Saturday, March 10, 2012

Sage and Python 3?

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Have you ever wondered how difficult it might be to switch Sage from Python 2.7 to Python 3.x?  Some students in my Sage course made a webpa...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

How to get access to Magma

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Despite Sage doing a lot, people still write to me asking about how to get access to Magma . Here is my advice: You can buy a copy of Mag...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

How big is the core Sage library?

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I just did the following with Sage-4.8.alpha5: "sudo apt-get install sloccount". "cp -rv SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage-main /tmp/...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Using Sage to Support Research Mathematics

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When using Sage to support research mathematics, the most important point to make is to strongly encourage people to do the extra work to tu...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Is the time ripe for http://sagenb.com?

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On a Sage mailing list, Karl Crisman wrote: "Regarding the downtime issue [of http://sagenb.org], there have occasionally been rumors o...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Sage: Creating a Viable Free Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB

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The goal of the Sage project is to create a viable fre open source alternative to Magma, Maple(TM), Mathematica(R), and MATLAB(R), which a...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Brief History and Motivation Behind the Sage Coercion Model

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In Sage (like in Magma), most objects are either elements or parents. Think of a "parent" as a set. This Parent/Element idea is ...