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01 Jul 2015

18:40 CoCoALib Feature #520 (Closed): Compute inverse in quotient ring (i.e. division in algebraic extn)
No problems arisen in the last month (perhaps not much real testing either?)
Anyway, closing.
John Abbott
18:38 CoCoALib Support #739 (Closed): Move code in examples into namespace CoCoA
JAA checked, fixed a few oversights. Otherwise seems fine now. Closing.
John Abbott
18:12 CoCoALib Feature #721 (Closed): CheckForInterrupt: string arg to specify where it was called?
After a brief testing period, the mechanism works (but the C5 interpreter needs to be improved so that a helpful mess... John Abbott
18:11 CoCoA-5 Feature #744 (Closed): Handle interrupts more helpfully
Currently the C5 interpreter catches @CoCoA::InterruptReceived@ as it should, but it gives no message to the user. A... John Abbott
18:04 CoCoALib Feature #689 (Closed): Fault tolerant rational reconstruction: make bad factor publicly accessible
John Abbott
15:26 CoCoA-5 Slug #741: C5 GUI: slow to close
In file @C5.C:1000@ there is a function @MainWindow::closeEvent@
JAA thinks that this is probably the function ne...
John Abbott

30 Jun 2015

16:20 CoCoALib Feature #743 (In Progress): Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
When CoCoALib produces an error which is then caught by CoCoA-5, the only information from the error which is shown t... John Abbott
15:57 CoCoA-5 Feature #78: Elim ordering and matrix ordering in CoCoA-5
Probably we can implement this:... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:44 CoCoA-5 Slug #741: C5 GUI: slow to close
Found this @C5.C:931@... John Abbott
15:25 CoCoA-5 Slug #741 (In Progress): C5 GUI: slow to close
Closing is practically instant if I do first a "Clear output window" and then close the C5 GUI. This suggests that c... John Abbott
15:18 CoCoA-5 Slug #741: C5 GUI: slow to close
The GUI is slow to close also after simply computing and printing @(x+y+z+1)^99@.
JAA think that this confirms tha...
John Abbott
15:20 CoCoA-5 Feature #732 (Closed): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5: port Luis Garcia's package(cocoa-4)
syntax now aligned with Elisa Palezzato's code Anna Maria Bigatti
15:10 CoCoA-5 Feature #359 (Closed): RingOf for list
all done Anna Maria Bigatti
14:47 CoCoA-5 Feature #359 (Feedback): RingOf for list
OK for "RingsOf". Changing manual and making "RingSet" obsolscent Anna Maria Bigatti
15:07 CoCoALib Bug #631 (Closed): Ambiguous: rank for matrix (in ex-matrix1.C)
We use the name *@rk@* for the main function, but allow @Rank@ as a component of a compound name (to increase readabi... John Abbott
14:19 CoCoA-5 Feature #622 (Closed): New function: RandomSubset
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:58 CoCoALib Feature #721: CheckForInterrupt: string arg to specify where it was called?
Doesn't seem to be enough to give a suitable error message to cocoa5.
(interrupt code is in @TmpGReductor.C@ and tes...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:34 CoCoA-5 Feature #485 (Closed): Initialization for CoCoA-5: file init.cocoa5
No news on this topic for a long time: I guess that's good enough! ;-) Anna Maria Bigatti
11:30 CoCoA-5 Feature #733 (In Progress): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5.1.2: zero dimensional, finite characteristic
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:29 CoCoA-5 Feature #733: Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5.1.2: zero dimensional, finite characteristic
Added the package in the distribution. Still missing: documentation, proper handling for big prime characteristic (a... Anna Maria Bigatti
11:27 CoCoA-5 Feature #719 (Feedback): Readline: consider creating a textual interpreter with readline
Tried: it works fine for me. Close? Anna Maria Bigatti
10:55 CoCoALib Support #618: Instructions for compiling libnormaliz
Normaliz is making a new release and we will refine the configuration in September (in Aarhus) Anna Maria Bigatti
10:53 CoCoALib Support #739 (Feedback): Move code in examples into namespace CoCoA
I believe it is all done: there was a problem using @program()@ instead of @CoCoA::program()@ with John compiler, it... Anna Maria Bigatti

29 Jun 2015

17:23 CoCoALib Feature #658 (In Progress): Indets actually in a poly (or vector or matrix)
Anna suggests the result could be a @DynamicBitset@; these appear to be like @vector<bool>@ but also support bitwise ... John Abbott
16:44 CoCoALib Feature #91: Return type & name for "indets" of a PP
JAA observes that we already have some vaguely similar functions:
* @radical(PP)@ same as @gcd(PP,product(all_indet...
John Abbott
15:42 CoCoALib Slug #742 (In Progress): View PP exponent vector (and order vector?) as an array of long?
On my 32-bit linux virtual machine I observe the following:
* with @int@ and @long@ all loops take about 3.0s (NB @i...
John Abbott
15:36 CoCoALib Feature #689 (Feedback): Fault tolerant rational reconstruction: make bad factor publicly accessible
Implemented. Documented. Not really tested :-(
Status --> feedback.
John Abbott
14:01 CoCoA-5 Design #490: Duplicate fns: valuation and FactorMultiplicity
The implementations appear to allow the factor (whose multiplicity is to be computed) to be composite. If the factor... John Abbott
07:52 CoCoA-5 Design #490: Duplicate fns: valuation and FactorMultiplicity
I like it as it is:... Anna Maria Bigatti
13:02 CoCoALib Slug #679 (Closed): power for PPs is too slow
Apparently everything was already checked in... So I'm considering that ad hoc in-house testing has already happened... John Abbott

28 Jun 2015

21:29 CoCoA-5 Design #490: Duplicate fns: valuation and FactorMultiplicity
Just to make life more entertaining...
* @FactorMultiplicity@ is defined in @GCDFreeBasis.cpkg5@, and does not requi...
John Abbott
21:06 CoCoA-5 Design #490 (In Progress): Duplicate fns: valuation and FactorMultiplicity
After looking on Wikipedia, it seems that *valuation* is a fairly advanced concept with several different (but relate... John Abbott
21:00 CoCoA-5 Support #654 (Closed): Rename adjoint to adjugate???
John Abbott
20:43 CoCoALib Slug #742: View PP exponent vector (and order vector?) as an array of long?
I get some strange timings on my computer (MacOSX-10.5.8, old compiler).... John Abbott
20:35 CoCoALib Slug #742: View PP exponent vector (and order vector?) as an array of long?
Here is a simplistic test program I have written. It should let you test whether any speed gain is likely if you vie... John Abbott
20:31 CoCoALib Slug #742: View PP exponent vector (and order vector?) as an array of long?
JAA believes that we are already using this trick for order vectors (managed by @OrdvArith@).
Is it worth doing th...
John Abbott
20:28 CoCoALib Slug #742 (In Progress): View PP exponent vector (and order vector?) as an array of long?
Current implementations for exponent vectors (in PPMonoid elements) treat them as arrays of @SmallExponent_t@.
It ...
John Abbott
19:34 CoCoALib Slug #679: power for PPs is too slow
Apparently I have already done almost everything (but still have to check in).
I was surprised to see that we do not...
John Abbott
18:49 CoCoA-5 Feature #719: Readline: consider creating a textual interpreter with readline
I have added a new command flag *@--no-readline@*; it seems to work as desired.
I have also modified @cocoa5.el@ s...
John Abbott
16:38 CoCoALib Feature #82: C++11 compatibility questions
It seems that a few things noted in issue #83 should actually be in this issue.
Apparently C++11 has a way of find...
John Abbott

26 Jun 2015

17:55 CoCoA-5 Bug #345 (Closed): Interpreter interrupt delayed confusingly
moving the line seems to have solved the problem of "pending interrupt".
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:31 CoCoA-5 Bug #345: Interpreter interrupt delayed confusingly
John Abbott wrote:
> I have found this line at @Interpreter.C:2740@
> [...]
>
> It appears to be executed only ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:01 CoCoA-5 Bug #345: Interpreter interrupt delayed confusingly
I have found this line at @Interpreter.C:2740@... John Abbott
08:23 CoCoA-5 Bug #345: Interpreter interrupt delayed confusingly
Is this a possible solution?
The interpreter checks //before starting a computation// for (un-caught) interruption a...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:10 CoCoALib Feature #385: Design new errors using inheritance
JAA has now implemented a simple superclass @CoCoA::exception@ from which all exceptions which CocoALib could throw m... John Abbott
17:03 CoCoALib Feature #721 (Feedback): CheckForInterrupt: string arg to specify where it was called?
Code has been updated, tested, documented (with simple example). Checked in.
Changing status to @feedback@.
John Abbott
16:58 CoCoALib Design #641 (Closed): Clean test-FreeModule1
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:24 CoCoA-5 Feature #590 (Closed): package for subalgebras
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:15 CoCoALib Bug #705 (Closed): DetDirect calls myAddMul with 0 argument -- funny compilation problem??
No problems encountered after 1 month in feedback. Closing.
John Abbott
16:14 CoCoALib Feature #714 (Closed): Interrupt mechanism
Tested on my computer: pending interrupt and caught interrupt, they both work! Closing Anna Maria Bigatti
14:56 CoCoALib Feature #714 (Feedback): Interrupt mechanism
I've been using the current code for a little while (not really proper testing), and no problems have come up. So ch... John Abbott
15:10 CoCoA-5 Slug #741: C5 GUI: slow to close
The window closes quickly if you do not first compute (and print) @Fact(100000)@.
Needs more investigation to discov...
John Abbott
15:09 CoCoA-5 Slug #741 (Closed): C5 GUI: slow to close
The C5 GUI can be VERY slow to close (while making intensive use of the processor) in some circumstances.
Here is ...
John Abbott
12:16 CoCoA-5 Design #668 (Feedback): Remove keyword "weights"?
seems effectively done: close this issue? Anna Maria Bigatti
12:13 CoCoA-5 Bug #643 (Closed): GenRepr fails if there are zero generators
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:00 CoCoA-5 Feature #78: Elim ordering and matrix ordering in CoCoA-5
One problem is how to make it easy to use an elimination ordering.
Currently one has to write:...
Anna Maria Bigatti

25 Jun 2015

18:40 CoCoALib Support #739: Move code in examples into namespace CoCoA
JAA has done @ex-[A-D]@
JAA has done @ex-[E-M]@
John Abbott
15:32 CoCoALib Support #739 (Closed): Move code in examples into namespace CoCoA
Following the change made to test files; move all code (except @main@) into @namespace CoCoA@.
This should keep th...
John Abbott
18:12 CoCoALib Design #619 (Closed): Modulus (for CRTMill) ambiguous
Added example and test (actually they are the same).
Checked in. Closing!
John Abbott
17:27 CoCoALib Feature #721: CheckForInterrupt: string arg to specify where it was called?
I have checked in the current version (whose ctor requires a string). Waiting for Anna to check it.
At the moment...
John Abbott
17:23 CoCoALib Feature #738: Extend homomorphism to polynomial ring
Anna, John and Renzo agree that cases (1) and (2) in comment 1 are OK, and that the others are best handled by constr... John Abbott
15:48 CoCoALib Feature #738: Extend homomorphism to polynomial ring
Here is the original situation where the problem arose. I Have some polynomials with complex coeffs (in @QQ[i]@) and... John Abbott
15:28 CoCoALib Feature #738 (In Progress): Extend homomorphism to polynomial ring
I don't like automatic choices: look at these examples... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:48 CoCoALib Feature #738: Extend homomorphism to polynomial ring
What precisely are the semantics? When can the function be called?
Various cases to consider:
# given @phi: R --> R@...
John Abbott
14:41 CoCoALib Feature #738 (In Progress): Extend homomorphism to polynomial ring
It might be nice to have a simple/convenient/compact way of extending "coefficient homomorphisms" to polynomial rings... John Abbott
17:15 CoCoALib Design #642 (Closed): Move code in test file into namespace CoCoA
No problems encountered over the last month -- closing!
John Abbott
16:24 CoCoALib Feature #740: Addition of sparse (multivariate) polynomials
I computed @(1+x+y+z)^99@ using CoCoA and Singular on my machine. CoCoA took about 8s, singular took about 5s :-( John Abbott
16:23 CoCoALib Feature #740 (New): Addition of sparse (multivariate) polynomials
Singular computes the length of the sum of two polynomials as part of the main result. We should do something simila... John Abbott
15:34 CoCoALib Bug #736 (Resolved): QuotientRing: is it correct to prohibit quotient by ideal(1)?
done: added IsOne(IDEAL) Anna Maria Bigatti
14:30 CoCoALib Bug #736 (In Progress): QuotientRing: is it correct to prohibit quotient by ideal(1)?
John Abbott wrote:
> * @if 1 isin I then ....@
> * @if IsOne(I) then ....@
the first already works. The second ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:52 CoCoALib Bug #736: QuotientRing: is it correct to prohibit quotient by ideal(1)?
Robbiano confirms that it is best to avoid the null ring (which has surprising properties such as @1 = 0@).
In thi...
John Abbott
15:27 CoCoALib Bug #631: Ambiguous: rank for matrix (in ex-matrix1.C)
JAA notes that now we're planning to move all test/example code into @namespace CoCoA@ the problem of ambiguity (in n... John Abbott
15:16 CoCoALib Bug #666 (Closed): RatReconstructByLattice fails in some simple cases
Modified C5 doc too.
John Abbott

21 Jun 2015

21:15 CoCoA-5 Feature #737: Elementary transcendental functions (sin, cos, tan, log, exp)
JAA thinks it could occasionally be handy to have such functions available from inside CoCoA-5.
Martin gave little...
John Abbott
21:12 CoCoA-5 Feature #737 (In Progress): Elementary transcendental functions (sin, cos, tan, log, exp)
Martin Kreuzer says one of his students produced a C4 package for computing approximate values of transcendental func... John Abbott
21:09 CoCoALib Bug #736: QuotientRing: is it correct to prohibit quotient by ideal(1)?
The problem arose while doing some computations for Ulrich where it was known/expected that some ideals would be @ide... John Abbott
21:06 CoCoALib Bug #736 (Closed): QuotientRing: is it correct to prohibit quotient by ideal(1)?
The quotient ring @R/I@ where @I=ideal(1)@ gives the trivial ring.
Currently the quotienting operation gives a spe...
John Abbott

16 Jun 2015

08:25 CoCoALib Feature #665: Integrate Janet/Pommaret basis code
At the moment the UIBC uses only the standard algorithm to compute a Janet basis @TQBlockLow@. But it should be possi... Mario Albert

12 Jun 2015

12:03 CoCoALib Feature #664: Impl small non-prime finite fields (using logs)
Now I have a (partly?) working CoCoALib ring which wraps my previous code.
John Abbott

11 Jun 2015

20:06 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
As I am sitting in a delayed train with too much time at hand, some further comments:
1.) The "book" by Levandovsk...
Werner M Seiler
15:27 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
Going to a seminar here about G-bases in PBW algebras :-)
*NOTE* the seminar was OK. The student pointed out that (...
John Abbott
11:43 CoCoALib Feature #728 (In Progress): Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
Yes, we should get the old @RingWeyl@ code working again -- my guess is that there is little to do.
We should find...
John Abbott
11:30 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
We have already done most of these considerations for RingWeyl (except for the coefficient rule).
.. and we also had...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:14 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
Werner pointed out that a simplistic implementation is likely to be terribly slow (though perhaps "obviously correct"... John Abbott
19:00 CoCoALib Feature #735 (Resolved): Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
done, checked in.
So far I modified only the files in AlgebraicCore
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:46 CoCoALib Feature #735: Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
OK, do it! Including @monomial(P,expv)@.
Don't forget documentation, examples and tests!
John Abbott
11:24 CoCoALib Feature #735: Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
My preference (by far) goes to @monomial(P, pp)@
I have already implemented and all tests pass.
Should I also do @m...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:04 CoCoALib Feature #735: Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
I point out that assignment to @RingElem@ can perform some type changes. Should we allow assignment to a @RingElem@ ... John Abbott
11:00 CoCoALib Feature #735: Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
I do agree that, without familiarity with the function, upon reading @monomial(P,1,pp)@ my first thought would be "Wh... John Abbott
10:46 CoCoALib Feature #735: Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
I didn't know that @monomial(P, 1, pp)@ works as expected.
But I think for the _normal_ user who wants to use a @PP...
Mario Albert
10:41 CoCoALib Feature #735: Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
I am a little uncertain about the proposal. @monomial(P,pp)@ gains little over @monomial(P,1,pp)@.
Is it worth cr...
John Abbott
08:56 CoCoALib Feature #735: Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
Should we do the same for @monomial(P, expv)@?
I cannot see any ambiguity.
*REPLY* (JAA) if we have @monomial(P,PP)@...
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:41 CoCoALib Feature #735 (In Progress): Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
That seems very reasonable: I had a look at the code and, indeed, most of the times @monomial@ is called the coeffici... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:31 CoCoALib Feature #735 (Closed): Convert a PPMonoidElem to RingElem with coefficient one
Let @pp@ be a @PPMonoidElem@ of the @PPMonoid@ @PPM@. Let @P@ be a @SparsePolyRing@ with @PPM@ as @PPMonoid@.
Severa...
Mario Albert
15:26 CoCoALib Feature #664 (In Progress): Impl small non-prime finite fields (using logs)
JAA has implemented a first prototype (following the model @RingFpImpl@ and @SmallFpImpl@). The computational part u... John Abbott
14:58 CoCoALib Feature #386: add resolution data type
Hans says that singular uses more or less the design we are considering; apparently in some cases they store two reso... John Abbott
11:57 CoCoALib Feature #386: add resolution data type
One possibility might be to have a "module view" much like @MatrixView@, but I'm far from certain whether such a thin... John Abbott
11:43 CoCoALib Feature #386: add resolution data type
> Since the C++ types of the input are different it seems simplest to have different classes for each case. Each cla... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:28 CoCoA-5 Feature #732 (Feedback): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5: port Luis Garcia's package(cocoa-4)
mostly done (with some more cleaning and testing to do) Anna Maria Bigatti
08:25 CoCoA-5 Feature #732 (Closed): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5: port Luis Garcia's package(cocoa-4)
Luis Garcia wrote a package for CoCoA-4. Port it to CoCoA-5. Anna Maria Bigatti
08:27 CoCoA-5 Feature #734 (Closed): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5: zero dimensional, zero characteristic
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:26 CoCoA-5 Feature #733 (Closed): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5.1.2: zero dimensional, finite characteristic
First prototype Anna Maria Bigatti
08:24 CoCoALib Feature #665: Integrate Janet/Pommaret basis code
In the following I try to explain how I integrated the JBMill/PBMill into @SparsePolyRing::IdealImpl@:
h3. UIBC
...
Mario Albert
08:23 CoCoA-5 Feature #731 (In Progress): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5
Implement Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5 Anna Maria Bigatti

10 Jun 2015

17:12 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
For starters Ore algebra as a simple case of polynomial algebras of solvable type should be enough. Their main advant... Werner M Seiler
12:55 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
I made a slight mistake in the original description. It should have been:
* @x[i]*x[j] = q*x[j]*x[i] + tail@ where @...
John Abbott
14:24 CoCoALib Slug #725: Example database: Slow ideal equality test
John Abbott wrote:
> In the specific example of this issue there are 36 indets (all used), 15 polynomials, and @dim(...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:22 CoCoA-5 Bug #148: C-c C-p in emacs goes to wrong line
> *REPLY (JAA)* I think what confused me was that in the CoCoA-5 output window the cursor was at the end of the outpu... Anna Maria Bigatti
13:41 CoCoALib Feature #386 (In Progress): add resolution data type
Mario and I have discussed some possible designs; neither of us has much experience with resolutions, so it is possib... John Abbott
13:19 CoCoALib Feature #729 (In Progress): Betti numbers, betti diagram
Mario suggested that the internal representation should be @vector< map<degree, long> >@.
The resolution is a list...
John Abbott
11:30 CoCoALib Feature #730: Stats in GBMill (GReductor)
I suppose Mario ought to write about this. He has followed my design suggestion, and seems to be happy with it. If ... John Abbott
11:24 CoCoALib Feature #730: Stats in GBMill (GReductor)
Mario asked about gathering stats for his involutive basis code.
I suggested using a @struct@ to keep all the stats ...
John Abbott
11:18 CoCoALib Feature #730 (Closed): Stats in GBMill (GReductor)
There is already some implementation for gathering stats in G-basis computation.
Review it!
Perhaps separate st...
John Abbott

08 Jun 2015

22:27 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
Sounds like a generalisation of RingWeyl.
... Werner, are you willing to test it out? ;-)
I was thinking of porti...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:45 CoCoALib Feature #728 (In Progress): Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"
Werner asked about the possibility of having non-commutative algebras of solvable type. They are nice enough that Bu... John Abbott
18:52 CoCoALib Feature #729: Betti numbers, betti diagram
Mario points out that for a non-graded case we will also need a datastructure.
*UPDATE* (20150608) Mario thinks it is...
John Abbott
18:50 CoCoALib Feature #729 (In Progress): Betti numbers, betti diagram
Design a good data structure for storing Betti numbers (also for multigraded case).
John Abbott
11:46 CoCoA-5 Bug #148: C-c C-p in emacs goes to wrong line
John Abbott wrote:
> I recently tried using @C-c C-p@ and found it unhelpful; so I "stupidly" tried it a second time,...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:09 CoCoALib Feature #718: Insert calls to CheckForInterrupt
Mario asked about the possible run-time cost of calling @CheckForInterrupt@.
Currently it may be needlessly expensiv...
John Abbott

07 Jun 2015

12:46 CoCoALib Slug #725: Example database: Slow ideal equality test
In the specific example of this issue there are 36 indets (all used), 15 polynomials, and @dim(P/I)@ gives 21. Isn't... John Abbott

06 Jun 2015

23:04 CoCoA-5 Bug #148: C-c C-p in emacs goes to wrong line
I recently tried using @C-c C-p@ and found it unhelpful; so I "stupidly" tried it a second time, and found that it wa... John Abbott
22:58 CoCoA-5 Bug #727 (In Progress): Emacs UI: send-file (C-c C-f) should check if buffer and file are synchronized
The emacs command @C-c C-f@ send a @source@ command to CoCoA-5, so CoCoA-5 reads the file on disk which may not be th... John Abbott
22:49 CoCoALib Slug #725: Example database: Slow ideal equality test
For completeness here is the list of generators in @QQ[x[1..6,1..6]]@ ... John Abbott
22:46 CoCoALib Slug #725: Example database: Slow ideal equality test
Anna, you are right (in principle). In practice, I think almost the whole time is spent computing a G-basis (rather ... John Abbott
21:17 CoCoALib Slug #725: Example database: Slow ideal equality test
Instead of checking equality you should just check whether g_j is in the ideal generated by the others. However, thi... Anna Maria Bigatti
20:32 CoCoALib Slug #725: Example database: Slow ideal equality test
It has finally finished:... John Abbott
14:25 CoCoALib Slug #725: Example database: Slow ideal equality test
Progress...... John Abbott
13:19 CoCoALib Slug #725: Example database: Slow ideal equality test
Re-running the program (over @QQ@) I get the following output (still incomplete):... John Abbott
13:14 CoCoALib Slug #725 (New): Example database: Slow ideal equality test
This is probably not important, but I wanted to record this example which seems to be unexpectedly slow -- it might b... John Abbott
22:39 CoCoA-5 Bug #726: TopLevel cannot "import" a package variable
I think a "global variable" is a reasonable design for this task.
There is a "philosophical" question: is a qualif...
John Abbott
22:34 CoCoA-5 Bug #726 (Closed): TopLevel cannot "import" a package variable
I would like to have a user controllable "verbosity level" in a package. How should this be done?
I had thought o...
John Abbott

02 Jun 2015

22:43 CoCoA-5 Bug #724 (In Progress): RationalSolve: wrongly complains about non zero-dim even in finite char
It is not quite as easy as I had hoped. Every so often zero polynomials pop up in awkward places (_e.g._ to be facto... John Abbott
17:06 CoCoA-5 Bug #724: RationalSolve: wrongly complains about non zero-dim even in finite char
I have disabled the zero-dimensionality check if the coeff ring is a finite field.
In one simple test that seems t...
John Abbott
15:55 CoCoA-5 Bug #724: RationalSolve: wrongly complains about non zero-dim even in finite char
Is it just enough to skip the check for zero-dimensionality in this case?
(if so, that's a really simple fix)
John Abbott
15:53 CoCoA-5 Bug #724 (Closed): RationalSolve: wrongly complains about non zero-dim even in finite char
I ran the example given in issue #723 which tries to compute all rational solutions over a finite field of a homogene... John Abbott
16:35 CoCoA-5 Feature #723: Referring to indets with multiple indices from a polyring
Yes and no. I thought the topic had come up recently, but did not find it on redmine.
Perhaps the manual page for @...
John Abbott
16:18 CoCoA-5 Feature #723: Referring to indets with multiple indices from a polyring
Is this what you want? (From the manual ;-)... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:45 CoCoA-5 Feature #723: Referring to indets with multiple indices from a polyring
The existing function @indets("s")@ almost does what I want except that the result is a list rather than an @INTMAP@.... John Abbott
15:39 CoCoA-5 Feature #723: Referring to indets with multiple indices from a polyring
Here is an example I want to run (NB it is very slow)... John Abbott
15:35 CoCoA-5 Feature #723 (New): Referring to indets with multiple indices from a polyring
I would like to be able to refer to multi-index indets in a poly ring using their multiple indices... where the ring ... John Abbott
13:19 CoCoA-5 Feature #719: Readline: consider creating a textual interpreter with readline
A commandline option to disable readline is probably a good idea. It is the most flexible.
You can then also add some...
Christof Soeger
13:11 CoCoA-5 Feature #719: Readline: consider creating a textual interpreter with readline
I have just read some documentation for @readline@ and also looked online. We're not the first people to have proble... John Abbott
12:45 CoCoA-5 Feature #719: Readline: consider creating a textual interpreter with readline
Clearly, I was too hasty with my hack to add @readline@ :-(
I know @READLINE@ appears twice at the start -- don't ...
John Abbott
12:05 CoCoA-5 Feature #719: Readline: consider creating a textual interpreter with readline
And it also works fine for me. Is it also possible to include a tab-completion? :)
Only problem is that the tests of...
Christof Soeger
11:27 CoCoA-5 Feature #719: Readline: consider creating a textual interpreter with readline
My first try was not successfull. Durign the configure I got... Christof Soeger
 

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