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From 03 May 2017 to 01 Jun 2017
23 May 2017
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11:32 CoCoALib Slug #1049: GroebnerFan: slow examples
- Having 4 indets makes it easy to find "big" examples:...
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08:46 CoCoA-5 Design #1075: LaTeX package: power-product printing
- I would define @space@ to the empty string if @[1] = MakeSet([ len(IndetName(X)) | X in indets(R) ]);@
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Does your test of @saturate@ in @anna.cocoa5@ compute a saturation with twin-float coeffs??
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22 May 2017
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- Since CoCoA-5 allows indets with long names, I wanted to revise @LaTeX.cpkg5@ so that the product @x*y@ looks differe...
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- I have just checked in a revised version of the LaTeX package:
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- The following output is surprising (though correct)...
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- The CoCoAManual entry for @radical@ looks to be out of date.
It does not mention @radical(RINGELEM)@ and also stat... -
- Does your test of @saturate@ in @anna.cocoa5@ compute a saturation with twin-float coeffs??
I think you might want t... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> A simple, backward-compatible solution would be to allow @Relnotes@ to accept 0 or 1 args. Wit... -
- A simple, backward-compatible solution would be to allow @Relnotes@ to accept 0 or 1 args. With 0 args it prints out...
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- Currently @RelNotes()@ prints out the release notes for all previous versions of CoCoA-5.
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- John Abbott wrote:
> I do not understand: "closed" but progress is 10%.
> Also your last comment suggests that ther... -
- I do not understand: "closed" but progress is 10%.
Also your last comment suggests that there is still some design i... -
- There is @myElim@. Maybe I meant making a _function_?
Easy, anyway.
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- While preparing an example of a simple ideal with a big "universal denominator" I encountered a number with about 330...
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- @LinKerBasis@ is the "sloppy" version of @LinKer@ (which only takes a MAT, returns a MAT).
We added LIST of linear...
19 May 2017
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- I just removed the coefficients to John's last example:...
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- Just to clarify: this means that one cannot create this ring, hmmmmm.......
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- Here is another "slightly smaller" matrix whose determinant is zero mod 32749:...
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- Here is another example which gives trouble:...
18 May 2017
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- Is it right that @syz@ should give error if one of the coords is zero?...
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- The man page still calls th fn @Syz@ with a capital @S@; it should be @syz@, shouldn't it?
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- The current solution is to do the following:...
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- Would it make sense to allow @syz@ to be applied to a @ModuleElem@?...
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- Should the manual page for @LinKerBasis@ also refer to the page for @syz@?
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- I am not sure what is happening here:...
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- The version that takes a list gives an unhelpful error when one component is zero:...
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- What is @LinKerBasis@ supposed to do when given a list?...
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- This is an unfriendly error message:...
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- The CoCoA-5 function @LinKerBasis@ produces unhelpful error messages, and too many of them!
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- Here are some order matrices with not-too-big entries whose det is a multiple of 32749:...
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- added tests. CVS-ed
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- Found it in @TmpGOperations.C@:
Saturation by @ideal(f)@ calls @factor(f)@ and wrongly assumes that the factor list ... -
- Bug (radical >0 dim) trapped by Elisa Palezzato...
17 May 2017
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- First problem found: @NewOrdvArith(ord)@ ic computed twice.
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Another approach would be to persuade GFan to produce matrices with smaller entries... this is ... -
- Another approach would be to persuade GFan to produce matrices with smaller entries... this is probably not so easy!
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- The correct solution would be to have a proper implementation of matrix orderings without any "tricks" (too bad if it...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Here is a guess as to what the problem is... for matrix orderings there was some "funny trick" ... -
- Here is a guess as to what the problem is... for matrix orderings there was some "funny trick" using a matrix reduced...
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- Another smaller example (but not as small as Anna's)...
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- Smaller example, but still too big...
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- The following causes an error:...
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- I just implemented a workaround:
I check det(M) before calling @RemoveRedundantRows@, if not 0 return M.
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- The function @RemoveRedundantRows@ is quite slow because of the repeated calls to @rk@.
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- Now I'm more inclined to keep @MakeTermOrd@ for CoCoA-5.
Possibly make a distinction in CoCoALib (where mat and ord ... -
- OK, Anna; take a look.
I'm a bit busy with other things right now.
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- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> It would be handy to get the OrdvArith from a PPMonoid (if possible).
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- It would be handy to get the OrdvArith from a PPMonoid (if possible).
This could also be used internally by the GBas... -
- We never considered that a slow ring constructor could be a problem, but may be.
In particular this bit of code:
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- I made a test: "bug-EvalTwice.cocoa5" where we can collect all cases we meet, solved or unsolved.
16 May 2017
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- Found it! (and fixed most of them)
The problem is when using the hand functions @EvalArgAsT1OrT2..<..>(ARG(0), whic... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> Why do you want to specify @lo@ and @hi@ for @RandomLinearForm@?
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- Why do you want to specify @lo@ and @hi@ for @RandomLinearForm@?
Is it not enough to specify a single value N and us... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> There is a commented out fn called @RandomLinearForm@ in @experimental.cpkg5@.
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- John Abbott wrote:
> But what about @BackwardCompatible.cpkg5@? How does it differ from @obsolescent.cpkg5@?
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- There is a commented out fn called @RandomLinearForm@ in @experimental.cpkg5@.
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- There is also an undocumented fn called *@Rand@* in @misc.cpkg5@.
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- The function *@ExternalLibs()@* does not work properly. It must be fixed using the new CoCoALib fn.
15 May 2017
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- OK, I'll do it and check in tomorrow -- too busy today.
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- ok, you convinced me: let's declare Randomize(d) obsolete, and make (in case) explicit functions for random things.
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- We could create: @RandomLinearForm(P,100)@ or even @RandomLinearForm(P)@ if coeff ring is finite field.
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- @L := DensePoly(P,1); randomized(L, -100,100);@ is a nice way to make lots of random linear forms.
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- I thought @Randomize@ in CoCoA-4 would work only for polynomials (and integers). Did it also work for matrices?
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- I sometimes miss old @Randomized@.
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- Here are two deg 5 binomial examples:...
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- Here are some binomial examples of deg 4:...
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- Changed the code so that ugly primes are detected cleanly from checking divisibility, instead of using try/catch. Ad...
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- I suggest as a first version of the man page just to put in a reference to the website; not ideal, but better than no...
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- Currently there is a web page (I've just improved it a bit).
http://cocoa.dima.unige.it/download/screenshots.shtml
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14 May 2017
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- I have implemented @reseed@, and written a manual page.
Not sure about making a test... I suppose I could make an ea... -
- The old CoCoA-4 function @Randomize(F)@ is essentially equivalent to:...
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- While looking through the CoCoA-5 on-line manual, I noticed that there are references to @Randomize@ and @Randomized@...
12 May 2017
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- cleaned up, looks good
http://cocoa.dima.unige.it/cocoalib/doc/CoCoATranslationTable.html
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- testing and sorting
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- Elisa Palezzato added the missing entries in the table (thanks!)
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- Originally the translation table was done because there was no cocoa-5 manual, and to show what we had ported from co...
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- The CoCoA-5 function *@random@* calls @random_forC5@ defined in @CoCoALibSupplement.C@.
Presumably @reseed@ can be d...
11 May 2017
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- Yes, the last example was deliberately strange; I do not think it matters if such a strange input works...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> I think my current preference is not to do anything "clever" with unusual chars: if the user ty... -
- Here are the special chars which I have noticed in the manual page headings (obtained by typing just *@?@*):
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- I am a bit uneasy about using the following paradigm more than absolutely necessary:...
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- Completed similar checks for implicit as well.
Cleaned up, added tests for implicit.
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- Added the error @ERR::CannotReconstruct@ and cleaned up the code accordingly (also for similar try/catch code in @Imp...
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- fixed, cvs-ed
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- I have some trouble writing a bit of code because I cannot redefine an ideal in another ring.
Should we allow that, ... -
- Just a trivial task (but may be annoying).
Currently in @error.H@ we comment an error name with its string: isn't th... -
- I managed to write my loop changing rings cleanly (modular computation).
While changing characteristic I forcily had... -
- This would be convenient, but also potentially dangerous:
In the case of @RingElem@ the empty constructor gives 0 ... -
- I have some trouble writing a bit of code because I cannot redefine an ideal in another ring (changing characteristic...
10 May 2017
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- The following fails for me:...
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- and add test!
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- https://cocoa.dima.unige.it/redmine/issues/1062#note-6
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- The (rare) error thrown by @apply@ for an ugly prime in MinPolyModular was not caught.
I fixed one, but look around ... -
- When this is fixed remember to add some new tests to @exbugs.cocoa5@!
09 May 2017
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- Found it (I had been confused by another unexpected error).
Easy: BTW I changed name to the error... -
- I had some trouble deciding *how* to catch an error:
I was expecting a possible problem in applying a partial hom, a... -
- Decide how to catch and expected error, for example a "Cannot reconstruct rational"
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- The two bugs (0-dim and non-0-dim) are quite distinct.
Debugging the zero-dimensional example in the description o... -
- Smaller example...
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- I'm not that surprised. Radical for non zero-dimensional ideals is not that robust.
I'm investigating
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- This example triggers SEGV:...
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- Aaargh!! Now I have a SEGV :-(...
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- This example has simpler coeffs:...
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- I have an example where @IsRadical@ produces an error (when applying a RingHom)
*0-dimensional bug: related with Min...
08 May 2017
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- Everything for the release
# Redmine Roadmap: close or postpone issue
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- Closing issue, cleaning up redmine
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- published manual on ResearchGate
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- updated list with undelivered emails
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- Sent email and notice on facebook page
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- published manual on ResearchGate
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- updated web page
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- I see now that this was not done for the release.
Postpone to next.
06 May 2017
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- Another failed attempt to test the windows emacs version on my virtual machine...
+ some clarification in windows in...
05 May 2017
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- Trying to test windows release.
From shell it works.
From emacs I don't know: I do not have enough privilegies on t... -
- Compiled on windows, improved script @release-win-fromMac.sh@.
Uploaded release for windows.
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- manual pdf and html uploaded
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- Maybe we could add the ring anyway when we do @indent(I)@
JAA simultaneously wrote the following:
Anna suggested ... -
- I am not (yet?) convinced that this is the right thing to do, partly because I think it could easily make it (even) h...
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- Printing out an ideal gives no indication of the ring: @ideal(...)@.
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- The problem can be exhibited by doing:...
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- In CoCoA-5, it might be nice if *@describe@* for a ring added a final newline.
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- Winfried Bruns wrote:
> I have thought about introducing three levels of verbosity: off, the most important steps, e... -
04 May 2017
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- pdf documentation has date, but no version number.
html and examples have no sign of either.
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- uploaded release, manual and examples
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- (The example is cvs-ed in the dir IdealsModp)
I had added a ludicrous number of (unused) indeterminates: the computa... -
- I have an example which shows that creating a SparsePolyRing with matrix ordering is slower than default ordering.
03 May 2017
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- released cocoa for linux
(asked testing)
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