global variable in

[sage-support] Re: problem after moving sage folder

2009-03-12 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 12, 11:38 am, mabshoff michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- dortmund.de wrote: Never us cp to copy Sage unless you know what you are doing, but use tar. Hm. I've never had any problems using cp; in fact I routinely do it before running 'sage -upgrade'. Does 'cp -pR' count as knowing what

[sage-support] Re: recompile sage in MAC OSX

2009-03-13 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 13, 7:29 am, Norbert Werner Sauer nsa...@math.ucalgary.ca wrote: Hi; I changed the delimiters of matrices in the file: By the way, in the latest version of Sage (3.4), you can use the command 'sage.matrix.matrix0.set_matrix_latex_delimiters([, ])' to change from parentheses to square

[sage-support] Re: Finite Sets

2009-03-16 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 16, 1:52 pm, epple dedaa...@gmail.com wrote: When comparing finite sets, I receive unexpected results. Version: 3.4 (Sage on the web) Code: sage: S=Set([1,2]) sage: T=Set([3]) sage: ST,ST,S==T (True, False, False) As far as I can tell, for Sets, == and != mean what they should,

[sage-support] Re: Trouble with PermutationGroupElement

2009-03-16 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 16, 2:26 pm, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:25 PM, epple wrote: Actually I am getting the same result for other permutations, like: sage: h=PermutationGroupElement('(1,3,2)') sage: k=PermutationGroupElement('(1,2,3),(4,5)') sage:

[sage-support] Re: Trouble with PermutationGroupElement

2009-03-16 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 16, 2:40 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 16, 2:26 pm, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:25 PM, epple wrote: Actually I am getting the same result for other permutations, like: sage: h=PermutationGroupElement

[sage-support] Re: How to get notebook() help?

2009-03-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 22, 5:59 pm, J Elaych microsc...@gmail.com wrote: It takes quite a while to learn how to use the notebook just by googling around (search google for 'sage %hide' for instance) so I hope someone can point me in a better direction. Have you tried clicking the Help link in the upper right

[sage-support] Re: Problem plotting a function with plot()

2009-03-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 23, 3:10 pm, Jose Guzman n...@neurohost.org wrote: Dear Sage users and developers, I am using Sage version 3.4 running on Linux/Debian. I am still not very familiar with Sage though. I tried to plot the following equation: sage: var('t'); # symbolic variable sage: var('g'); #

[sage-support] Re: Problem plotting a function with plot()

2009-03-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 23, 3:31 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 23, 3:10 pm, Jose Guzman n...@neurohost.org wrote: Dear Sage users and developers, I am using Sage version 3.4 running on Linux/Debian. I am still not very familiar with Sage though. I tried to plot

[sage-support] Re: %latex notebook errors

2009-03-29 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 28, 7:22 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM, J Elaych microsc...@gmail.com wrote: What happens if you type this at the command line: sage: sage.misc.latex.Latex().eval('Try this: $$x^2=-1$$.',0,0,debug=True) William Awesome, thanks.  

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 2, 8:39 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:37 AM, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: The Sage tutorial on amazon is a bit out of date. Amazon requires the online publisher createspace, which uses an extremely finiky automated web-based

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 2, 10:09 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:45 AM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 2, 8:39 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:37 AM, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-05 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 5, 5:29 pm, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: box on page 59. One error message was that the interior pdf was formatted for 8.5x11 and it must be 8x10. With the old latex file, I could adjust the page margins using \setlength{\paperwidth}{10in} \setlength{\paperheight}{8in} or

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-07 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 7, 12:11 pm, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: This may be overkill, but the manual documentclass sets some options and then passes everything else to report.cls.  So you can make a copy

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 7, 5:30 pm, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Okay, thanks. I just tried this and it didn't seem to work for me. However, the length is now 104 instead of 96. The horizonal line across the bottom above the page number seems to be the same distance from the bottom edge of

[sage-support] Re: matrix subdivision question

2009-04-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 8, 12:56 pm, Justin C. Walker jus...@mac.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:07 , gerhard wrote: Print methods for matrices with subdivisions let M be a matrix over QQ:    subdivisions are printed fine over GF(2):    M.get_subdivisions() shows the subdivisions are defined,    

[sage-support] Re: matrix subdivision question

2009-04-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 8, 1:03 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 8, 12:56 pm, Justin C. Walker jus...@mac.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:07 , gerhard wrote: Print methods for matrices with subdivisions let M be a matrix over QQ:    subdivisions are printed fine over

[sage-support] Re: matrix subdivision question

2009-04-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 8, 1:10 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:06 PM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: I'll mark mine as a duplicate.  Go ahead with your patch. Neither Justin nor I have a patch, and I don't think either of us are working on one. Justin

[sage-support] Re: matrix subdivision question

2009-04-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 8, 1:28 pm, gerhard ge01...@yahoo.de wrote: Re show method: M.subdivide(1,3); print M.get_subdivisions() show(M) I get ([1], [3]) as for the show method output, no subdivisions. latex(M) yields \left(\begin{array}{rrr|r} 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

[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: Accessing a Sage 'instance' over the web; URL=???

2009-04-27 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 27, 12:34 pm, mabshoff michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- dortmund.de wrote: On Apr 27, 12:31 pm, Justin C. Walker jus...@mac.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:46 , rvaug...@gmail.com wrote: I have successfully installed the latest sage on a Fedora Core 9 machine (name of

[sage-support] Re: quotient poly ring and field

2009-05-04 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 4, 1:07 pm, gtg yih0siang0l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm new to sage. Can you tell me how to construct finite fields using quotient of poly ring? For instance suppose I want to construct GF(5^2) using a GF(5) poly ring mod out by x^2 + x + 1 how do I do that? I can construct the quotient

[sage-support] Re: No sans-serif font in notebook latex entries

2009-05-13 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 13, 9:49 am, Brian Hawkins hawkins.br...@gmail.com wrote: I did not know about the %latex command, thanks for the tip. Looking at the symbol table, I found one that serves my particular purpose well: \top.  $M^\top$ renders as I'd like for a transpose and avoids using an unsupported

[sage-support] Re: No sans-serif font in notebook latex entries

2009-05-13 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 13, 4:57 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On May 13, 9:49 am, Brian Hawkins hawkins.br...@gmail.com wrote: I did not know about the %latex command, thanks for the tip. Looking at the symbol table, I found one that serves my particular purpose well: \top.  $M

[sage-support] Re: jsmath

2009-07-02 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 2, 9:14 am, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Is it possible to go have pretty print  using from sage.misc.latex import jsmath,?? In Sage's notebook, 'pretty_print' (which is what gets used when you click on the Typeset checkbox) uses jsMath already. I am looking at

[sage-support] Re: refereeing spkg

2009-07-02 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 2, 6:57 pm, john_perry_usm john.pe...@usm.edu wrote: Hi, I'm trying to referee the spkg for bug 6362 here,    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6362 I understand that I'm supposed to use hg to check for changes, but how precisely to go about this? regards john perry If

[sage-support] Re: jsmath

2009-07-03 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 3, 5:05 am, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Yes, I am not using the notebook.  I have created an API(server) using a python script.  It lets the user do interactive calculations from my website.  The output is in a textarea and not pretty print as the notebook.  I was wondering

[sage-support] Re: Is it possible to replace the list built-in type in Sage?

2009-07-14 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 14, 1:52 pm, Carlos Córdoba ccordob...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for not answering before, I've being a bit busy. I'll try to give a concrete example of what I'm trying to do so you can understand me better. I have a list of real numbers, for example [1,2,3] Python list comprehensions

[sage-support] Re: Is it possible to replace the list built-in type in Sage?

2009-07-14 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 14, 3:35 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/14 Carlos Córdoba ccordob...@gmail.com: Thanks John, I'd seen Python comprehensions before, but since I was trying to do all in a one-liner, I think I overlooked your elegant and simple solution. One comprehension at a time

[sage-support] Re: Problem with show

2009-07-19 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 16, 11:02 pm, linuxgus ka8...@amsat.org wrote: Hi all, If I DON'T use notebook and type a simple program like, sage: t,s=var('t,s') sage: show(laplace(exp(-3*t),t)) an evince window pops up with the error message Unable to open document File type TeX DVI document

[sage-support] Re: Rendering latex

2009-07-20 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 20, 3:30 pm, VictorMiller victorsmil...@gmail.com wrote: I have a program which calculates a table of values, and I'd like to display it nicely formatted.  I've written a function to produce latex for it (using tabular), but I can't figure out how to get SAGE to display this in a

[sage-support] Re: Rendering latex

2009-07-21 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 21, 10:34 am, VictorMiller victorsmil...@gmail.com wrote: William, Thanks.  That works ok -- except, for example if I do latex.eval('$N_0$',{}) I get what I expect plus a line with two single quotes before what I wanted.  This seems to happen with any latex string.  Do you know

[sage-support] Re: Where does import look?

2009-07-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 23, 9:16 am, VictorMiller victorsmil...@gmail.com wrote: I have a sage program in a file in one of my directories called calc.sage.  It uses a class that I wrote called Table, which I've put in a file called Table.py in the same directory.  In the sage notebook I load calc.sage (by

[sage-support] Re: creating a clean library

2009-07-27 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 27, 8:53 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Ethan Van Andelevlu...@gmail.com wrote: I've been messing with my sage source. I've finally created the stuff I want, but in the process have fiddled with other things. What's the best way to

[sage-support] Re: Differential algebra support

2009-07-29 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 29, 7:56 am, Daniel Bearup daniel.diff...@googlemail.com wrote: Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question. Does SAGE incorporate support for differential algebra? That is can it handle differential rings/ideals and does it have an implementation of the

[sage-support] Re: jsmath in sage-4.1

2009-08-03 Thread John H Palmieri
On Aug 3, 9:39 pm, Elizabeth Yip el...@comcast.net wrote: Hello, The line jsmath(cos(2\phi)+latex(1/x)) in the sage-4.1 notebook produces different result from the sage-3.4 notebook.  The result in sage-3.4 is what I want. Okay, in the latest version, I see cos(2\phi)\frac{1}{x} I

[sage-support] readline? problem

2009-08-06 Thread John H Palmieri
I have a problem with Sage and maybe readline on an ubuntu box. If I type sage: squTAB then it partially completes to sage: squarefree_ Then it lists the options (squarefree_divisors squarefree_part) and puts the cursor in the wrong place: the cursor ends up on the s in squarefree_. If

[sage-support] Re: readline? problem

2009-08-06 Thread John H Palmieri
On Aug 6, 11:40 am, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: I have a problem with Sage and maybe readline on an ubuntu box.  If I type   sage: squTAB then it partially completes to   sage: squarefree_ Then it lists the options (squarefree_divisors  squarefree_part) and puts

[sage-support] Re: readline? problem

2009-08-06 Thread John H Palmieri
On Aug 6, 4:08 pm, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:40 AM, John H Palmierijhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: I have a problem with Sage and maybe readline on an ubuntu box.  If I type  sage: squTAB then it partially completes to  sage:

[sage-support] Re: Please comment this code on simplicial complexes

2009-08-24 Thread John H Palmieri
On Aug 24, 9:57 am, Rafael Villarroel rvf0...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your answer! I have added     def is_free_face (self,s):                 A free face is one that is contained properly in exactly one         maximal face.         Removing a free face from a complex does not

[sage-support] Re: A weird exception?

2009-08-29 Thread John H Palmieri
On Aug 29, 8:51 am, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: Note that expon uses Maxima, because you use the logarithm. So, I reckon that your problem is related withhttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4731 andhttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6818. If not, you might try

[sage-support] Re: Trouble with Greek characters

2009-09-01 Thread John H Palmieri
On Sep 1, 5:19 pm, linuxgus ka8...@amsat.org wrote: Hello all. Here is a simple three-liner in notebook: r=var('rho') A=matrix(2,[sqrt(3), 1, -1, sqrt(3)])/2 R=matrix(2,[1,r,r,1]) show(  simplify(expand(A*R*A.transpose()))  ) It does the math correctly, but instead of displaying actual

[sage-support] Re: class question: addition in an Algebra

2008-04-15 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 14, 9:02 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:21 PM, John Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to define a class based on Algebra, and I'm having problems. I think the issue is that I don't understand how coercion is supposed to work.

[sage-support] what are the optional packages?

2008-04-26 Thread John H Palmieri
What are the optional packages? Right now if I type 'sage -optional', I get a list like this: NOT INSTALLED: biopython-1.44 database_sloane_oeis-2005-12 (etc.) It would be very helpful if I got something like this instead: NOT INSTALLED: biopython-1.44 Python

[sage-support] bug in notebook?

2008-04-30 Thread John H Palmieri
This is with Sage 3.0, Firefox 2.0.0.14, linux. If I check the little Typeset box at the top of the notebook, save and quit the notebook, then re-enter it, the box is still checked, but my output is not typeset. If I uncheck it and then check it again, it works. Can anyone else reproduce this?

[sage-support] Re: problem with 'view', question about 'view'

2008-05-09 Thread John H Palmieri
or after. Maybe my computer was just acting up?) On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:12 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:26 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A problem: on my linux box

[sage-support] Re: axes_label in plot appears to be broken

2008-05-13 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 13, 2:31 pm, tkeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to add some simple labels to plots, but axes_label appears to not be working in sage-3.0.1. Ticket # 1508 (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1508) reports this as fixed, but typing the example given in the

[sage-support] Re: axes_label in plot appears to be broken

2008-05-13 Thread John H Palmieri
:40 pm, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 13, 2:31 pm, tkeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to add some simple labels to plots, but axes_label appears to not be working in sage-3.0.1. Ticket # 1508 (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1508) reports

[sage-support] 3 == pi

2008-05-15 Thread John H Palmieri
Is this a bug? sage: 3 == pi 3 == pi sage: i == i I == I Shouldn't this return False and True, respectively? I know this works: sage: 3 == pi.n() False sage: 3 == RR(pi) False but I sort of expect pi to act like the number pi when used with things like == or , without using the .n()

[sage-support] Re: 3 == pi

2008-05-15 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 15, 9:56 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:48 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a bug? sage: 3 == pi 3 == pi sage: i == i I == I Shouldn't this return False and True, respectively? Those are symbolic equations

[sage-support] Re: python (?) help: equivalent of lisp's let

2008-05-28 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 28, 11:13 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:59 AM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the situation: in some sage code that I'm working on, I have a variable, say 'output_format', which tells sage how to print certain kinds

[sage-support] Re: python (?) help: equivalent of lisp's let

2008-05-28 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 28, 12:35 pm, Carl Witty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 28, 11:48 am, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have a function, set_output_format, so users can do this: sage: set_output_format('old') 'old' sage: x = (blah); x (x printed in 'old' format) I

[sage-support] Re: print or view depending on context (was Re: python (?) help: equivalent of lisp's let)

2008-06-10 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jun 10, 7:12 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In some code, I'd like to view or print an object depending on whether in notebook mode with the typeset box checked or not.  Is this a good way to do

[sage-support] Re: print or view depending on context (was Re: python (?) help: equivalent of lisp's let)

2008-06-11 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jun 10, 9:56 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:35 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 7:12 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In some code

[sage-support] Re: exemple from prog.pdf does not work

2008-06-30 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jun 30, 9:47 am, ibrahim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello.  Trying to execute the exemple of page 33 : hello.spyx produces this error : Loading of file /Users/ims/.sage/hello.spy has type not implemented. nb : page 33 hello.spyx contains def hello(name):        Print hello with

[sage-support] sign of a permutation

2008-06-30 Thread John H Palmieri
Suppose I have a tuple x of distinct non-negative integers. Is there a quick way to find the sign of this, as a permutation of Set(x)? (I want to view x as the one-line permutation notation form, so (3,6,4) will have sign -1, while (5,3,8,6) will have sign 1.) The things I can find in

[sage-support] coercion question

2008-07-04 Thread John H Palmieri
I'm running into a coercion problem. I'm trying to define a class SteenrodAlgebra (based on the Algebra class); there should be one Steenrod algebra for each prime number p, and it is an algebra over GF(p). For example, you can do sage: A5 = SteenrodAlgebra(5) sage: A7 = SteenrodAlgebra(7) I

[sage-support] Re: coercion question

2008-07-04 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 4, 10:25 am, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 4, 2008, at 7:12 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: I'm running into a coercion problem.  I'm trying to define a class SteenrodAlgebra (based on the Algebra class); there should be one Steenrod algebra for each prime number p

[sage-support] Re: coercion question

2008-07-04 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 4, 10:53 am, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 4, 2008, at 10:44 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: So I'm very confused.  Any ideas what I should look at to try to fix this? Yes, Sage caches some information so it doesn't have to do the logic anew on each arithmetic

[sage-support] Re: coercion question

2008-07-05 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 5, 10:08 am, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 4, 2008, at 1:52 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: On Jul 4, 10:53 am, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 4, 2008, at 10:44 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: So I'm very confused.  Any ideas what I should look

[sage-support] Re: coercion question

2008-07-05 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 5, 5:48 pm, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 2008, at 12:42 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: Ah, it looks like your __eq__ method is assuming that self and   other are elements of the steenrod algebra. There are two solutions to this: 1) Use __cmp__ which

[sage-support] Re: coercion question

2008-07-05 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 5, 8:39 pm, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 2008, at 7:16 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: would be good enough?  (That is, assuming I've defined a reasonable __eq__ method for the parents, the SteenrodAlgebra class.) Yes, though that will mean something like A5

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: sage tutorial oops

2008-08-18 Thread John H Palmieri
On Aug 18, 7:54 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Arnim Littek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:42:37 +1200 Subject: sage tutorial oops To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm just starting with Sage, and I must say, it makes a good

[sage-support] why isn't QQ a FractionField?

2008-09-17 Thread John H Palmieri
sage: is_FractionField(FractionField(ZZ)) False Oy. This seems to be intentional: there is a doctest very similar to this. It doesn't seem right, though. How hard would it be to change? Is it worth it? Along the same lines, partial fraction decomposition should work for rational numbers; this

[sage-support] Re: why isn't QQ a FractionField?

2008-09-17 Thread John H Palmieri
On Sep 17, 9:09 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:59 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sage: is_FractionField(FractionField(ZZ)) False Oy. This seems to be intentional: there is a doctest very similar to this. It doesn't seem right, though

[sage-support] Re: why isn't QQ a FractionField?

2008-09-18 Thread John H Palmieri
On Sep 18, 5:31 am, Burcin Erocal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:48:37 -0700 (PDT) John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 9:09 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:59 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip

[sage-support] Re: why isn't QQ a FractionField?

2008-09-18 Thread John H Palmieri
On Sep 18, 1:01 am, John Cremona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/18 John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sep 17, 9:09 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:59 PM, John H Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along the same lines, partial fraction

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