CoCoA

11 Jul 2015

22:31 CoCoALib Feature #142: Improve threadsafety

I wonder whether the default configuration for CoCoALib should be the threadsafe one (which incurs a run-time efficie... John Abbott

09 Jul 2015

13:14 CoCoALib Bug #746: Problem with GBasis in tower of alg extns

Here is a transcript of what happened...... John Abbott

13:13 CoCoALib Bug #746 (New): Problem with GBasis in tower of alg extns

I tried computing a GBasis in a ring with structure like @QQ(alpha)(beta)[x]@ where @alpha@ and @beta@ are algebraic.... John Abbott

13:07 CoCoA-5 Bug #745 (Closed): Readline: avoid printing out READLINE twice

When C5 starts it prints out a list of ext libs being used; @READLINE@ appears twice. John Abbott

08:39 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"

No. In my understanding, John correctly described in #2 also Ore algebras (taking into account the note he later adde... Werner M Seiler

06 Jul 2015

07:43 CoCoA-5 Feature #336: Mat(Module) should give error

(brought at 100% after 2 years of being closed) Anna Maria Bigatti

07:14 CoCoALib Feature #728: Noncommutative algebra "of solvable type"

If I understood well (I asked Viktor Levandovskyy ;-) the definition in #2 is actually of G-Algebras, and Ore-Algebra... Anna Maria Bigatti

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