From 8c4e441050c3f4cce678bed4d3f112ba26800cb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bryan newbold Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:36:07 -0400 Subject: made software dir, added pynfs --- software/sagemath | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 software/sagemath (limited to 'software/sagemath') diff --git a/software/sagemath b/software/sagemath new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f01883f --- /dev/null +++ b/software/sagemath @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +================== +SAGE Math Package +================== + +.. warning:: Under progress! + +This is a reference for the `sage `_ math package. + +Web Notebooks +----------------------------- +To start run ``notebook()`` from an interactive shell; passing a directory as an argument will store files there. Also try``sage_wiki()``! + +To get help on a ``cmd`` type ``cmd?`` in an cell and press the Escape key. + +Interactive Shell +----------------------------- +Instead of the usual python ``**`` you can use ``^`` like the rest of the world, at least from the notebook and shell; use the old operator in scripts? + +Prefacing with ``time`` gives processor time statistics; you can wrap a series of commands with ``t = cputime()`` and ``cputime(t)`` to get the sum of time statistics; ``walltime`` works similarly. + +The general trick for saving text representations of objects is to open a file dscriptor and write the ``str`` of the object to it. + +``save_session`` and ``load_session`` save all objects in the session to a ``.sobj`` file. -- cgit v1.2.3