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From 27 May 2013 to 25 Jun 2013

20 Jun 2013

14:46 CoCoALib Design #377: IsDivisible -- exact semantics?
JAA continues to believe that attempting to compute @0/0@ in any ring should give an error. Giving an answer is almo... John Abbott

19 Jun 2013

19:01 CoCoALib Feature #379 (Closed): Iter for subsets/tuples
Add new iters for subsets/tuples.
[JAA see file @ShortTerm/oscar.C@]
John Abbott
17:16 CoCoA-5 Bug #378 (Closed): Ungraceful behaviour: Source inside For loop
The following input produces an unexpected effect:... John Abbott
12:20 Bug #238: Cleaner CVS?
Another argument: The CVS merged some Makefile_dependencies and when I then tried to compile I just got
Makefile_...
Christof Soeger
10:57 CoCoALib Design #377 (In Progress): IsDivisible -- exact semantics?
The problem with dividing @4/2@ in @ZZ/6@ is that the true answer is @2@ in @ZZ/3@ -- a different ring! The answer ... John Abbott
10:28 CoCoALib Design #377 (Closed): IsDivisible -- exact semantics?
While dealing with issue #248 I realised that the exact semantics of @IsDivisible@ are not clear.
The problem is whe...
John Abbott

18 Jun 2013

23:11 CoCoA-5 Design #376: Hilbert: Redesign hp.cpkg5 and public functions in TmpHilbert.C
work on numerator in hp.cpkg5 Anna Maria Bigatti
23:08 CoCoA-5 Design #376 (In Progress): Hilbert: Redesign hp.cpkg5 and public functions in TmpHilbert.C
modify the current design (hp.cpkg5) to reflect the decision made for CoCoALib. Anna Maria Bigatti
23:05 CoCoALib Feature #203 (In Progress): Function to get the Hilbert Polynomial ring from GlobalManager
Now that we have *RingQQt(n)* clean up older tentatives.... Anna Maria Bigatti
19:12 CoCoALib Design #254: How to return a Hilbert Series in CoCoALib
Christof Soeger wrote:
> Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> > ... what about *@RingQQt(n)@*? That is pretty self-explanat...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:40 CoCoALib Design #254: How to return a Hilbert Series in CoCoALib
New name implemented & checked-in.
John Abbott
14:15 CoCoALib Design #254: How to return a Hilbert Series in CoCoALib
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> ... what about *@RingQQt(n)@*? That is pretty self-explanatory and flexible ;-)
Yes ...
Christof Soeger
08:54 CoCoALib Design #254: How to return a Hilbert Series in CoCoALib
Christof Soeger wrote:
> I spoke with W.Bruns about a name for the ring. One suggestion is PolynomialInvarianceRing ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:37 CoCoA-5 Feature #375 (New): allow single function call in "use" : e.g. "Use NewFractionField(R);"
After "use" the interpreter expectes the special poly ring constructor, such as @QQ[x,y]@, with the unconventional me... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:49 CoCoALib Feature #374: Porting "IdealOfProjectivePoints"
I know this is not pretty, but for the time being there is this workaround (if you can put your points in an affine s... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:34 CoCoALib Feature #374: Porting "IdealOfProjectivePoints"
requested by Marie Ermete and Susan Cooper
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:15 CoCoALib Feature #374 (Closed): Porting "IdealOfProjectivePoints"
port also @IdealOfProjectivePoints@ Anna Maria Bigatti

17 Jun 2013

18:26 CoCoALib Bug #351 (Resolved): Problems with DenseMatImpl::myResize
fixed really subtle bug in myResize()... Anna Maria Bigatti
16:08 CoCoALib Design #254: How to return a Hilbert Series in CoCoALib
I spoke with W.Bruns about a name for the ring. One suggestion is PolynomialInvarianceRing (or a shortened form) inst... Christof Soeger
11:59 CoCoALib Design #254: How to return a Hilbert Series in CoCoALib
Design:
new class *HilbertSeries*: member fields
*myNum* RingElem and *myDenFactors* factorization.
Constructors...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:26 CoCoA-5 Support #325: CoCoAManual: display syntax first
I changed the code in OnlineHelp.C so that syntax is displayed first (2013-02).
It would be worth having the syntax ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:15 CoCoALib Feature #373 (In Progress): add DeleteCol, DeleteRow
first implementation and some tests and documentation. Anna Maria Bigatti
15:12 CoCoALib Feature #373 (Closed): add DeleteCol, DeleteRow
Add functions for deleting row and cols from matrices (no throw guarantee) Anna Maria Bigatti
14:31 CoCoA-5 Feature #372 (Feedback): add IsFactorClosed
Added a reasonable impl of *@IsFactorClosed@* to the package @monomial_ideals.cpkg5@.
Added doc to CoCoAManual.
John Abbott
11:18 CoCoA-5 Feature #372 (Closed): add IsFactorClosed
Anna Maria Bigatti

14 Jun 2013

09:50 CoCoA-5 Feature #243 (In Progress): Normaliz tests for CoCoA5
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:49 CoCoA-5 Design #332 (Resolved): Approx pts preprocessing fns
Anna Maria Bigatti

13 Jun 2013

15:58 CoCoA-5 Feature #371 (Feedback): Resurrect LinearSimplify
JAA has revived the code -- the main problem was that @Coefficients(F,X)@ in CoCoA-4 used the opposite order to @Coef... John Abbott
15:26 CoCoA-5 Feature #371 (Closed): Resurrect LinearSimplify
translate LinearSimplify package to CoCoA-5 Anna Maria Bigatti
15:35 CoCoA-5 Support #325 (In Progress): CoCoAManual: display syntax first
Anna Maria Bigatti

12 Jun 2013

16:03 CoCoA-5 Support #322: Installation instructions (on website)
slight improvement (at cocoaschool 2013) Anna Maria Bigatti
15:50 CoCoA-5 Support #370 (Feedback): OnlineHelp: Problem with "><" in syntax of CartesianProduct
fixed "OnlineHelp.C" and improved entry for "CartesianProduct" in CoCoAHelp.xml Anna Maria Bigatti
15:47 CoCoA-5 Support #370 (Closed): OnlineHelp: Problem with "><" in syntax of CartesianProduct
Anna Maria Bigatti

11 Jun 2013

18:41 CoCoA-5 Support #369 (Closed): write documentation for TgCone and other function from the "primary" package
TgCone is not efficient, but it does what it should. Document it (Anna). Anna Maria Bigatti
18:33 CoCoA-5 Feature #368 (In Progress): port SmithNormalForm (CoCoA-4)package to CoCoA-5
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:31 CoCoA-5 Feature #367 (Closed): implement LF/DF for an ideal
*LF* is the *leading form*. As for the other _leading_ functions it throws an error if the polynomial is 0.
*DF* is...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:24 CoCoALib Feature #366 (In Progress): function (CoCoALib) for minimal generators (like old Minimalize)
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:58 CoCoALib Feature #366 (Closed): function (CoCoALib) for minimal generators (like old Minimalize)
Might require some thoughts about @GBMill@
*2014-04-02* postponed again @GBMill@. Added functions *MinGens* and *...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:56 CoCoA-5 Feature #365 (Closed): add function to compute minimal generators (like Minimalize)
*2014-04* added *MinGens*, *MinGensGeneral* (for ideals and submodules) *minimalize*, *minimalized* (for ideals) Anna Maria Bigatti

06 Jun 2013

08:04 CoCoALib Bug #335: Equality of (sub)modules
added documentation and tests Anna Maria Bigatti

04 Jun 2013

07:24 CoCoA-5 Feature #200: add modules and module operations
John Abbott wrote:
> * @IsIn@
> * equality test
added *IsElem*, *IsContained* for (sub)modules, and then *IsIn* and ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
07:20 CoCoALib Bug #335 (Resolved): Equality of (sub)modules
mostly done, needs cleaning Anna Maria Bigatti

03 Jun 2013

17:38 CoCoALib Feature #312: LongRange(a,b) returning vector of long a..b (included)
It might be worth moving the impl into its own *separate file*: this would remove the need to include @vector@ in the... John Abbott
17:31 CoCoALib Feature #300 (Closed): Add fault tolerant rational reconstruction to library
The code was effectively tested while updating the article. So I'm regarding it as OK. Closing!
John Abbott
17:29 CoCoALib Feature #248: IsDivisible for RingElem with nice interface
Might be able to talk about this in Osnabruck... John Abbott
17:26 CoCoALib Bug #264 (In Progress): Compilation problem with "degree.H" (inline fn defns)
Why are the ctor and the mem fn @FastCmp@ inline?
Now that the components of the degree vector are @BigInt@, I doubt ...
John Abbott
16:23 CoCoA-5 Design #364 (Closed): Incr command/function
I would like to have a command for incrementing a counter; and probably another for decrementing.
So instead of wr...
John Abbott
16:15 CoCoA-5 Design #363 (New): Colon operator, 2nd arg
Currently CoCoA-5 accepts syntactically the following input... John Abbott

31 May 2013

16:58 CoCoALib Support #195: OrdvArith documentation needs rewriting
This is not urgent for 0.9953 so moving to 0.9954.
John Abbott
16:56 CoCoALib Feature #298: Valgrind: keep CoCoALib at 0 memory leaks
Simply "moving" the issue to 0.9954 so we remember to do valgrind again.
John Abbott
14:41 CoCoALib Feature #298: Valgrind: keep CoCoALib at 0 memory leaks
2013-05-30 all tests clean!
John Abbott
16:53 CoCoALib Bug #89 (Closed): MachineInt or long as fn arg type for indices
Since the actual changes I had to make were minimal (i.e. we had anyway used @long@ for almost all instances of indic... John Abbott
16:50 CoCoALib Design #268 (Closed): Exponent range (in power products)
Added a comment in the newly organized installation guides (see @INSTALL-advanced.txt@). There is no perfect answer ... John Abbott
15:46 CoCoA-5 Feature #359: RingOf for list
Such a function would be helpful now. If we allow automatic conversion of RingElems in the future (seems quite likel... John Abbott
15:15 CoCoA-5 Feature #359: RingOf for list
similar function in cocoalib is *HasUniqueOwner* Anna Maria Bigatti
10:45 CoCoA-5 Feature #309: (Multi)BlockMatrix
John Abbott wrote:
> JAA still prefers the name *@BlockMat@* to the unwieldy @MultiBlockMat@.
> New issue for 5.0.4...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:30 CoCoA-5 Feature #309: (Multi)BlockMatrix
JAA still prefers the name *@BlockMat@* to the unwieldy @MultiBlockMat@.
New issue for 5.0.4??
John Abbott
09:32 CoCoA-5 Feature #309 (Closed): (Multi)BlockMatrix
Final decision is to make it public because it is indeed quite handy
(but has an uneven behaviour on rows and cols a...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:42 CoCoA-5 Feature #347: C5 cannot compute derivative of a ratfn
added example in manual. Anna Maria Bigatti

30 May 2013

17:15 CoCoA-5 Feature #362: New function: IsZeroDivisor
done, tested, documented, cvs-ed, published cocoa-5 (for macos-10.6)
(cocoalib code is a bit fragile, but it's a pre...
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:40 CoCoALib Bug #89: MachineInt or long as fn arg type for indices
The design principle is that indices should be of type @long@; note that this *includes* _size specifications_ given ... John Abbott
16:31 CoCoALib Bug #89 (Feedback): MachineInt or long as fn arg type for indices
I have checked/modified all the following:
* matrix indices
* PPMonoid indet indices
* PolyRing indet indices
* @...
John Abbott
15:55 CoCoALib Feature #124 (Rejected): change long args in matrices into MachineInt (?)
I am rejecting this task since it is effectively covered by #89 which deals with indices in general; and it seems sim... John Abbott
15:11 CoCoALib Bug #349 (Feedback): IdealOfPoints: gens are actually a GBasis
done and tested. Anna Maria Bigatti

29 May 2013

19:16 CoCoA-5 Feature #362 (Closed): New function: IsZeroDivisor
Implement in as many cases as possible *IsZeroDivisor*
(see related issue for CoCoALib)
Anna Maria Bigatti
19:11 CoCoALib Feature #356 (Resolved): IsZeroDivisor
First implementation done, can be improved with "IsIntegralDomain3" Anna Maria Bigatti
17:11 CoCoALib Bug #349: IdealOfPoints: gens are actually a GBasis
John Abbott wrote:
> Anna could you help me with this? It should be quick and easy once you know what to do.
OK,...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:01 CoCoALib Bug #349: IdealOfPoints: gens are actually a GBasis
Anna could you help me with this? It should be quick and easy once you know what to do. John Abbott
17:05 CoCoALib Feature #150: RingOf rather than owner? (and than AmbientRing, ...)
This is neither urgent nor necessary for CoCoA School, so I'm postponing it. John Abbott
17:04 CoCoALib Feature #147: Buchberger-Moeller: impl via modular reduction
No chance of finishing this in time for CoCoALib-0.9953/CoCoA School 2013.
John Abbott
17:02 CoCoALib Feature #145: Buchberger-Moeller: fast modular impl
No hope of finishing this in time for 0.9953/CoCoA School 2013.
John Abbott
16:58 CoCoALib Feature #121 (Closed): Porting "IdealOfPoints"
JAA has effected the "transplant". All the code should become totally obsolete when the proper new impl has been mad... John Abbott
16:54 CoCoALib Feature #144 (Closed): Buchberger-Moeller: generic impl
This has been in feedback for 2 months without problems (and it has been used).
It may well become largely obsolet...
John Abbott
16:51 CoCoALib Feature #143: Buchberger-Moeller (parent task)
The stopgap impls will have to suffice for 0.9953/CoCoA School as there's no chance of completing a proper impl in ti... John Abbott
16:48 CoCoALib Support #140 (Closed): Doc & example for convert
No troubles after 2 months in "feedback", so closing.
I have improved the doc slightly (added a couple of missing co...
John Abbott
16:41 CoCoALib Feature #354 (Closed): New function BinRepr (was BinExp, also known as Macaulay representation)
I'm closing this even though strictly speaking there are no tests for @BinomialRepr@.
John Abbott
16:32 CoCoALib Feature #219: myDeriv for RingDenseUPolyClean still missing
To *Anna:* I think this can be closed. There are tests.
However doc is rather thin; also there is no clear distincti...
John Abbott
14:55 CoCoALib Feature #361 (Closed): implement IsPrime3, IsMaximal3
We should implement functions like *IsPrime3* which returns true3/false3 if it easy to calculate, or already calculat... Anna Maria Bigatti
12:22 CoCoALib Feature #72 (In Progress): MatByRows, MatByCols
JAA now thinks it is better to offer both @MatByRows@ and @MatByCols@ so that user code is more readable (& expresses... John Abbott
12:12 CoCoA-5 Design #83: C++11 compatibility questions
C++11 offers some convenient ways of creating a @std::vector@ containing explicitly given elements. Right now I do n... John Abbott
11:36 CoCoALib Bug #119 (Closed): CoCoA4io
Since this change entailed just moving some files (& some minor changes to a @Makefile@ here and there), I am letting... John Abbott

28 May 2013

18:57 CoCoALib Design #339 (Closed): DenseUPolyClean uses size_t
In general mem fns will have args f type *@long@* (rather than @MachineInt@) because assume that only "experts" call ... John Abbott
18:41 CoCoALib Feature #340 (Closed): "configure" does not set BOOST if there are multiple copies in "standard" location
Forgot to update status & %done. OK now.
John Abbott
18:31 CoCoALib Feature #340: "configure" does not set BOOST if there are multiple copies in "standard" location
No complaints in the last month (but then again Bruno has left...).
It should all be sorted out now, so I'm closing ...
John Abbott
18:30 CoCoALib Bug #355 (Feedback): Colon of zero ideal fails (zero-divisors)
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:16 CoCoALib Feature #269 (Closed): PPMonoids: check for exponent overflow in power function
This issue has been in feedback for about 2 months; no problems have surfaced, so I'm closing the issue. John Abbott
18:11 CoCoALib Feature #278 (Closed): add CoeffVecWRT to cocoalib
Added doc, an example and a simple test.
Closing this issue.
John Abbott
08:59 CoCoALib Feature #304: Module ordering and grading (and shifts)
fixed bug on shifts
added test
CVS'ed
Anna Maria Bigatti

27 May 2013

18:19 CoCoALib Feature #51 (Closed): polynomial coefficient extraction w.r.t. variable
This issue has been in "feedback" for 4 months, and no problems has arisen. So I'm closing it.
John Abbott
18:16 CoCoALib Feature #50 (Closed): Polynomial content
The main issue has been satisfactorily resolved for a year or so.
The question about "normalization" (in post 3) i...
John Abbott
14:46 CoCoALib Design #360 (New): CoCoAServer: what future, what issues?
What do we want to do with the @CoCoAServer@ in the future? It has been "dormant" for a long time!
*We gather her...
John Abbott
14:22 CoCoALib Bug #135 (Closed): Revise interface to SmallFpImpl & friends
Conducted final check ==> some "cosmetic changes".
Added an example program @ex-SmallFp1.C@
Closing this issue.
John Abbott
09:40 CoCoA-5 Feature #359 (Closed): RingOf for list
It is often useful to know whether all elements in a list belong to the same ring.
A function of this kind was *Ring...
Anna Maria Bigatti
 

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