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CoCoAManual: searching for ?? mat and for ?? matrix give different results

Added by John Abbott over 6 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

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Closed
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Normal
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Manual/documentation
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Start date:
25 Oct 2017
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% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
1.01 h
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Description

In CoCoA-5

??mat

gives a different result from
??matrix

Is this what we want?

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#1 Updated by John Abbott over 6 years ago

I was hoping to have an interesting issue with number 1111; instead it is just this... sigh!

My guess is that a CoCoA beginner would more likely type ??matrix than ??mat.
I had hoped that they would give the same results...

#2 Updated by Anna Maria Bigatti almost 4 years ago

  • Subject changed from CoCoAManual: searching for mat and for matrix give different results to CoCoAManual: searching for ?? mat and for ?? matrix give different results
  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • Target version changed from CoCoA-5.?.? to CoCoA-5.4.0
  • % Done changed from 0 to 90

? mat and ? matrix give the same result.
?? blah means "all entries whose search keys contain blah", so I don't find it strange to have different output for ?? mat and ?? matrix.

#3 Updated by John Abbott almost 4 years ago

I mostly agree. However, I wonder whether some results which appear under ??mat should also appear under ??matrix.

Here are some candidates:

 ? DiagMat
 ? ElimHomogMat
 ? ElimMat
 ? HilbertMat
 ? IdentityMat
 ? LawrenceMat
 ? LexMat
 ? MakeMatByRows, MakeMatByCols
 ? MakeTermOrd
 ? matrix
 ? MSatLinSolve
 ? NewMat
 ? NewMatFilled
 ? RevLexMat
 ? StdDegLexMat
 ? StdDegRevLexMat
 ? SylvesterMat
 ? TensorMat
 ? XelMat
 ? ZeroMat

What do you think? I suppose it would suffice to add matrix as a keyword...

#4 Updated by Anna Maria Bigatti almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed
  • Assignee set to Anna Maria Bigatti
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100
  • Estimated time set to 1.01 h

John Abbott wrote:

What do you think? I suppose it would suffice to add matrix as a keyword...

As simple as that! true, I did it.

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