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01 Mar 2024

18:40 CoCoALib Slug #1569 (Closed): IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:38 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Implement special version for monomial ideals
Moved to issue #1786
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:12 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> There is a slow test in test-RadicalMembership1 which is slower than the others and ver...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:44 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
There is a slow test in test-RadicalMembership1 which is slower than the others and very slow with debugging on (20m... Anna Maria Bigatti
18:37 CoCoALib Feature #1786 (New): Add new function for IsInRadical for monomial ideals? (RadicalMembership)
A monomial version could be quite a bit faster than the general code.
But is this really needed?
Consider calling @...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:57 CoCoALib Slug #1739 (Closed): IsHomog for ideals
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:48 CoCoALib Slug #1739: IsHomog for ideals
John Abbott wrote:
> Could it be useful to have also *@IsHomog3(I)@* which returns a @bool3@?
it could be handy t...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:37 CoCoALib Slug #1739: IsHomog for ideals
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> check if there is a "homog" flag to be set
The answer is "no" (#1784).
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:53 CoCoALib Feature #1785: Add function IsHomog3(I)?
See implementation of @IsHomog(I)@ in @SparsePolyOps-ideal.C@ (and #1739) Anna Maria Bigatti
14:51 CoCoALib Feature #1785 (New): Add function IsHomog3(I)?
Should we have a "quick" bool3 function (i.e. might return @uncertain@) saying if an ideal is homogeneous?
Useful?
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:36 CoCoALib Feature #1784 (New): Add flag IhaveHomogGensValue for ideals in SparsePolyRing?
We already have... Anna Maria Bigatti
09:44 CoCoALib Support #1782: Make CoCoALib test file for radical
Can we (= Anna) do this quickly ready for next interim release?
John Abbott

29 Feb 2024

15:33 CoCoALib Bug #1749 (Resolved): Configuration hiccups on Mac M1
CoCoALib now seems to compile without too many hiccups... Will check in shortly.
Not yet tried CoCoA-5
John Abbott

28 Feb 2024

21:32 CoCoALib Bug #1749: Configuration hiccups on Mac M1
Aha! The examples with @wrong output@ are *all examples* which are expected to produce output.
There are two like...
John Abbott
20:36 CoCoALib Bug #1749 (In Progress): Configuration hiccups on Mac M1
I have now changed all messages in the checking scripts so that they specify the full path when referring to @LogFile... John Abbott
19:59 CoCoALib Bug #1749: Configuration hiccups on Mac M1
I'm hoping to sort this out soon... ideally by tomorrow (ha ha!). It seems I've forgotten username/password (sigh). ... John Abbott
21:27 CoCoA-5 Support #915: When is a semicolon needed to end a statement/command?
It'd be nice if there were a clean answer to this question, but it is also quite unimportant.
I don't recall ever ha...
John Abbott
21:24 CoCoA-5 Bug #611: GUI: qutting provokes Imminent Disaster
A possibly related curiosity is that when one exits the GUI by typing in *@ciao;@* it is necessary to dismiss a smal... John Abbott
21:21 CoCoA-5 Bug #611: GUI: qutting provokes Imminent Disaster
I have added Uli as a watcher in case he happens to have an idea how to resolve this... he seems to be a Qt magician ... John Abbott
21:18 CoCoA-5 Bug #611: GUI: qutting provokes Imminent Disaster
The problem persists, but the error message is less alarming now:... John Abbott
21:20 CoCoA-5 Bug #612 (Closed): The C5 gui does not exit properly when using the exit menu entry
This is apparently a duplicate of #611, so I shall close this issue.
John Abbott

25 Feb 2024

20:42 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
I can confirm that adding ... Nico Mexis
19:04 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
It seems to have worked on my laptop (Ubuntu). I'll do a few more checks, but hope to include the change in the next... John Abbott
12:39 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
Thanks Ulrich! There's a lot I do not know about Qt (and many other things too). I hope to try out your suggestion... John Abbott

24 Feb 2024

21:00 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
John Abbott wrote:
> Partial success: compilation succeeded, but attempting to run the resulting executable produced...
Ulrich von der Ohe
18:34 CoCoALib Design #1783: Code & doc structure: one-big-file or many-small-files?
A brief phone discussion with Anna yesterday suggested a vague preference for many-small-files.
But no genuine reaso...
John Abbott
18:33 CoCoALib Design #1783 (In Progress): Code & doc structure: one-big-file or many-small-files?
Thoughts about one-big-file vs many-small-files:
For source code:
* ASSUME many-small-files means many header fil...
John Abbott
18:32 CoCoALib Design #1783 (In Progress): Code & doc structure: one-big-file or many-small-files?
I'd like to discuss briefly the pros & cons of many-small-files and one-big-file. Currently the CoCoALib code is a m... John Abbott

23 Feb 2024

12:39 CoCoALib Bug #1579 (Closed): Readexpr/RingElem: unhelpful error message when input is wrong
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Still to do: check other cases.
I cannot remember what I meant.
Now seems pretty goo...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:29 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
Implement special version for monomial ideals Anna Maria Bigatti
12:28 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> there is a new problem (in test-exbugs.C).
> [...]
Fixed, it was an "off-by-one" err...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:27 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
there is a new problem (in test-exbugs.C).... Anna Maria Bigatti
12:28 CoCoALib Bug #1779 (Closed): Radical error with lex (again)
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:41 CoCoALib Bug #1779: Radical error with lex (again)
I made a new issue for implementing and running the tests.
Closing this one ... hoping non errors will come from the...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:07 CoCoALib Feature #379: Iter for subsets/tuples
*ANNA* will test this over the next week :-)
John Abbott
11:39 CoCoALib Support #1782 (New): Make CoCoALib test file for radical
There is a file with some CoCoALib tests for radical in a funny format.
Clean it up.
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:38 CoCoALib Slug #1754 (Closed): IsSqFree poorly implemented
John Abbott
11:34 CoCoALib Support #1265 (Closed): Unregistered TXT files in doc
John Abbott

19 Feb 2024

21:28 CoCoALib Bug #1661: Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
Winfried sent me the following message by email:... John Abbott

17 Feb 2024

22:58 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
These differences between the linkers on Windows and Linux are really unfortunate sometimes...
In that case, I would...
Nico Mexis
21:27 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
Partial success: compilation succeeded, but attempting to run the resulting executable produced an error *@Cannot fin... John Abbott
21:07 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
Great! Thanks for sorting this out. I shall test it (on Linux) shortly -- let's hope it works!
John Abbott
15:41 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
I have updated my documentation file. Actually, only three CygWin packages are needed in order to successfully build ... Nico Mexis
12:05 CoCoA-5 Bug #1713: Windows: Qt-Gui does not link correctly
I did not give up that easily on this issue: Today, I was finally able to compile the Qt5-Gui on Windows!
Recently, ...
Nico Mexis

16 Feb 2024

21:31 CoCoALib Feature #1513: Better test for univariate-ness (and better conversion)
Assuming we do implement this, what should its UI be?
Do we already have a function which converts from @SparsePolyR...
John Abbott
21:22 CoCoALib Design #1735 (In Progress): PushFront/PushBack without checks?
I have just tried disabling the checks inside *@PushFront@* and *@PushBack@*. There was no difference when calling @... John Abbott
10:23 CoCoALib Design #1735: PushFront/PushBack without checks?
Surely worth a try.
@PushFront_nocheck@?
I could imagine cases when this might be used (homomorphisms preserving or...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:00 CoCoALib Design #1735: PushFront/PushBack without checks?
As I stated in the comment just above: I should test whether a non-checking impl would really make it faster. Maybe ... John Abbott
21:05 CoCoALib Bug #1661 (In Progress): Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
Ah, thanks for making me aware of this issue. Actually, recently I put my instructions online for exactly that.
I ha...
Nico Mexis
20:54 CoCoALib Bug #1661: Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
I have added Nico Mexis as a watcher. He has successfully built CoCoA-5 for Microsoft, so may have some useful insig... John Abbott
20:53 CoCoALib Feature #1670: Build also dynamic/shared library for CoCoALib?
Here are some posibly useful links: (I searched for *@libtool tutorial@*
* @https://stackoverflow.com/questions/446...
John Abbott
20:47 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
I have confirmed that Anna's 0-dim check makes it much faster. I have added a link to issue #1103 which is about pse... John Abbott
16:06 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
John Abbott wrote:
> As far as I can see *@MinPowerInIdeal@* is already implemented, using the method Anna described...
Anna Maria Bigatti
20:44 CoCoALib Design #1642 (In Progress): interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
I have made a first impl. Anna is sceptical, partly because the code behaves differently depending on the coefficien... John Abbott
17:02 CoCoALib Design #1642: interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
The source code seems to be in *@SparsePolyOps-vector.C@* around line 32.
John Abbott
10:19 CoCoALib Design #1642: interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
John Abbott wrote:
> Would we also want to have @interreduced@ work when the coeff ring is @ZZ@?
Not until someon...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:42 CoCoALib Design #1642: interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
Would we also want to have @interreduced@ work when the coeff ring is @ZZ@?
If so, we need to think about the semant...
John Abbott
18:19 CoCoALib Design #849 (In Progress): Cleanup MinPoly code
In 8 years we have never really needed the proposed new API, so we may as well *reject* this issue (as Anna suggested... John Abbott
18:05 CoCoALib Feature #813: Implement "elim" in CoCoALib
The syntax should be compatible with whatever we use for @ElimMat@, I presume.
Well, there is an important differenc...
John Abbott
18:00 CoCoALib Feature #1763 (Rejected): implement ideal(R) for zero ideal, with no generators?
No longer needed because @ideal(zero(R))@ now gives ideal in R with no generators. Anna Maria Bigatti
17:51 CoCoALib Slug #1739 (Resolved): IsHomog for ideals
check if there is a "homog" flag to be set Anna Maria Bigatti
17:41 CoCoALib Feature #645 (Rejected): Automatic mapping of RingElem: user selectable at run-time (GlobalManager?)
We have auto mapping in many places without any real problems.
If the user disables auto mapping then this may cause...
John Abbott
17:30 CoCoALib Slug #1394: Oddly slow GBasis computation (slow final cleanup)
Try... Anna Maria Bigatti
09:55 CoCoALib Feature #1472: Idea for for loops
While it can be difficult to say much positive about Julia, it does offer a convenient way of using "iterators" (and ... John Abbott
09:46 CoCoALib Bug #1575: DynamicBitset missing arg checks
There are a few functions whose name has a suffix like *@_NoArgChecks@*.
OK, a quick grep produces just one such pub...
John Abbott
09:33 CoCoALib Support #1672: Documentation: a good model to follow?
Here is a list of features it would be nice to offer in the CoCoALib documentation:
* cross-references (xrefs)
* sm...
John Abbott
09:24 CoCoALib Feature #1748: July 2023
What is the status of this issue? How much did we achieve?
John Abbott

15 Feb 2024

22:35 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
As far as I can see *@MinPowerInIdeal@* is already implemented, using the method Anna described above.
See near line...
John Abbott
16:41 CoCoALib Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
John Abbott wrote:
> The "stupid approach" gets the answer in 10s (on my Linux laptop).
Even faster like this.
<...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:32 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
Fixed the sum I + ideal(1)
Added check also for I + ideal(x, x-1) (when ideal @HasGBasis@)...
Anna Maria Bigatti

09 Feb 2024

10:36 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
John Abbott wrote:
> After brief consideration, I have decided to keep in this issue discussion related to what "cle...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:13 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
I remind you of the function *@IsConstant@* which should be helpful in this case (if IsField(CoeffRing)).
John Abbott
10:09 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
John Abbott wrote:
> Here is an example where the resulting gens could clearly be cleaned up:
> [...]
This is st...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:29 CoCoALib Feature #1206: syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
OK to require that input to *@syz@* are all non-zero.
Also OK for a new fn which accepts zero -- not sure how this s...
John Abbott
10:03 CoCoALib Feature #1206: syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
Should we make @SyzOfGens@ obsolescent? does it do anything more than calling @syz(gens(I))@?
(apart from fixing th...
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:51 CoCoALib Feature #1206: syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
This is my suggestion: implement a new function @syz0@ which allows 0s in the input (giving them conventional weights... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:38 CoCoALib Feature #1206 (In Progress): syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
Currently we have decided to forbid generator 0 in ideals (#1647), so @SyzOfGens@ will never find a 0, keeping in min... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:16 CoCoA-5 Bug #1781 (Feedback): GenReprCompute: SERIOUS ERROR
fixed and checked in.
@GenReprCompute@ used @SyzOfGens(ideal(concat([A], [ f in GensB | not(IsZero(f)) ])))@ which, ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
07:59 CoCoA-5 Bug #1781: GenReprCompute: SERIOUS ERROR
I get the same error with... Anna Maria Bigatti

08 Feb 2024

22:08 CoCoALib Feature #1778 (In Progress): Homogenizer
I have implemented @homogenizer@ in OSCAR, and am happy with the interface it gives. Also some others are using it, ... John Abbott
22:02 CoCoA-5 Bug #1781 (Feedback): GenReprCompute: SERIOUS ERROR
I have just sync'ed with CVS, and @CoCoA5/tests/tut-CoCoLA3@ gives **SERIOUS ERROR**
Oops! Too late to invesigate...
John Abbott
21:55 CoCoALib Feature #202: MatrixView/function for viewing a single row or column (RowMat, ColMat)
What is the status of this issue? With luck we can soon close it!
John Abbott
21:51 CoCoALib Support #1687 (In Progress): Release CoCoALib 0.99850
John Abbott
21:37 CoCoALib Feature #379 (Feedback): Iter for subsets/tuples
I have now added a first impl of *@TupleIter@* following the idea behind @SubsetIter@, _i.e._ the tuples are from the... John Abbott

07 Feb 2024

11:26 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
Modified ... Anna Maria Bigatti

06 Feb 2024

16:47 CoCoALib Bug #1779 (Feedback): Radical error with lex (again)
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> John Abbott wrote:
> > It would be easy to allow the factorize to return a result if th...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:12 CoCoALib Bug #1779: Radical error with lex (again)
John Abbott wrote:
> It would be easy to allow the factorize to return a result if the input is a non-zero constant....
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:51 CoCoALib Feature #1780: radical for ideals in SparsePolyRing: code in C++
Now the test from #1390 is fast (in C++), so I re-activated it. Anna Maria Bigatti
10:17 CoCoALib Feature #1780: radical for ideals in SparsePolyRing: code in C++
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> It should all go through @myTestIsRadical@, ... and now it isn't (I had forced the funct...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:10 CoCoALib Feature #1780: radical for ideals in SparsePolyRing: code in C++
The package was first translated by Alice Moallemy, then fixed by Nicolas Jagersma (2023).
Now it's been officially ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:01 CoCoALib Feature #1780 (Closed): radical for ideals in SparsePolyRing: code in C++
Port the code from the CoCoa-5 package radical.cpkg5 into CoCoALib Anna Maria Bigatti
08:48 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
Should we also have that @ideal(zero(R))@ has empty list of generators?
I think so.
And that would be handy, if we ...
Anna Maria Bigatti

05 Feb 2024

21:29 CoCoALib Bug #1779 (In Progress): Radical error with lex (again)
It would be easy to allow the factorize to return a result if the input is a non-zero constant.
I suppose I made it ...
John Abbott
18:32 CoCoALib Bug #1779: Radical error with lex (again)
first bug fixed.
New bug:...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:57 CoCoALib Bug #1779 (Closed): Radical error with lex (again)
This problem resurfaced now that radical is in C++.... Anna Maria Bigatti
12:21 CoCoALib Slug #1739: IsHomog for ideals
Fixed. Now checking if gens are monomial, then if gens are homogeneous.... Anna Maria Bigatti
 

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