Re: [sage-support] Re: Is sage 4.3.5 able to solve quadratic equations??

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:53 PM, Matthias Meulien wrote: I guess that the problem comes from the type of p1, not being an Expression. So is it possible to cast this p1 to the Expression class? A direct conversion like the following works: sage: p3 = 0 sage: for c in p1.coeffs(): : p3 =

[sage-support] Re: Is sage 4.3.5 able to solve quadratic equations??

2010-06-22 Thread Matthias Meulien
Thanks for helping. I am trying to compute (not numericaly!) the roots of a quadratic equation build from lagrange_polynomial()... sage: p2 = SR(-3/4*pi)*x^2 + SR(7/4*pi)*x sage: p2.roots(x) [(7/3, 1), (0, 1)] Now we are back to the original question: Why the following rise a type error?? I

[sage-support] Re: Is sage 4.3.5 able to solve quadratic equations??

2010-06-22 Thread Matthias Meulien
I guess that the problem comes from the type of p1, not being an Expression. So is it possible to cast this p1 to the Expression class? A direct conversion like the following works: sage: p3 = 0 sage: for c in p1.coeffs(): : p3 = x*p3 + c : sage: p3 -3/4*pi + 7/4*pi*x sage:

[sage-support] Re: Is sage 4.3.5 able to solve quadratic equations??

2010-06-22 Thread Matthias Meulien
Thanks for helping. I am trying to compute (not numericaly!) the roots of a quadratic equation build from lagrange_polynomial()... sage: p2 = SR(-3/4*pi)*x^2 + SR(7/4*pi)*x sage: p2.roots(x) [(7/3, 1), (0, 1)] Now we are back to the original question: Why the following rise a type error?? I

[sage-support] Re: Is sage 4.3.5 able to solve quadratic equations??

2010-06-21 Thread Wilfried Huss
It works for me in Sage 4.3.3 and in 4.4.2. -- | Sage Version 4.3.3, Release Date: 2010-02-21 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.|

[sage-support] Re: Is sage 4.3.5 able to solve quadratic equations??

2010-06-21 Thread Matthias Meulien
On 21 juin, 08:56, Wilfried Huss h...@finanz.math.tugraz.at wrote: It works for me in Sage 4.3.3 and in 4.4.2. You mean the call to polynomial.roots(x) did not launch any exceptions? It is not clear from your answer: I can't find a call to polynomial.roots(x) in your session... -- To post to

[sage-support] Re: Is sage 4.3.5 able to solve quadratic equations??

2010-06-21 Thread Adam Webb
On Jun 20, 6:50 pm, Matthias Meulien oron...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I can't figure out why the following commands ends with a TypeError exception. sage: basering = PolynomialRing(SR, 'x') sage: polynomial = basering.lagrange_polynomial([(0,0), (1,pi), (2, pi/ 2)]) sage: