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First of all, my apologies for being a noob and a windows user. I'm using sage in virtualbox. I'm at this part of the tutorial: sagenb.org/doc/live/tutorial/programming.html#standalone-python-sage-scripts

I'm having 2 problems:

1) I can't execute "./factor 2006". It says "no such file or directory", but the file is definitely there, and "sage -python factor 2006" works.

2) factoring polynomials doesn't seem to work for me in sage. If I call factor on a string I get a TypeError: "unable to factor n".

Any assistance is much appreciated!

First of all, my apologies for being a noob and a windows user. I'm using sage in virtualbox. I'm at this part of the tutorial: sagenb.org/doc/live/tutorial/programming.html#standalone-python-sage-scripts

I'm having 2 problems:

1) (1) I can't execute "./factor 2006". It says "no such file or directory", but the file is definitely there, and "sage -python factor 2006" works.

2) (2) factoring polynomials doesn't seem to work for me in sage. If I call factor on a string I get a TypeError: "unable to factor n".

Edit: Part of the problem may have been that the script was in a shared folder in VirtualBox. Here is some exact input/output, working completely locally (this changes the error in (2)).

>./factor 2006

/usr/bin/env: sage -python: No such file or directory

>sage -python factor "32*x^5-1"

NameError: name 'x' is not defined

Any assistance is much appreciated!