[sage-support] Re: Find_root not finding a root

2018-03-15 Thread Robert Dodier
iliar with, has its own plotting code, dunno about Sage, in any event just reusing the splitting algorithm isn't any big deal. best, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and s

[sage-support] Re: Error with simple integral, "CEXPT only defined for non-negative integral exponents."

2017-11-09 Thread Robert Dodier
k we (Maxima project) should dump it. best Robert Dodier -- 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 pos

[sage-support] Re: Integration bug?

2017-10-26 Thread Robert Dodier
n(3*x)+3*sin(x))/24 Obviously the presence of 'false' is a bug. If you can make a bug report in the Maxima bug tracker, that would very helpful. https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs By the way I am working with Maxima 5.40+ (almost 5.41). best, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because yo

[sage-support] Re: taylor(1/4*x-x^2,x,0.2,3)

2017-07-12 Thread Robert Dodier
e, to prevent that conversion. That causes trouble, given the widespread implicit assumption about exact numbers. It's a bug of course -- perhaps you can submit a bug report to: http://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs but you can work around it by setting keepfloat to false, or writing 1/5 instead

[sage-support] Re: This limit seems to be wrong

2017-01-22 Thread Robert Dodier
ceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3280 for a related bug. HTH Robert Dodier -- 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. T

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

2016-08-24 Thread Robert Dodier
run into a similar error with the next call to a Maxima function. Sorry I can't be more helpful, Robert Dodier -- 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 ema

[sage-support] Re: Easy definite integral

2016-08-19 Thread Robert Dodier
msy but not incorrect. HTH in some way. Robert Dodier -- 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.

[sage-support] Re: Possible bug in numerical integration

2016-06-02 Thread Robert Dodier
I guess I'm also assuming that Sage punts to Maxima for real() here. But integral_numerical is probably not calling Maxima, right? best Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group an

[sage-support] Re: incorrect limit

2016-04-19 Thread Robert Dodier
I tried as an experiment) introduces its own problems though. That exposes some bugs in gruntz, and also some results which are different, so it would be necessary to trawl through them and verify that they're correct. best Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscrib

[sage-support] Re: wrong result for integral(sqrt(cos(x)-cos(x)^3), x, 0, pi/2)

2016-04-14 Thread Robert Dodier
e same for domain:real and domain:complex). Reported as: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3126/ best Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Issue with Solve

2015-02-27 Thread Robert Dodier
this directly in Maxima, the equation is solved in both cases. (I assume that Sage calls Maxima to solve equations; is that right?) Heaven knows Maxima has 1 bug in which results depend on the names of variables, but I guess this isn't one of them. best, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because

[sage-support] Re: simple 'solve' error, possibly related to ecl and maxima installation

2014-11-23 Thread Robert Dodier
on it, for the record. best Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Why solve(5^( x -1) == (0.04)^(2*x), x) returns empty set?

2014-11-19 Thread Robert Dodier
decidable to Maxima, you can get a partially-evaluated conditional, but not a partially-evaluated loop (triggers an error), and various programming functions (e.g. length, first, integerp) might act in an unexpected way. This, too, hasn't caused trouble, from what I remember. FWIW Robert Dodier -- You

[sage-support] Re: Bug in symbolic integral

2014-11-12 Thread Robert Dodier
(-1,-log(2)) (%i7) %, numer; (%o7) 1.273097216447114 (%i8) quad_qags (foo, x, 2, 3); (%o8) [1.273097216447114,1.413421842285782E-14,21,0] Looks like Maxima handles the definite and indefinite integrals as expected. Or perhaps I have misunderstood the problem? Hope this helps, Robert

[sage-support] Re: Having issues with assume

2014-10-28 Thread Robert Dodier
this clear above. Is this a bug, or am I missing something? This is a bug. If you have time, can you please report it to the Maxima bug tracker: http://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs best, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support

[sage-support] Re: matrix log?

2014-10-21 Thread Robert Dodier
); mat_function (log, mymatrix); For large, numerical matrices, I'm sure linalg.logm is much faster. But for small or nonnumerical matrices, maybe Maxima is useful. Hope this helps, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support group. To unsubscribe

[sage-support] Re: solve(-(1/2*sqrt((4*w+1)+1))*t+w==0,w)

2014-10-16 Thread Robert Dodier
range of problems). But I find that Maxima's 'to_poly_solve' can solve it. Maybe someone here can say how to call it from Sage. In fact, the solution is: w=t+t^2 Are you sure? Assuming some value for t, plotting the expression doesn't seem to show a solution at w = t + t^2. best Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: [sage-cloud] Strange behavior when integrating 1/x^p

2014-10-15 Thread Robert Dodier
://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs best, Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Segfault on integration

2014-09-24 Thread Robert Dodier
On 2014-09-20, Kristoffer Ryhl-Johansen kristofferr...@gmail.com wrote: f(x)=log(1-x)*log(1+x)/(1+x) f.integrate(x,0,1) Produces a segfault when I run it on my ubuntu 14.04 computer Fixed by Maxima commit f7921c5265 (bug in Risch code). best Robert Dodier -- You received this message

[sage-support] Re: Segfault on integration

2014-09-20 Thread Robert Dodier
packages loaded by abs_integrate, but that doesn't seem to be the case; so I guess the problem is triggered by abs_integrate itself. I will try to investigate some more. If someone files a bug report, that will help us track it. http://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs best Robert Dodier -- You

[sage-support] Re: apparent numerical integration bug in sage

2014-08-29 Thread Robert Dodier
(f2, x, 1, 10^11) fails (with error=5, integral is probably divergent or slowly convergent) but quad_qag(f2, x, 1, 10^11, 4) succeeds, likewise quad_qagi(f2, x, 1, inf) succeeds. If Sage is indeed calling QUADPACK, perhaps at least the error number can be reported? For what it's worth, Robert

[sage-support] Re: apparent numerical integration bug in sage

2014-08-29 Thread Robert Dodier
quadrature in Sage! Yes, but most of them are QUADPACK, right? best Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Won't Integrate

2014-07-05 Thread Robert Dodier
it is certainly a drawback. I don't know if e.g. SymPy could solve it; I didn't try. best Robert Dodier -- 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] Re: Having trouble with syntax and nesting integral into limit

2014-06-05 Thread Robert Dodier
as n increases without bound. So I'm guessing the limit is zero. If you need a proof, maybe you can show the integral is bounded, therefore the limit is zero. Sorry I can't be more helpful, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support

[sage-support] Re: Does Sage support content mathML?

2014-05-29 Thread Robert Dodier
and presentation MathML. I tinkered with maximaMathML a couple of months ago and it seemed to work OK (after fixing some bugs). Write me off-list if you're interested. best Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support group

[sage-support] Re: wrong or nonexistent results for various infinite sums

2014-04-23 Thread Robert Dodier
)*bessel_i(-1/2,x^(3/2))*x^(3/4)/sqrt(2) Hope this helps, Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: How to compute sum(log(1-1/n^2),n,2,oo)?

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Dodier
, inf); (%o20) -log(2) best, Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: simplification of symbolic expressions

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Dodier
; (%o12) -asin(x)+u+%pi/2 (%i13) asin(sqrt(3)*sqrt(2)/3) + asin(sqrt(3)/3) + asin(sqrt(1 - u^2)) + asin (u); (%o13) %pi This is just what I got from some half-hearted hacking; I'm sure there are serious limitations. Good luck, have fun, hope this helps. Robert Dodier -- You received

[sage-support] Re: Integration of formal functions

2013-07-27 Thread Robert Dodier
), 'integrate(...)). 'integrate is a formal integral -- it doesn't invoke the code to solve definite integrals -- so it won't bump into that error. best Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support group. To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-support] Re: Error summing inverses of binomial coefficients

2013-07-22 Thread Robert Dodier
On 2013-07-18, Ed Scheinerman edward.scheiner...@gmail.com wrote: sage: sum(1/binomial(n,k),k,0,n) (n + 1)*2^(-n) and that answer is wrong. That's a bug in Maxima's simplify_sum -- reported as bug # 2614. https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/2614/ best Robert Dodier -- You received

[sage-support] Re: Bug in evaluation of Maxima numbers? Or where? Or not a bug at all?

2013-07-19 Thread Robert Dodier
type. HTH Robert Dodier -- 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 email to sage

[sage-support] Re: Substituting a combination of variables in a matrix

2013-04-23 Thread Robert Dodier
what might be available in Sage proper. best Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Bug in solve?

2013-02-24 Thread Robert Dodier
in to_poly_solve -- I didn't go farther. Can someone please submit a bug report. http://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs best Robert Dodier -- 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: Limit and variable

2013-02-01 Thread Robert Dodier
anything unless the exponent is a literal integer, so the question seems pointless. I'd have to look at it again before figuring out if the question could be skipped. best Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support group

[sage-support] solving Diophantine equations in Sage

2012-12-08 Thread Robert Dodier
as the basis for an implementation? Pointers to any other resources would be interesting. best Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support group. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

[sage-support] Re: solving Diophantine equations in Sage

2012-12-08 Thread Robert Dodier
. Are there implementations of these approaches in Sage or any upstream project? (e.g. PARI/GP, Singular, I don't know.) best, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-support group. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com

[sage-support] Re: Unable to Solve Simple Problem

2012-10-27 Thread Robert Dodier
()), %if(?%and(-%pi/2 parg(sqrt(4*c+b^2)+b), parg(sqrt(4*c+b^2)+b) = %pi/2), [d = (b*sqrt(4*c+b^2)+2*c+b^2)/2],%union())) I didn't check the result; sorry about that. best Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[sage-support] Re: cryptic error in complex integration

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Dodier
) that you are looking for a numerical result. If so, you can try splitting the integrand into real and imaginary parts, and applying a numerical method (Sage has Quadpack functions) to each part. Hope this helps, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[sage-support] Re: numerical integration problem

2012-08-09 Thread Robert Dodier
-- hard enough, anyway, that the user has to help the computer along. All the best, Robert Dodier -- -- 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: triple integral works with sympy but not

2012-06-27 Thread Robert Dodier
. FTR I'm working with Maxima 5.27 + patches (from Git). HTH Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Integration issue

2012-05-15 Thread Robert Dodier
. Sorry I can't be more helpful. best, Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Integration issue

2012-05-15 Thread Robert Dodier
, if that makes sense - is that possible, Robert? It seems plausible, but I don't know the integration code very well. best Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: Integration issue

2012-05-14 Thread Robert Dodier
. u, as a point of departure. best, Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: abs(pi*i) Bug

2011-02-07 Thread Robert Dodier
ticket 7557 and any similar items with the most recent version of Maxima (5.23). HTH Robert Dodier -- 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: Integration

2011-02-07 Thread Robert Dodier
is interested, maybe you can bring it up on the Maxima mailing list. best Robert Dodier -- 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: Problems with taylor expansion and formal symbolic functions

2011-02-06 Thread Robert Dodier
that this is something one can (yet) do directly in Sage.  It might be possible in Maxima directly, if one can define custom derivatives there. The Maxima function gradef defines derivatives. HTH Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-support] Re: Fourier–Motzkin elimination

2011-01-24 Thread Robert Dodier
it. It is undocumented, but you can ask about on the mailing list. Sorry I can't be more helpful. best Robert Dodier -- 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: Integrate dirichlet distribution problem

2010-06-04 Thread Robert Dodier
distributions? I wouldn't know where to start with that. So provisionally the answer is yes, given a few pointers. Please bring it up on the Maxima mailing list. See: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximalist.html best Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com

[sage-support] Re: Convolution and sine integral

2010-05-19 Thread Robert Dodier
formulate one easily enough to just compute integrate(f(u)*g(x - u), u, minf, inf) or whatever definition. I don't know whether a direct approach like that is preferable, or if it's better to compute the convolution via Fourier or Laplace transforms or some other way. FWIW Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Sage/Maxima desolve_rk4 problem

2010-04-19 Thread Robert Dodier
expressions to numbers (e.g. plotting, quadpack). Follow-ups to the Maxima mailing list. I've appended the original message below. best Robert Dodier PS. On Apr 19, 8:38 am, jvkersch joris.vankerscha...@gmail.com wrote: Technically, this is not a Sage problem, but I figured I would post it here

[sage-support] Re: Invoking Lisp from within Sage

2010-04-10 Thread Robert Dodier
it would be easier to do this stuff in Maxima -- just launch Maxima and then load your own code (since Maxima is written in Lisp). It's easy to call Maxima functions directly from your code. What are the functions you are looking for? FWIW Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send email

[sage-support] Re: bug in taylor expansion with sage and maxima

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Dodier
the Taylor series. FWIW Robert Dodier -- 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: polygon from list of points

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Dodier
is in there but you might get some inspiration. good luck Robert Dodier -- 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

[sage-support] Re: integrate(sec(t)*tan(t),t,0,pi/3), why does definite integral of trig functions give error?

2009-12-26 Thread Robert Dodier
towards solving the problem which started this thread. (As opposed to revising or reimplementing the code for definite integration.) FWIW Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr

[sage-support] Re: forgetting assumptions

2009-11-20 Thread Robert Dodier
be surprised if a lot of ink has been spilled about this problem but I am pretty naive.) If anyone has an opinion about it I would be interested to hear it. FWIW Robert Dodier (a Maxima developer) -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[sage-support] Re: memory limit for maxima

2009-11-13 Thread Robert Dodier
, time memory can increase much faster than one might expect. (2) Maxima may be able to apply different algorithms to compute determinants, I don't remember for sure. You might ask on the mailing list (max...@math.utexas.edu). Sorry I can't be more helpful. Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Sage operations on a matrix containing constant vars fail

2009-10-06 Thread Robert Dodier
. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Re: English grammar of numbers

2009-08-29 Thread Robert Dodier
the appropriate article. Sorry for garbling up all of linguistics here. I'm sure there are others who can do a better job. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[sage-support] Re: Memory issues with maxima in SAGE

2009-08-17 Thread Robert Dodier
(ext:set-limit 'ext:heap-size whatever) Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Memory issues with maxima in SAGE

2009-08-16 Thread Robert Dodier
ask what is the purpose of solving this problem? I am always interested to hear what people are working on. HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage

[sage-support] Re: Memory issues with maxima in SAGE

2009-08-16 Thread Robert Dodier
, looks like you have SBCL in the stand-alone Maxima. You could call build_info(); to get the Lisp name for the one in Sage. Without looking it up, I don't know how to set the memory limit in SBCL. Thanks for the info about your problem, it sounds very interesting. best Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Memory issues with maxima in SAGE

2009-08-15 Thread Robert Dodier
but I'm too lazy to try to compute it myself.) Does the computation succeed with some simpler version of func? As a wild guess in the absence of information, it is possible that intermediate results in the integration are very large expressions. Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Memory issues with maxima in SAGE

2009-08-15 Thread Robert Dodier
for which it breaks seems to vary on different machines. Yes, well, so what is a value of func for which the operation fails? I don't have Sage installed so I can't run your code. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support

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

2009-08-02 Thread Robert Dodier
a little confused about lists --- there is no distinction between lists and sets, and a matrix is just a list of lists. That's a mess, which Sage shouldn't duplicate. But arithmetic on lists isn't confusing. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post

[sage-support] Re: Dimensional Analysis or Unit Conversion capability?

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Dodier
or whatever is just a workaround for the lack of symbolic operations. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[sage-support] Re: Dimensional Analysis or Unit Conversion capability?

2009-06-12 Thread Robert Dodier
for annotating units and for unit conversions, and some interesting random features; I like this one: 1 ` m `` [mile, yard, foot, inch]; = [6 ` mile, 376 ` yard, 0 ` foot, 608/127 ` inch] Maybe ezunits can a source of some inspiration. FWIW Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: arg of a symbolic function

2009-06-06 Thread Robert Dodier
and other variations doesn't seem to yield anything immediately applicable. Links or other refs would be much appreciated. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[sage-support] Re: Multiplicity of solutions

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Dodier
) solve ((z^3 - 1)^3 = 0, z); (%o5) [z = (sqrt(3)*%i-1)/2,z = -(sqrt(3)*%i+1)/2,z = 1] (%i6) multiplicities; (%o6) [3,3,3] FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[sage-support] Re: Creating a polynomial with symbolic coefficients

2009-06-03 Thread Robert Dodier
] could be any of several things --- could be a list element, a matrix row, an array element, a hash table element, as well as a subscripted variable. This multitude of interpretations of x[foo] can lead to confusion. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post

[sage-support] Re: `rat' replaced 1000000.0 by 1000000/1 = 1000000.0

2009-05-29 Thread Robert Dodier
error: *: floating point overflow Try working with either rationals or bigfloats, which are limited only by available memory. (I don't know how Python types map onto Maxima's big integers and bigfloats, sorry.) FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post

[sage-support] Re: solving for numeric values.

2009-05-14 Thread Robert Dodier
as e^foo ... OK. b=((g+u)-c_0*exp^(-g*L))/c_0*exp^(-g*L) Written as exp^foo ... I'm guessing that's incorrect. Looks like Sage is carrying exp^foo through to the results. [g == (6 - 5*exp^g)/(60*exp^g)] , etc. HTH Robert Dodier

[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
expansion order? Well, you can get the addends via the args function in Maxima; e.g. powerdisp:true; foo:expand(whatever); args(foo); = some list. Likewise you can get the multiplicands of each term from args. I don't know how to get that through Sage. FWIW Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Small problem with limit()

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Dodier
precision. What does :lisp *read-default-float-format* report? Thanks for your help, Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr

[sage-support] Re: symbolic matrix multiplication in sage

2009-03-08 Thread Robert Dodier
. For the record, . is the noncommutative product operator in Maxima (while * is commutative). Dunno if it matters, hope this helps. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-06 Thread Robert Dodier
bytes. Unfortunately the Common Lisp spec, while it recognizes the existence of character encoding issues, doesn't specify what to do when a byte can't be decoded to a character. Other Lisp implementations probably have their own ways to handle it. FWIW Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-06 Thread Robert Dodier
On Mar 6, 8:56 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That said -- I'm really looking forward to Sage switching to Maxima + ECL. I;'m pretty sure ECL will exhibit some variation on Clisp's behavior, for better or worse. Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Inverse laplace transform and Post integration formula - symbolic derivative?

2009-02-27 Thread Robert Dodier
a review of the all the junk in maxima/share, to sort out the stuff that can be merged into the core, or needs clean up, or should be axed. Feel free to bother me about it if you don't hear anything. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email

[sage-support] Re: solve(2*x-3 == (2 + sqrt(x+7))^2,x)

2009-01-21 Thread Robert Dodier
+ sqrt(x + 7), [x]); = [[x = 42]] HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: confusing output? latex(7-(-1)^(1/3))

2009-01-18 Thread Robert Dodier
know the full extent of the wonders wrought by domain:complex. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[sage-support] Re: why doesn`t solve() give a proper answer

2009-01-10 Thread Robert Dodier
for modify solve to call to_poly_solve, then I'll encourage you to take it up on the Maxima mailing list. Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support

[sage-support] Re: why doesn`t solve() give a proper answer

2009-01-09 Thread Robert Dodier
in the not-too-distant future, the built-in solver would call to_poly_solve automatically HTH Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr

[sage-support] Re: A limit question.

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Dodier
to compute limits, could you please report this to the Maxima bug tracker and/or mailing list. http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/bugs http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximalist.html Same behavior in a recent Maxima build from CVS, ftr. best Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: numerical evaluation of integral?

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Dodier
on the numer flag for Maxima. numer causes any literal numbers or symbolic constants to be replaced by floating point values. However the integrate function is called as without numer. If you want a numerical integration, call quad_qags or some other Quadpack function. FWIW Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: bug in integral?

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Dodier
On 11/19/08, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, these are coming from Maxima: (%i11) integrate(x*abs(9-x^2), x, -6, 0); (%o11) 162 (%i12) integrate(x*abs(9-x^2), x, -6, -3); (%o12) -729/4 (%i13) integrate(x*abs(9-x^2), x, -3, 0); (%o13) -81/4 I've CC'd Robert Dodier

[sage-support] Re: Computing a sum

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Dodier
, but I guess nusum is not consulted by simplify_sum before the latter gives up. I didn't look into it carefully. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[sage-support] Re: question on using integral() in sage. Fourier transform of unit step function.

2008-09-22 Thread Robert Dodier
infinity, infinity = complex infinity. best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[sage-support] Re: Inert Integrals and Derivatives?

2008-09-01 Thread Robert Dodier
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Aug 30, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Robert Dodier wrote: From the direction this discussion has taken I'm guessing that nobody here is aware that selective evaluation is trivial in Lisp, and Maxima. In both cases a single quote marks stuff that isn't evaluated. I

[sage-support] Re: Inert Integrals and Derivatives?

2008-09-01 Thread Robert Dodier
not distinguished from lists * lack of syntax in programming constructs There's really nothing to recommend any of this. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[sage-support] Re: Inert Integrals and Derivatives?

2008-08-30 Thread Robert Dodier
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Jason Grout wrote: Jason Merrill wrote: The Mathematica syntax is Hold[Integral[x,{x,0,1}]]. This remains unevaluated until it is wrapped with an Evaluate[]. The nice thing about this syntax is that it works for any kind of expression (not

[sage-support] Re: solve() fails to produce a solution

2008-08-29 Thread Robert Dodier
since that will make it easier to port to Lisp. By the way, Maxima has an add-on package named solver which seems to be somewhat stronger than built-in solve. See: maxima/share/algebra/solver best Robert Dodier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email

[sage-support] Re: P.coeffs() issue

2008-08-26 Thread Robert Dodier
5.14.0 and later. Sorry for the bother. LSH was a nonstandard function, replaced by ASH (arithmetic shift). Common Lisp was introduced in the 90's but there are still remnants of pre-CL Lisp in Maxima, which we are slowly cleaning up. FWIW Robert Dodier