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14 Dec 2017

16:26 CoCoA-5 Bug #1140 (Closed): ImplicitModular: too many bad primes
this is related with @implicit@: it should (by default) return the ideal in a ring with weights, so that the generato... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:54 CoCoA-5 Bug #1140: ImplicitModular: too many bad primes
The defn of *@IsPrecedingNoCheck@* looks suspicious to me (compared to the defn in the article).
But changing the de...
John Abbott
14:25 CoCoA-5 Bug #1140: ImplicitModular: too many bad primes
The critical prime appears to be 223.
If I start the calculation from p=223, it reports that all other primes are BA...
John Abbott
14:19 CoCoA-5 Bug #1140 (Closed): ImplicitModular: too many bad primes
In the example below @ImplicitModular@ decides that it has found a "better prime", but after that all primes seem to ... John Abbott
14:29 CoCoALib Feature #587: port to CoCoALib: Homomorphism pkg (ker, IsInjective, IsSurjective..)
@ker@ should use @implicit@, and @implicit@ should return (if not otherwise indicated) the answer in a ring with a co... Anna Maria Bigatti

13 Dec 2017

16:40 CoCoA-5 Feature #1073 (Feedback): RelNotes: current version or all previous versions?
Done.
Documented
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:28 CoCoA-5 Slug #798 (Closed): use poly ring with many variables is too slow
Presumably we've been using this code for a couple of years without any problems arising.
Indeed the solution is n...
John Abbott
14:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1000 (Feedback): CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"
added in the entry for "all cocoa command" the search keys for, foreach, if, then, ....
so, when looking for one of...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:23 CoCoA-5 Bug #1139 (Closed): Radical problems
Fixed: all the problem was in ideal(1).
(there is a naughty trick in @ElimRedundant(E)@)
Now @radical(I)@ exits @I@...
Anna Maria Bigatti

12 Dec 2017

19:32 CoCoA-5 Bug #1139: Radical problems
another... Anna Maria Bigatti
17:15 CoCoA-5 Bug #1139: Radical problems
Much like the example above:... John Abbott
16:58 CoCoA-5 Bug #1139: Radical problems
Here is another case where things go wrong:... John Abbott
15:06 CoCoA-5 Bug #1139: Radical problems
The problem seems to be when the ideal contains 1.... John Abbott
14:58 CoCoA-5 Bug #1139 (Closed): Radical problems
There are still problems with radical: sometimes it gives an empty list instead of an ideal.... John Abbott
15:36 CoCoA-5 Design #1137 (Closed): Latex: ideal
It seems OK to me. Closing.
I have improved the manual entry slightly.
John Abbott
11:01 CoCoA-5 Support #1023 (Closed): CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
John Abbott

11 Dec 2017

19:21 CoCoA-5 Design #1092 (Closed): Design issues for discussion in July 2017
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:00 CoCoA-5 Design #1092 (Rejected): Design issues for discussion in July 2017
We didn't take notes. Maybe we wrote things directly in the issues... or in the code.
Closing this.
Anna Maria Bigatti
19:19 CoCoA-5 Bug #1133 (Closed): Radical bug
Anna Maria Bigatti
19:19 CoCoA-5 Support #1074 (Feedback): CoCoAManual: entry for radical
added example for radical(poly).
I'm not confident it always works for ideals in small characteristic.
I hope the...
Anna Maria Bigatti
19:10 CoCoA-5 Support #1000: CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"
John Abbott wrote:
> Is it possible to make links/references from normal manual pages to/from the page about CoCoA c...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:47 CoCoA-5 Support #1023 (Feedback): CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
I suggest closing this now.
A refined solution is much more difficult and probably not that necessary.
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:14 CoCoA-5 Support #439 (Closed): CoCoA website: download pages and installing instructions
The pages have changed a lot, and the comments here are vague.
There are more specific issues now, so I close this.
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:07 CoCoA-5 Support #439 (Resolved): CoCoA website: download pages and installing instructions
I keep installing cocoa for our students. The instructions are actually simple and complete.
Maybe we could add scr...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:13 CoCoA-5 Support #985: Microsoft (Windows 10, maybe other versions): more help for installation
I keep installing cocoa for our students. The instructions are actually simple and complete.
Maybe we could add scre...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:11 CoCoA-5 Support #322: Installation instructions (on website)
Adding a comment from John:
Some points to clarify on the website:
what to download and do for a completely...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:03 CoCoA-5 Feature #1119: Mailing list for CoCoAUsers
more experiments, added logo in the google page. Anna Maria Bigatti
18:01 CoCoA-5 Design #1123 (Closed): Should "minimalize" be obsolescent?
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:58 CoCoA-5 Design #1091 (Closed): ExternaLib-MathSAT: (first) prototype CoCoA-5 interface for MathSAT
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:53 CoCoA-5 Bug #1100 (Closed): PrimaryDecomposition0: says not 0-dim but IsZeroDim says ideal is zero-dim!
added tests
closing
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:41 CoCoA-5 Bug #1080: intersect: problem with zero generators
added test in exbugs. Anna Maria Bigatti
17:11 CoCoA-5 Bug #1080 (Closed): intersect: problem with zero generators
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:10 CoCoA-5 Bug #1055 (Closed): CoCoAManual: duplication (2 pages for operators)
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:08 CoCoA-5 Bug #697 (Closed): Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:06 CoCoA-5 Design #1137 (Feedback): Latex: ideal
documentation done. Anna Maria Bigatti
16:40 CoCoA-5 Design #1137 (Closed): Latex: ideal
revised printing of ideals: now uses \ideal{gens} instead of old (gens)
Add macro definition in manual.
*2017-1...
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:55 CoCoA-5 Design #1075: LaTeX package: power-product printing
Made simpler in easy, common cases: when all the indets in the ring are single letters, then the indets in a power-pr... Anna Maria Bigatti
16:42 CoCoA-5 Design #1075 (In Progress): LaTeX package: power-product printing
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:45 CoCoA-5 Design #1138 (New): Latex: matrix
Should we use matrix instead of array? Anna Maria Bigatti

07 Dec 2017

17:42 CoCoALib Feature #587: port to CoCoALib: Homomorphism pkg (ker, IsInjective, IsSurjective..)
After doing some experiments we (Lorenzo Robbiano and I) are now convinced that it is always worth giving weights and... Anna Maria Bigatti

06 Dec 2017

13:43 CoCoALib Slug #1136 (In Progress): IsInRadical: sometimes a bit slow
With the original exponents (4,5) the timings I obtained are:
* @IsInRadical(f1,I)@ took 2.6s
* @IsInRadical(f2,I)...
John Abbott
13:33 CoCoALib Slug #1136 (Closed): IsInRadical: sometimes a bit slow
I noticed that @test-RadicalMembership1.C@ was rather slow, and wanted to make it faster.
It tests for membership ...
John Abbott

05 Dec 2017

16:07 CoCoALib Bug #1135: Compilaton with --debug configuration option gives errors
> Should the target version be 0.99560 or 0.99570?
if it's done, 60!
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:43 CoCoALib Bug #1135 (Resolved): Compilaton with --debug configuration option gives errors
In an earlier version of CoCoALib the preprocessor symbol *@CoCoA_DEBUG@* contained an integer value: 1 gave standard... John Abbott
15:34 CoCoALib Bug #1135 (Closed): Compilaton with --debug configuration option gives errors
Configuring CoCoALib with the option *@--debug@* produces errors when compiling the library, and then later when runn... John Abbott

04 Dec 2017

18:03 CoCoALib Support #1134: Organize better the documentation for CoCoALib
One big disadvantage of the CoCoALib documentation compared to the CoCoA-5 documentation is the lack of "searchabilit... John Abbott
17:58 CoCoALib Support #1134 (New): Organize better the documentation for CoCoALib
So far we have (mostly) followed the guideline of documentation files corresponding 1--1 to source files.
Devise a...
John Abbott
12:19 CoCoA-5 Bug #1055: CoCoAManual: duplication (2 pages for operators)
Now the "cocoa operators: introduction" is shorter (I commented out the part on priority, I'm not 100% sure...)
I a...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:20 CoCoA-5 Bug #697 (Feedback): Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
Anna Maria Bigatti

02 Dec 2017

10:05 CoCoA-5 Support #1061: Release: CoCoA-5.2.2
Some updates in the pages "dowload" (with link to google group) and "conferences" (with cocoa calendar) Anna Maria Bigatti

01 Dec 2017

17:26 CoCoA-5 Bug #1080 (Feedback): intersect: problem with zero generators
I added the function @EmbedPolyListNo0@ in @TmpGReductor.C@.
It does the same as @EmbedPolyList@ but skipping zero p...
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:22 CoCoA-5 Feature #1119: Mailing list for CoCoAUsers
Some more cleaning. Now list is clean and ready.
I have to find out how to invite others and to advertise the subsc...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:48 CoCoA-5 Design #1127: subalgebra package obsolete?
Mostly cleared: now it exports @SubalgebraHom@, and @SubalgebraRepr@ is obsolescent.
Exhaustive documentation shows...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:41 CoCoA-5 Design #1127 (In Progress): subalgebra package obsolete?
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:41 CoCoA-5 Design #1127: subalgebra package obsolete?
Indeed, we could just export @SubalgebraHom@ (pretty trivial function), and give some examples.
I'm a bit comfused t...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:04 CoCoA-5 Bug #1133 (Feedback): Radical bug
Found it.
In some point the GBasis is added to the gens list. Later the gens list is expected interreduced.
Fixed....
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:33 CoCoA-5 Bug #1133 (Closed): Radical bug
... Anna Maria Bigatti

30 Nov 2017

17:32 CoCoALib Feature #587: port to CoCoALib: Homomorphism pkg (ker, IsInjective, IsSurjective..)
Improve the code adding weights and homogenization...
should be trivial...
(I will do it)
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:04 CoCoALib Feature #1132: Canonical homomorphism for (some) polynomial rings?
JAA thinks that *@CanonicalHom@* should be fairly general, and not just a "single-step".
Perhaps the "single-step" v...
John Abbott
09:28 CoCoALib Feature #1132 (New): Canonical homomorphism for (some) polynomial rings?
It would be convenient to have an automatic homomorphism P1 -> P2 (differing only for ordering)
which effectively is...
Anna Maria Bigatti

29 Nov 2017

21:39 CoCoALib Feature #1131 (In Progress): Sturm sequence
I have checked in a first impl. It seems to work on a couple of simple tests.
The main problem is that it produce...
John Abbott
21:35 CoCoALib Feature #1131 (Closed): Sturm sequence
Added fn to compute a Sturm Seq, and to count the number of real roots (between two points?) John Abbott
16:13 CoCoALib Bug #1130 (In Progress): SqFreeFactor: should it work over ZZ?
this gives error (general code is for fields)... Anna Maria Bigatti

28 Nov 2017

18:06 CoCoA-5 Feature #1129: Generic Timeout for CoCoA-5?
The interface @SetTimeout@ and @UnsetTimeout@ is simple to understand. *BUT* it does imply use of a global variable ... John Abbott
16:05 CoCoA-5 Feature #1129: Generic Timeout for CoCoA-5?
John Abbott wrote:
> In CoCoALib I have used the RAII "design pattern": the dtor for a *@CpuTimeLimit@* object stops...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:22 CoCoA-5 Feature #1129 (In Progress): Generic Timeout for CoCoA-5?
In CoCoALib I have used the RAII "design pattern": the dtor for a *@CpuTimeLimit@* object stops the "time bomb".
So ...
John Abbott
15:17 CoCoA-5 Feature #1129 (In Progress): Generic Timeout for CoCoA-5?
CoCoALib has a generic "timeout" facility (via objects of type *@CpuTimeLimit@*).
Can something easy-to-use be por...
John Abbott
14:56 CoCoA-5 Bug #1032: IsInRadical: fragile code
My guess (I do not know the code) is that there is something optimized for monomial ideals...
Anyway, just looking...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:04 CoCoA-5 Bug #1032 (Resolved): IsInRadical: fragile code
Most of these problems have been resolved by porting the code to CoCoALib (thanks to Alice Moallemy, Marvin Brandenst... John Abbott

27 Nov 2017

09:15 CoCoALib Feature #1094: Revive code for SelfSaturating GBasis
Added interreduction (in CoCoA5 package) Anna Maria Bigatti

25 Nov 2017

10:42 CoCoALib Feature #361 (Closed): implement IsPrime3, IsMaximal3
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:38 CoCoALib Design #924: FlagManager for bool/bool3 flags
Suggested names for the functions modifying this:
@ComputeAndSetIsPrime3@, @ComputeAndSetIsMaximal3@, ...
Better ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:30 CoCoALib Design #924: FlagManager for bool/bool3 flags
For ideals John suggested:
#899#note-7
Anna:
#899#note-5
Anna Maria Bigatti

24 Nov 2017

17:21 CoCoALib Feature #1094: Revive code for SelfSaturating GBasis
Understood (probably) what the interface was meant to be.
Written test code, seems to work well :-)
Final interre...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:03 CoCoA-5 Design #1128 (Closed): HomomorphismFns.cpkg5 no longer needed?
The main functions from *@HomomorphismFns.cpkg5@* have been ported to CoCoALib, so the package appears no longer to s... John Abbott
17:00 CoCoA-5 Design #1127: subalgebra package obsolete?
If I have understood what the 2 exported fns from @subalgebra.cpkg5@ do, then they seems to be "obsolete" to me (supe... John Abbott
16:58 CoCoA-5 Design #1127 (Closed): subalgebra package obsolete?
Is the *@subalgebra.cpkg5@* package obsolete now that we have homomorphism fns in CoCoALib? John Abbott
15:28 CoCoALib Feature #587: port to CoCoALib: Homomorphism pkg (ker, IsInjective, IsSurjective..)
What is the status of this issue? Isn't it nearly finished?
Related to thi is the use of @PreImage@ in some CoCoA...
John Abbott

20 Nov 2017

22:31 CoCoA-5 Bug #545 (Closed): Compiler g++ 4.2.1 (clang-503.0.40) on MacOSX 10.9: warnings and errors
Now using 10.11.
There are still some warning (lots), but compilation has been working fine for ages now.
Closing.
Anna Maria Bigatti
22:14 CoCoA-5 Bug #545 (Feedback): Compiler g++ 4.2.1 (clang-503.0.40) on MacOSX 10.9: warnings and errors
Anna Maria Bigatti
22:01 CoCoA-5 Design #1123 (Feedback): Should "minimalize" be obsolescent?
Trying to "save" it and postponing it, I wasted time.
I realized that the CoCoALib function @myMinimalize@ is just a...
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:12 CoCoALib Feature #730 (Closed): Stats in GBMill (GReductor)
Closing this issue.
May be improved, but it is acceptable for the general requirement.
I needed make a more specifi...
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:07 CoCoALib Feature #1053 (Closed): New function: IdealOfGBasis, IdealOfMinGens in CoCoALib
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:49 CoCoALib Feature #1126 (Closed): New function: SubmoduleOfMinGens
As for ideals. Anna Maria Bigatti
15:47 CoCoA-5 Design #1020 (Closed): Rename minimalized(I) into IdealOfMinGens(I)?
Done.
It should also be dome properly for modules, doing in CoCoALib @SubmoduleOfGBasis@ and @SubmoduleOfMinGens@.
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:06 CoCoALib Design #908: Sum of ideals: what are the generators of (x) + (0)?
I have met this problem in a particular context (hyperplane arrangements).
We constructed an ideal and then asked @S...
Anna Maria Bigatti

16 Nov 2017

17:13 CoCoALib Design #1125: Separate install script for CoCoALib?
A crucial aspect is passing to the script all the values it will need (including a path which might contain awkward c... John Abbott
16:38 CoCoALib Design #1125 (New): Separate install script for CoCoALib?
The @install@ target in the top @Makefile@ for CoCoALib is about 70 lines long.
It would probably be better to mak...
John Abbott
16:36 CoCoA-5 Design #1123 (In Progress): Should "minimalize" be obsolescent?
I prefer @minimalize@ to be made obsolescent; instead one should use @I := IdealOfMinGens(I)@ which is longer to writ... John Abbott
11:54 CoCoA-5 Design #1123 (Closed): Should "minimalize" be obsolescent?
minimalized --> done.
what about minimalized?
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:32 CoCoALib Design #1124: Move examples directory into doc -- or just change makefile?
If we do move @examples/@ into @doc/@ then presumably this should also be the case for an installed version of CoCoAL... John Abbott
15:24 CoCoALib Design #1124 (In Progress): Move examples directory into doc -- or just change makefile?
Anna was concerned that "hiding" @examples/@ inside @doc/@ might make it less visible; but apart from that doubt she ... John Abbott
15:22 CoCoALib Design #1124 (Closed): Move examples directory into doc -- or just change makefile?
After having improved the installation procedure for CoCoALib, it seems better/cleaner/more natural to put the direct... John Abbott
15:20 CoCoALib Feature #1005: Makefile: install target for CoCoALib
Before installing CoCoA you must compile *both* the library *and* the documentation (incl. @examples/index.html@).
T...
John Abbott

15 Nov 2017

18:11 CoCoA-5 Bug #697: Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
Seems OK to me.
Let's worry later (if at all) about outputting a newline if the last print line didn't have one......
John Abbott
17:43 CoCoA-5 Feature #1011 (Closed): Random seed fn
John Abbott
17:40 CoCoA-5 Design #939 (Closed): Rename Fact to factorial?
Moved. Closing.
John Abbott
17:23 CoCoA-5 Design #939: Rename Fact to factorial?
The advantage of moving @Fact@ (and @Factorial@?) to @obsolescent.cpkg5 is that users will get a message telling them... John Abbott
17:39 CoCoA-5 Support #940 (Closed): Check all fns in packages work even without BackwardCompatible.cpkg5
I have just run the CoCoA-5 tests with @BackwardCompatible.cpkg5@ moved to different place. All tests passed.
Ye...
John Abbott
17:36 CoCoA-5 Feature #978: CommonDenom: for polys and lists?
Work on "ideals mod p" still in progress.
Postpone to next version.
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:19 CoCoA-5 Feature #1021 (Closed): CoCoA Manual: search should ignore multiple spaces
I have implemented Approach (3).
Should we tell the public that double-quotes are "ignored" when searching in the ...
John Abbott
17:05 CoCoA-5 Slug #1109 (Closed): Emacs UI can be slow in M$ Windows
I have been using CoCoA-5 inside emacs for over a month with the new line added to @cocoa5.emacs@, and have not notic... John Abbott
17:02 CoCoA-5 Design #1067 (Closed): "Randomize" and "Randomized" obsolete?
I shall close this issue, and create a new issue about creating @RandomLinearForm@.
John Abbott
17:01 CoCoA-5 Feature #1122 (Closed): New fn: RandomLinearForm
Should we add a new function *@RandomLinearForm@*?
What should its arg(s) be?
Split off from issue #1067.
John Abbott
16:54 CoCoALib Design #908: Sum of ideals: what are the generators of (x) + (0)?
I have spoken briefly to Renzo about this.
He thinks it is most natural if @gens(ideal(L)) = L@ always.
Ideal s...
John Abbott
14:57 CoCoA-5 Slug #1025 (In Progress): Example of slow LEX GBasis computation
Here is a zero-dim ideal with simple DegRevLex RGB... John Abbott
 

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