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20 Apr 2012

12:19 CoCoALib Feature #125: Matrix equation solving; linear system solving
While speaking to Renzo about choosing the name, I realised that solving a linear system is slightly different from s... John Abbott
11:56 CoCoALib Feature #107: Recognizing finite fields
I really don't like the name @CardExp@ -- I think it is too cryptic.
The value it returns is log(cardinality)/log(...
John Abbott
11:13 CoCoALib Bug #135 (Closed): Revise interface to SmallFpImpl & friends
After starting work on the reimplementation of @DUPFF@ in C++, I discovered that the interface to @SmallFpImpl@ is ne... John Abbott

19 Apr 2012

23:59 CoCoALib Feature #134 (New): Convenience ring ctors and homs
Here are some ideas for convenient ring ctors which make homs too:
* change PPOrdering (makes new poly ring, and pro...
John Abbott
17:02 CoCoA-5 Feature #133 (New): Qt GUI: Make better distinction between input and output in the output window
The following input:... John Abbott

18 Apr 2012

22:22 CoCoALib Feature #107: Recognizing finite fields
First impls have been made.
The cardinality is represented by a fn called @CardExp@ which gives the exponent of @p...
John Abbott
22:10 CoCoA-5 Bug #38: GUI: open file "with C5"
I sometimes have a similar problem with Firefox: if I double click on a @*.html@ file and Firefox was not already run... John Abbott
22:01 CoCoA-5 Bug #94: Default reason for protected variables
After trying some possibilities, my preference is now for the reason to appear in brackets, like this:... John Abbott
17:04 CoCoA-5 Bug #94: Default reason for protected variables
I suggest the following format for the error message:... John Abbott
16:52 CoCoA-5 Bug #102: Packages: should exported functions be automatically "Protect"ed?
I agree that names exported from packages should be protected (probably with the reason being that it was exported fr... John Abbott
16:31 CoCoA-5 Bug #103 (Closed): Bad error mesg using operator ":"
Corrected erroneous actual parameters in a call in @ColonExpression:implEval@ in file @Interpreter.C@.
I simply co...
John Abbott
15:58 CoCoA-5 Feature #131: Conversion from bool to INT
We cannot use the Iverson bracket syntax directly because it already has a meaning: @[N>0]@ will produce a list conta... John Abbott
15:46 CoCoA-5 Feature #131: Conversion from bool to INT
Re Automatic conversion:
* Advantages: no need to choose a name, compactness
* Disadvantages: possible ambiguity, uns...
John Abbott
14:56 CoCoA-5 Bug #100: BringIn should map only the indets in its arg
JAA suggests that @BringIn@ should be simple rather than "clever". For instance it should give an error in the follo... John Abbott

17 Apr 2012

21:21 CoCoA-5 Bug #118: unistd and call to access in Main.C
Increased priority to "high".
Waiting for Anna's return to discuss the correctness/usefulness of allowing CoCoA-5 ...
John Abbott
21:10 CoCoA-5 Bug #132 (Closed): BringIn should allow reduction modulo p
Currently @BringIn@ does not allow one to move from char 0 to char non-zero.... John Abbott

16 Apr 2012

16:36 CoCoA-5 Feature #131 (Closed): Conversion from bool to INT
Alessio would like a conversion from {false,true} to {0,1}.
Wikipedia mentions a function called "Iverson bracket" w...
John Abbott
15:50 CoCoALib Feature #40: Squarefree factorization - Alessio d'Ali`
Alessio did numerous timing experiments to understand whether reordering the variables could lead to a useful gain in... John Abbott
10:50 CoCoALib Feature #125: Matrix equation solving; linear system solving
As mentioned in the previous post, currently I have used several fn names for solving linear systems: a generic fn, a... John Abbott
10:45 CoCoALib Feature #125: Matrix equation solving; linear system solving
What names should we use for the fns which find a solution to a linear system? The name may be related to the name f... John Abbott

15 Apr 2012

22:07 CoCoALib Bug #130 (New): Design problem in ideals
Now that there is a linear system solver I tried to write a general implementation for
@SparsePolyRingBase::IdealImp...
John Abbott
21:59 CoCoALib Slug #129: Better GCD
Implemented a first version where some GCD computations are passed to the old CoCoA-4 code. It is a poor implementat... John Abbott
21:38 CoCoALib Slug #129 (New): Better GCD
Currently CoCoALib computes GCDs using GBasis/syzygy computations. This is often terribly slow -- there is faster co... John Abbott
21:31 CoCoA-5 Bug #52 (Closed): GUI: problem with "--" comment
Fixed.
*BUT* there remains a more subtle problem: the way the GUI determines the state of the parser appears to be...
John Abbott

13 Apr 2012

18:29 CoCoALib Feature #125: Matrix equation solving; linear system solving
Added some doc in @MatrixArith.txt@, and a new test @test-matrix3.C@.
No new example program yet.
New fns not yet a...
John Abbott
14:30 CoCoALib Feature #125: Matrix equation solving; linear system solving
JAA has an impl of the generic case (over a field).
JAA has written a test for this first impl.
No example, and no ...
John Abbott

10 Apr 2012

21:10 CoCoA-5 Bug #118 (Resolved): unistd and call to access in Main.C
John Abbott
21:10 CoCoA-5 Bug #118: unistd and call to access in Main.C
To answer the question "why...?" in the last update: the fn @access@ returns 0 if the file exists, and -1 if it does ... John Abbott

05 Apr 2012

15:36 CoCoA-5 Feature #128 (Closed): wordlist.txt generation
Autocompletion depends on the file wordlist.txt
Right now we are still using the cocoa-4 wordlist (because we cannot...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:27 CoCoALib Feature #127 (In Progress): Convert DUPFF code to C++
Convert the old factorizer C code "DUPFF" into C++. John Abbott
14:26 CoCoALib Feature #126 (New): New datastructures directory
Create a new datastructures directory to hold source code for impls of various datastructures (e.g. the various Distr... John Abbott
14:23 CoCoALib Feature #125 (In Progress): Matrix equation solving; linear system solving
Add code for solving linear systems. There are several subcases:
* generic case over a field
* full rank and not f...
John Abbott
14:12 CoCoALib Feature #124: change long args in matrices into MachineInt (?)
The args being considered are "indices"; we should be consistent regarding all sorts of index (well, at least non-neg... John Abbott

04 Apr 2012

15:56 CoCoA-5 Bug #118: unistd and call to access in Main.C
The purpose of the original code is unclear -- indeed it looks implausible/wrong.... John Abbott
15:20 CoCoALib Feature #124 (Rejected): change long args in matrices into MachineInt (?)
For "public" functions (not member functions) like... Anna Maria Bigatti
13:07 CoCoALib Feature #123 (New): IdealOfPoints with generic coeffs
Think about the implementation of IdealOfPoints in the case of generic coefficients (_e.g._ in *@QQ(a)@*)
Implement ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:37 CoCoALib Feature #122 (Closed): Porting "LinKer"
This issue is *closed*; it is a *DUPLICATE* of #206
Port cocoa-4 C code about LinKer to cocoalib.
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:22 CoCoALib Feature #121 (Closed): Porting "IdealOfPoints"
Port in cocoalib the cocoa-4 C code about BuchbergerMoeller.
An important step in it is the lifting from Fp --> QQ...
Anna Maria Bigatti

03 Apr 2012

21:48 CoCoALib Slug #120: LT over QQ: surprisingly slow
My "noddy" program for computing GBases can do the whole computation in a few seconds...
John Abbott
21:08 CoCoALib Slug #120: LT over QQ: surprisingly slow
Here is another suspect starting ideal in @QQ[x,y,z],Lex@
@[x^4 +x*y^2*z +y^4, x^3*y +x^2*z^2 +z^2]@
John Abbott
20:40 CoCoALib Slug #120 (New): LT over QQ: surprisingly slow
The following should compute a LT ideal of a small ideal (using lex).
It takes longer than I would expect over QQ --...
John Abbott
19:05 Bug #53 (Resolved): MSVC10 compilation
John Abbott
19:03 Bug #58 (Closed): MSVC10 - more things and overhead
Sundry other changes to accomodate MSVC bugs.
Added some @#if@ conditionals as workarounds; ideally these should e...
John Abbott
19:00 Bug #54 (Closed): MSVC10 - #include <iterator>
Added include directives for @iterator@ in the cases where it was needed. John Abbott
18:58 Bug #55 (Closed): MSVC10 - static member fields
Exercising the option not to define static data members if their addrs are not needed, I have removed all such defns,... John Abbott
18:53 Bug #56 (Closed): MSVC10 - unistd.h
All references to @unistd.h@ have been removed. The code now compiles on Windows (as well as Linux & MacOSX). This ... John Abbott
18:50 Bug #57 (Closed): MSVC10 - BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT
The problem was that @BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT@ requires at least 1 arg, though this is not entirely evident from their docum... John Abbott
17:30 CoCoALib Bug #119 (Closed): CoCoA4io
The file @CoCoA4io@ should not be inside CoCoALib -- it belongs in CoCoAServer.
Move it... will lead to some consequ...
John Abbott
15:41 CoCoA-5 Bug #118: unistd and call to access in Main.C
Discovering that BOOST seems to offer a ready-made solution, and that @access@ is old-style C-library.
John Abbott
15:40 CoCoA-5 Bug #118 (Closed): unistd and call to access in Main.C
Replace call to @access@ in Main.C (about line 192) by calls to BOOST filesystem fns such as @exists@ and @is_regular... John Abbott
14:58 CoCoA-5 Bug #117: Added 3 times defn of isblank fn
As far as I can tell BOOST does not offer such a simple fn.
John Abbott
14:44 CoCoA-5 Bug #117 (Closed): Added 3 times defn of isblank fn
To enable compilation on MSVC, I had to add defn of @isblank@.
Currently there are 3 separate (but identical) defns ...
John Abbott

02 Apr 2012

16:26 CoCoA-5 Bug #88 (Closed): Makefile problem with GUI on linux
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:22 CoCoALib Feature #116 (Closed): ordering matrices with rational coefficients
Anna Maria Bigatti

30 Mar 2012

19:09 CoCoALib Feature #116 (Closed): ordering matrices with rational coefficients
it is useful to allow rational coefficients (why not?) and appropriate conversion into ZZ when necessary (optimized O... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:36 CoCoALib Bug #22: Rename PPMonoidEvZZ?
We have not yet decided about internal impl names.
JAA still likes his suggestion made two posts ago.
John Abbott
14:34 CoCoALib Bug #22: Rename PPMonoidEvZZ?
We don't have time to complete this change before 0.9950.
However we have decided that it is simplest for the user...
John Abbott
12:55 CoCoALib Support #75: Documentation review by Caleo
Alessandra reports:
# the examples are mostly OK; she reported some minor problems which J+A attended to immediately...
John Abbott

28 Mar 2012

14:29 CoCoA-5 Bug #115 (Closed): PP ordering bug
The error was in Interpreter.C: I got the wrong "symmetry" with LessOrEqual.... Anna Maria Bigatti
13:53 CoCoA-5 Bug #115 (Closed): PP ordering bug
... John Abbott

27 Mar 2012

13:28 CoCoA-5 Feature #18: Printing matrices: I/O unified style for CoCoA-5?
John Abbott wrote:
> I do not like the "abandoned" square bracket at the end of the first line.
>
> Generally I pref...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:04 CoCoA-5 Feature #18: Printing matrices: I/O unified style for CoCoA-5?
I do not like the "abandoned" square bracket at the end of the first line.
After speaking yesterday, we also conclud...
John Abbott

26 Mar 2012

19:11 CoCoALib Bug #114 (In Progress): Ideals of polynomials
Currently operations special to ideals in polynomial rings are located in @SparsePolyRing.H@ -- this seems incorrect.... John Abbott
17:42 CoCoA-5 Feature #18: Printing matrices: I/O unified style for CoCoA-5?
after using the "old style" for a while I'm getting more and more convinced that a matrix should also print its own r... Anna Maria Bigatti

23 Mar 2012

17:02 CoCoALib Feature #113 (In Progress): Introduce PartialHom
Currently CoCoALib does not distinguish between proper homs and partial homs.
Thus we can create a (partial) RingH...
John Abbott
14:41 CoCoA-5 Feature #7: Automatic mapping between (some) rings
Probably the simplest definition is simply that R1 is "simpler" than R2 if the construction of R2 passed explicitly v... John Abbott
12:39 CoCoALib Support #75: Documentation review by Caleo
Alessandra reports:
* doc for almost all rings (except @ring@, @RingElem@) needs to be better organized
* reference...
John Abbott
11:37 CoCoALib Support #112 (New): automatic creation of all function signatures
Is it possible to create a readable collection of all function signatures and (more difficult) to link to the correct... Anna Maria Bigatti

22 Mar 2012

16:05 Bug #57: MSVC10 - BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT
I wonder why the only reports I can find on the internet about problems with @BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT@ and Visual C++ are ou... John Abbott
15:20 CoCoA-5 Feature #90 (Closed): Make the new fn CoefficientsWRT available in C5
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:50 CoCoA-5 Feature #90: Make the new fn CoefficientsWRT available in C5
John Abbott wrote:
> At the moment it is not clear to JAA what the CoCoALib interface should be if we adopt the RING...
Anna Maria Bigatti
 

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