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What about the name 'Sage'? I thought it came from Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation, (See for example [1] or [2], however there is no mention of this on the 'about' page at sagemath.org. Are they trying to drop the meaning and just call it Sage, or is Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation a Backronym. Beamishboy (talk) 23:37, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What's with the "Gallery"? It makes the page very ad-like. I don't think I've seen any other software pages with "galleries". Either the illustration is relevant to the entry or it's not. The gallery seems to be just a parking lot for pretty pictures. --207.203.89.1 (talk) 21:43, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Will remove. 129.67.19.252 (talk) 14:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]


  • The text says: "The lead developer of Sage, William Stein, is a mathematician at the University of Washington who employs students for Sage development." Simon Plouffe once said: "They should hire professionnal programmers and mathematicians at Maple instead of relying on the 'graduate student algorithm' to improve Maple!. For those who do not know what is that algorithm: You put a graduate student in a locked room and you feed that person from time to time by sliding a sandwich in a little trap door, you just wait that the algorithm is done. It is cheap and it works most of the time." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.114.209.87 (talk) 20:28, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]