Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Conference

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

| Alfredo,
| 
| On October 12, 2006 11:57 AM you wrote:
| > 
| > Hi Bill,
| > 
| > Wondering if you are back from Sage Days, and how did it go?
| 
| Yes, I am back. I would say that it went "well". And I have a
| lot more to write about it when I have more time and energy -
| maybe tomorrow.
| 
| In short: The Sage developers are certainly an enthusiastic,
| energetic and ambitious group. I think Sage development benefits
| greatly by being based in a university post-graduate environment
| and with a lead developer who seems very much "in-tune" with
| current open source development practices. I wish Axiom had an
| active sponsor of this kind...

Hey, you should be more kind to Tim and others :-)

[...]

| For example, there was a lot of discussion at the meeting about
| implementing Padic integers as a computational domain in Sage.
| I don't know anything about Padic integers but during a quick
| presentation of the new Axiom interface that I wrote during
| the coding sprints I demonstrated that Axiom actually already
| implements at least one of the methods of representing Padics
| that was being discussed. Of course, as Axiom developers we
| already know that the Axiom algebra library covers large (and
| sadly, mostly undocumented) area of computational mathematics.

is that what padic.spad and spadiclib.spad touch?

-- Gaby