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08 Oct 2019

21:25 CoCoA-5 Design #1334 (Closed): sylvester or SylvesterMat?
CoCoA-5 has a function called *@sylvester@*; should it not be called *@SylvesterMat@*?
John Abbott
21:08 CoCoA-5 Support #1333 (Closed): Typevectors
In the CoCoA-5 manual there is an entry *@Typevectors@* (which says NYI).
Should it be *@TypeVectors@*?
John Abbott
15:55 CoCoALib Feature #1332: New function: vector of RingElem from string -- in CoCoALib
maybe @CoCoAVector(R, string)@?
e.g.
@CoCoAVector(NewPolyRing(QQ,"x,y,z"), "x^2-3, y^3-1234567");@
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:49 CoCoALib Feature #1332 (Closed): New function: vector of RingElem from string -- in CoCoALib
In many cases in CoCoALib, and often also in CoCoA-5, it would be convenient to make a vector of RingElem from a stri... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:26 CoCoALib Bug #1331 (In Progress): adj: for matrices 7x7 and bigger
Here is a simple failing case:... John Abbott
15:24 CoCoALib Bug #1331 (Closed): adj: for matrices 7x7 and bigger
*@adj@* (previously @adjoint@) gives a misleading and unnecessary error mesg if given a square matrix of dimension at... John Abbott
15:04 CoCoALib Feature #1330: New syntax for NewQuotientRing
documented, cvs-ed. Anna Maria Bigatti
14:41 CoCoALib Feature #1330: New syntax for NewQuotientRing
Implemented in CoCoALib, passed to CoCoA-5
For the moment, only for principal ideal...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:20 CoCoALib Feature #1330 (Closed): New syntax for NewQuotientRing
Making a quotient ring is often tedious. In CoCoA-5 we need to write (the best we can do):... Anna Maria Bigatti
12:16 CoCoALib Feature #1329 (Closed): New syntax for creating homomorphisms (PolyAlgebraHom)
Making a homomorphism is often tedious. In CoCoA-5 we need to write (the best we can do):... Anna Maria Bigatti
12:03 CoCoA-5 Design #1327: Inconvenient PolyRingHom, PolyAlgebraHom
John Abbott wrote:
> It would be nice if we could produce an easier way to make quotient rings. For example somet...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:35 CoCoA-5 Design #1327 (In Progress): Inconvenient PolyRingHom, PolyAlgebraHom
If we find it non-trivial to create a good solution then we really should include some example(s) in the documentatio... John Abbott
08:57 CoCoA-5 Design #1327: Inconvenient PolyRingHom, PolyAlgebraHom
Alternative, without @use@:... Anna Maria Bigatti

07 Oct 2019

18:10 ApCoCoA Feature #1328 (New): New ApCoCoA UI
The old ApCoCoA UI (based on Eclipse/Java8) no longer works on more recent versions of GNU/Linux.
Implement a new ...
John Abbott
17:25 CoCoA-5 Design #1327: Inconvenient PolyRingHom, PolyAlgebraHom
Here is the solution I ended up producing, but I found discovering it to be unnatural.... John Abbott
17:13 CoCoA-5 Design #1327 (Closed): Inconvenient PolyRingHom, PolyAlgebraHom
I wanted to do in CoCoA-5 an example/exercise from Martin Kreuzer's lecture course on computer algebra.
It turned ou...
John Abbott

05 Oct 2019

12:25 CoCoA-5 Feature #1290: NewPolyRing: allow symbols with just head and no indices?
Yes, @NewPolyRing(QQ, "alpha")@ is cleaner, simpler, etc.
But if you want to specify several symbols, some of which ...
John Abbott

04 Oct 2019

16:50 CoCoA-5 Design #1164: Manual: loading manual entries written by users
updated manual Anna Maria Bigatti
16:19 CoCoA-5 Feature #1290: NewPolyRing: allow symbols with just head and no indices?
It works now. (both Mac and Linux)
However, @NewPolyRing(QQ, "alpha");@ is better, isn't it? ;-)
Close?
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:16 CoCoA-5 Bug #1273: NewPolyRing and SymbolRange together make a crash
Seems to work now, both on Mac and on Linux.
Close?
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:05 CoCoALib Feature #813: Implement "elim" in CoCoALib
Choose the syntax first... Anna Maria Bigatti

03 Oct 2019

17:41 CoCoALib Slug #1105 (Feedback): Primary Decompositon (zero-dim) slow cases
I agree: now the timings are no longer that horrible.
Indeed not bad ;-)
We can close this issue.
Have we compar...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:18 CoCoALib Design #1326 (Closed): Modify function myElim so that it returns ideal? (not quite)
Currently we have... Anna Maria Bigatti
17:08 CoCoALib Bug #935: ElimMat, ElimHomogMat: complain about zero or negative weights
Now I cannot remember WHY they should complain....
postpone to next version
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:43 CoCoALib Bug #1248 (Feedback): MinPolyQuot: guaranteed and ideal without GBasis
I think this is all done now: #1248-6
Also the principal ideal has been dealt with: #1249
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:24 CoCoALib Feature #1251 (Feedback): New function: radical for monomial ideal
done.
@ideal SparsePolyRingBase::IdealImpl::myRadical_MonId() const@
in @SparsePolyOps-MonomialIdeal.C@
does NOT m...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:43 CoCoALib Feature #1209 (Closed): New function: HasPositiveGrading
Done. Tested from CoCoA-5 (false for #1211, true in @anna.cocoa5@).
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:37 CoCoALib Bug #1211 (Closed): HilbertSeries should check grading
added a test in @CoCoA-5/tests/ErrMesg.cocoa5@
closed
Anna Maria Bigatti

02 Oct 2019

16:27 CoCoA-5 Slug #948 (Resolved): radical is slow (compared to singular) on these examples
I have just tried a few examples, and they seems to be much quicker (but perhaps not as fast as Singular).
Should we...
John Abbott
16:22 CoCoA-5 Bug #1226 (Closed): ExternalLibs return empty list
This has been in feedback for at least 7 months. I cannot quickly and easily check whether the GSL problem still per... John Abbott
16:17 CoCoA-5 Support #169: Font for parameters in manual
We should try to work through the manual systematically. Perhaps there should be 26 sub-issues, one for each initial... John Abbott
16:10 CoCoALib Slug #1105: Primary Decompositon (zero-dim) slow cases
This seems to be related to issue #1230
I have just tried the examples from comment 13, but changing the current r...
John Abbott
12:49 CoCoALib Feature #1251: New function: radical for monomial ideal
Now the official function in CoCoALib is @radical_tmp@ (will be @radical@ when all code is written in CoCoALib)
Wh...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:07 CoCoALib Bug #1211: HilbertSeries should check grading
The problem is testing it...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:07 CoCoALib Bug #1211 (Feedback): HilbertSeries should check grading
fixed using @HasPositiveGrading@, and proper testing. Anna Maria Bigatti

01 Oct 2019

17:42 CoCoA-5 Bug #1325 (Closed): Emacs UI: emacs does not recognize "until" as marking the end of a "repeat" block
When typing in code into a CoCoA-5 buffer, emacs does not recognise that the keyword *@until@* as marking the end of ... John Abbott
17:37 CoCoA-5 Bug #1104: Eigenvectors: inconsistent return type
Even the example in the manual exhibits this... that's embarrassing. We should decide what to do, and then take acti... John Abbott
15:42 CoCoALib Feature #1249 (Closed): principal ideal has a Gbasis
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:57 CoCoALib Feature #1249: principal ideal has a Gbasis
Has this already been done?
I think what Anna showed me in Genova, indicated that it has been done. If so, we can c...
John Abbott
14:53 CoCoA-5 Design #1120 (Resolved): Web site
Can we close this issue now?
John Abbott
14:52 CoCoA-5 Design #168: Type info in CoCoA-5 manual
Can we close this now?
John Abbott
14:49 CoCoA-5 Design #1292: Interpreter: fns which accept INT or RAT
Some cases where it may not be so clear:
* *@den@* and *@num@*
* *@SmoothFactor@*
* *@floor@* and *@ceil@*
(...
John Abbott
14:44 CoCoA-5 Bug #1230 (In Progress): PrimaryDecomposition with lex ordering
The given example seems to work now. Has this been fixed?
If so, close; otherwise postpone to next version.
John Abbott
14:41 CoCoA-5 Support #1220 (Closed): NewRingFp obsolescent; superseded by NewZZmod
John Abbott
14:35 CoCoA-5 Support #1241: GDPR: website, mailing list
We should seek advice about this. John Abbott
14:33 CoCoA-5 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual
I have added two tutorials: one about giving *feedback and reporting bugs*, the other about some *basic emacs* comman... John Abbott
14:31 CoCoA-5 Slug #709: Speed of some Normaliz calls (NmzComputation)
We should check what happens with current (2019-10-01) versions of CoCoALib and Normaliz. John Abbott
14:27 CoCoA-5 Design #476: Review utility of package IO
If the package exports only *@format@*, perhaps that package name should be changed to @format@? John Abbott
14:25 CoCoA-5 Support #1240 (Closed): John's visit Feb 2019
Closing this because the visit is over -- this does not imply that we achieved all that we had hoped to. :-( John Abbott
14:21 CoCoA-5 Feature #368: port SmithNormalForm (CoCoA-4)package to CoCoA-5
I think Florian had done some implementing; perhaps we can delegate to him?
John Abbott
14:19 CoCoA-5 Support #1217 (Rejected): CoCoA-5 tests directory: cleaning
This is apparently a duplicate of #1318, so rejecting. John Abbott
14:11 CoCoA-5 Bug #1321 (Closed): RealRoots fails on -x^2
I have added @RealRoots(-x^2)@ to the exbugs test suite.
Closing.
John Abbott
14:05 CoCoA-5 Design #1164: Manual: loading manual entries written by users
The manual entry for @ReloadMan@ needs to be updated, assuming that the impl is meant to be public.
John Abbott
13:34 CoCoALib Bug #1300 (Closed): CoprimeFactorBasis: mishandles negative args
Added a test (to @test-bug1.C@).
Corrected name in doc in @doc/txt/NumTheory.txt@.
John Abbott
12:22 CoCoALib Slug #866: implicit, ImplicitHypersurface: improve output verification
2019-10-01: I have just tried the example from comment 2, and now it takes about 5.9s on my computer.
John Abbott
12:15 CoCoALib Bug #1248: MinPolyQuot: guaranteed and ideal without GBasis
We should either close this issue (almost immediately), or postpone it (to 0.99700?). John Abbott
12:07 CoCoALib Feature #813: Implement "elim" in CoCoALib
I have increased this to max priority because I believe it is trivial to achieve, and it would be nice to close the i... John Abbott
12:00 CoCoALib Design #707: MatrixOrderingMod32749Impl: test and write documentation!
Can we use a bigger modulus now that we are effectively assuming 64-bit platform? (are we?) John Abbott
11:55 CoCoALib Slug #1105: Primary Decompositon (zero-dim) slow cases
Here is a short file which checks the computation times of the examples given above:... John Abbott
11:37 CoCoALib Feature #259 (Feedback): Squarefree(?) GCD-free basis
I changed the names (not sure when).
A problem with the integer version is that the "squarefree" part is potential...
John Abbott
11:31 CoCoALib Bug #1250 (Closed): SEGV: CoCoALib with Normaliz in multithreading
This has been in "feedback" for 7 months, so I'm closing.
John Abbott

30 Sep 2019

20:00 CoCoA-5 Support #1315 (In Progress): Manual entry about reporting bugs?
I have added a "tutorial" page about giving feedback and reporting bugs.
I was not sure where to put it, but perha...
John Abbott
19:42 CoCoALib Slug #1324: Improve RootBound
*CAREFUL* with the suggestions below: it is likely the @RootBound@ is used internally when factorizing or computing s... John Abbott
19:40 CoCoALib Slug #1324 (In Progress): Improve RootBound
It maybe possible to improve @RootBound@ (in some cases) by using @SqfreeFactor@.
Also the CoCoA-5 prototype @Good...
John Abbott
19:32 CoCoALib Support #1263: Tidy CoCoALib test directory
I have transferred test-bugN into test-bug1 for N=6,7,8,9. So far, so good.
John Abbott
16:14 CoCoALib Feature #1323: Improve RealRoots: compute sqfr decomp
Sqfr decomp should always be reasonably quick; full factorization could be slow if the input is "nasty".
One could...
John Abbott
16:11 CoCoALib Feature #1323: Improve RealRoots: compute sqfr decomp
I have already begun writing a package called @RRList@.
I think this is related, esp. as regards combining the inter...
John Abbott
16:09 CoCoALib Feature #1323 (New): Improve RealRoots: compute sqfr decomp
Consider changing @RealRoots@ so that it computes the sqfr decomp of the input poly, then works on the separate piece... John Abbott

29 Sep 2019

21:57 CoCoA-5 Bug #1321 (Feedback): RealRoots fails on -x^2
Indeed I had "fixed" it, but there was a slight mistake: I forgot to guarantee that the LC of the poly handed to the ... John Abbott

27 Sep 2019

18:21 CoCoA-5 Support #1318: Clean CoCoA-5/tests directory
@test-output.cocoa5@ fails with "wrong output" ???
If run inside emacs using C-c C-f, the test produces no output...
John Abbott
18:12 CoCoA-5 Support #1318: Clean CoCoA-5/tests directory
Some *@TutHokkaido@* tests fail (non-zero exit status in 3 cases).
John Abbott
18:09 CoCoA-5 Support #1318 (Resolved): Clean CoCoA-5/tests directory
Here are the tests which we might want to keep:
* *@packages.cocoa5@*
* *@parameters.cocoa5@*
* *@protection.cocoa...
John Abbott
17:42 CoCoA-5 Bug #1286: Website: trouble with the world map
The result is mostly satisfactory. Now I see a symbol of "broken image" rather than a thumbnail map.
If I click on ...
John Abbott
17:33 CoCoALib Bug #905 (Closed): txt2tags: double quotes wrong in LaTeX
John Abbott
17:27 CoCoALib Bug #1317 (Closed): txt2tags: LaTeX/PDF section numbers over 99 in TOC
Works reasonably well for me. Closing.
John Abbott
17:25 CoCoA-5 Feature #1231 (Closed): system command
Tested on MacOSX.
Works.
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1314: Emacs UI: open manual pages in a separate frame?
Perhaps we need a separate process to show the manual pages?
A possibility is to run a whole separate CoCoA-5 sess...
John Abbott
17:13 CoCoA-5 Bug #1322: SEGV when debugging is active
Added a CoCoALib test John Abbott
16:58 CoCoA-5 Bug #1322 (Closed): SEGV when debugging is active
Silly problem, when you know it...
There was a debugging call @CoCoA_ASSERT(myMinGens().empty())@ (causing an infini...
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:37 CoCoA-5 Bug #1322 (In Progress): SEGV when debugging is active
... John Abbott
11:02 CoCoA-5 Bug #1322 (Closed): SEGV when debugging is active
Seems to work fine if compiled without *@--debug@*, but several tests fail (SEGV) when @--debug@ is active:... John Abbott

26 Sep 2019

16:46 CoCoA-5 Bug #1321 (In Progress): RealRoots fails on -x^2
I thought I had already fixed this bug. Indeed the code is there inside @RealRoots2@; the code assumed that the arg ... John Abbott

25 Sep 2019

18:15 CoCoA-5 Support #1318: Clean CoCoA-5/tests directory
Here is a list of apparently redundant files:
* @assert.cocoa5@
* TBC
John Abbott
14:25 CoCoA-5 Support #1318 (Closed): Clean CoCoA-5/tests directory
There are some old files in @CoCoA-5/tests/@ which seems no longer to be used. Perhaps delete them?
John Abbott
18:14 CoCoA-5 Support #1027: CoCoAManual: add a page with some emacs hints?
JAA has written a first draft of a *tutorial for using the Emacs UI*; it will need to be expanded/improved.
John Abbott
17:18 CoCoA-5 Support #1027: CoCoAManual: add a page with some emacs hints?
A possibility is to put the web page(s) referred to in comment 2 into a local file, so that it is always accessible.
...
John Abbott
17:58 CoCoA-5 Bug #1321 (Closed): RealRoots fails on -x^2
Small failing example:... John Abbott
17:13 CoCoALib Feature #1283 (Closed): Printing for (prime) finite fields
Where should the documentation go? John Abbott
16:04 CoCoALib Feature #1283 (Resolved): Printing for (prime) finite fields
John Abbott
14:33 CoCoALib Feature #1283: Printing for (prime) finite fields
Anna says OK to my "hack".
Now I need to document and check everything in.
John Abbott
15:50 CoCoA-5 Bug #1320: CoCoA-5 manual: incorrect empty line in syntax box (in PDF file)
This seems to be related to commands which return no result, or which have extra "descriptions" inside the syntax par... John Abbott
15:49 CoCoA-5 Bug #1320 (New): CoCoA-5 manual: incorrect empty line in syntax box (in PDF file)
In the PDF version there are "unhappy" empty lines at the end of some boxes around the "syntax" of some commands.
...
John Abbott
15:29 CoCoALib Bug #1319: Problem rebuilding dependencies when file PREPROCESSOR_DEFNS.H does not exist
The point is that @make veryclean@ also deletes (most of?) the files generated by configuration.
Something is evid...
John Abbott
15:13 CoCoALib Bug #1319: Problem rebuilding dependencies when file PREPROCESSOR_DEFNS.H does not exist
The error mesgs appear when the makefile tries to rebuild the dependencies.
John Abbott
15:11 CoCoALib Bug #1319 (Closed): Problem rebuilding dependencies when file PREPROCESSOR_DEFNS.H does not exist
I did something like the following, and ended with lots of error messages about @PREPROCESSOR_DEFNS.H@ not existing.
...
John Abbott
14:28 CoCoALib Support #1263: Tidy CoCoALib test directory
Anna approves of merging the exbugs into a single file, and to including @CoCoA/library.H@.
Do this (soon!)
John Abbott
11:58 CoCoA-5 Feature #1231: system command
Currently, any output from the system command is sent to @stdout@ (so might be lost if a GUI is being used).
Perhaps...
John Abbott
11:54 CoCoA-5 Feature #1231 (Feedback): system command
There is a manual page now. John Abbott
08:00 CoCoALib Bug #1317 (Feedback): txt2tags: LaTeX/PDF section numbers over 99 in TOC
Fixed. CVSed. Anna Maria Bigatti
07:38 CoCoALib Feature #1209: New function: HasPositiveGrading
We decided (personal discussion) to implement it only for @ring@, because the real utility of this function is for co... Anna Maria Bigatti

24 Sep 2019

18:51 CoCoALib Bug #905 (Feedback): txt2tags: double quotes wrong in LaTeX
John Abbott
15:51 CoCoALib Bug #1317: txt2tags: LaTeX/PDF section numbers over 99 in TOC
we need to play with the arguments in ... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:47 CoCoALib Bug #1317: txt2tags: LaTeX/PDF section numbers over 99 in TOC
Anna thinks this may be easy to resolve.
John Abbott
15:12 CoCoALib Bug #1317 (Closed): txt2tags: LaTeX/PDF section numbers over 99 in TOC
In the index/table-of-contents there is no enough space for section numbers greater than 99.
The section number ov...
John Abbott
15:24 CoCoA-5 Support #1314 (In Progress): Emacs UI: open manual pages in a separate frame?
One possible approach would be to write the manual page to a file (perhaps inside @/tmp@ somewhere), then open the fi... John Abbott
15:03 CoCoA-5 Bug #1286 (Feedback): Website: trouble with the world map
Anna thinks she has found a decent compromise. Anyway the CPU burning has stopped.
Feedback!
John Abbott
14:53 CoCoA-5 Bug #1286: Website: trouble with the world map
Anna has got rid of the CPU burning part. Still trying to find a decent compromise for when the map cannot be shown.
John Abbott
10:50 CoCoALib Feature #1209: New function: HasPositiveGrading
Apparently we decided to remove the function I was going to use (@IsPosiveGrading@ with two args), but in the time be... Anna Maria Bigatti
10:16 CoCoALib Feature #1209 (In Progress): New function: HasPositiveGrading
Now I understand what I meant.
+ There is a function called @IsPositiveGrading@ taking a weight matrix for input. T...
Anna Maria Bigatti

23 Sep 2019

13:00 CoCoALib Feature #1209: New function: HasPositiveGrading
Do you simply mean a @GradingDim@ function which can be applied to a @PPMonoid@ or a @SparsePolyRing@? John Abbott
12:54 CoCoALib Slug #1170: SmoothFactor: slow when a factor is found
An idea (in C++) is to have a sort of @SmoothFactor@ iterator which can be told to continue from where it has reached... John Abbott
12:41 CoCoALib Slug #1238: ReadExpr is too slow on long lists of monomial with many indets: ---> use RingElems instead
I have run the profiler.
A lot of time is spent in *@AreDistinct(vector<symbol>)@*; presumably the call is around @r...
John Abbott
12:20 CoCoALib Slug #1238: ReadExpr is too slow on long lists of monomial with many indets: ---> use RingElems instead
Here is another case where it is surprisingly slow:... John Abbott
12:16 CoCoALib Slug #1238: ReadExpr is too slow on long lists of monomial with many indets: ---> use RingElems instead
2019-09-23 This is still very slow. Here is a specific test case:... John Abbott
11:49 CoCoALib Bug #1211: HilbertSeries should check grading
JAA confirms that this bug still exists in the current build (2019-09-23).
John Abbott

20 Sep 2019

16:10 CoCoA-5 Feature #1231: system command
There is currently no manual entry for *@SystemCommand@*.
John Abbott

19 Sep 2019

13:23 CoCoA-5 Feature #1316: Matrix row reduction (rref)
What exactly should the user interface be?
* Just return the rref?
* return rref and a transformation?
* must th...
John Abbott
13:21 CoCoA-5 Feature #1316 (Closed): Matrix row reduction (rref)
Julian Danner would like a function for computing the "row reduced echelon form" (rref) of a matrix.
John Abbott

18 Sep 2019

10:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1315: Manual entry about reporting bugs?
What ways do we have for reporting bugs? Email to @cocoa@? Write it on redmine? Email a person?
Suitable keywor...
John Abbott
10:21 CoCoA-5 Support #1315 (Closed): Manual entry about reporting bugs?
After reading about the problems with *@=@* and *@;@* in aquamacs, I thought "Why didn't he just report the bug norma... John Abbott

13 Sep 2019

11:30 CoCoALib Support #1263: Tidy CoCoALib test directory
I added a new "exbug" to one of the @test-bugN.C@ files, and noticed that it was quite a nuisance having to add all t... John Abbott

12 Sep 2019

09:44 CoCoA-5 Support #1312: Wrong links on page about COCOA School in Sapporo
Elisa e Michele: Esistono ancora le pagine ufficiali del corso sul sito dell'universita'? io non le riesco a trovare. Anna Maria Bigatti
08:33 CoCoA-5 Support #1314: Emacs UI: open manual pages in a separate frame?
It could be quite tricky to implement.
Anyway, I think it should be a separate window, not buffer.
Opening another ...
Anna Maria Bigatti

11 Sep 2019

21:07 CoCoA-5 Support #1314 (In Progress): Emacs UI: open manual pages in a separate frame?
Martin Kreuzer says he likes the manual pages to appear separate from the output of commands.
I can see his point, e...
John Abbott
21:04 CoCoA-5 Support #1027: CoCoAManual: add a page with some emacs hints?
I would also like some information which does not require access to internet.
I notice that CoCoA-5 no longer ment...
John Abbott
15:47 CoCoA-5 Feature #1313 (New): Automatic conversion from RINGELEM to INT
CoCoA-5 can be awkward about not "recognising" that a value is an integer.... John Abbott
14:24 CoCoA-5 Support #1312 (Closed): Wrong links on page about COCOA School in Sapporo
The links to course details on the web page for the 2018 School in Sapporo lead to something about "alien (species) i... John Abbott
14:14 CoCoA-5 Support #1311: THINGS TO DO IN GENOVA September 2019
Here is a list of files *@ex-*.C@* which are not compiled by the @Makefile@:
* ex-BenchmarkToolkit.C, ex-DellaCorte...
John Abbott
13:55 CoCoA-5 Support #1311: THINGS TO DO IN GENOVA September 2019
Here is a short list of things to do:
* make interim release
* start planning release for next COCOA School
Anna...
John Abbott
13:53 CoCoA-5 Support #1311 (Closed): THINGS TO DO IN GENOVA September 2019
This is a pseudo-issue: I have created it just to gather together issue we should should try to address while I'm in ... John Abbott
13:51 CoCoALib Bug #905: txt2tags: double quotes wrong in LaTeX
This is still a problem. It would be nice to fix it before a deadline on 29th Sept!
I am also not convinced by th...
John Abbott
13:41 CoCoA-5 Bug #1286 (In Progress): Website: trouble with the world map
The CPU burning problem continues to exist apparently even without visiting the site in private mode (but I have forg... John Abbott
11:29 CoCoALib Bug #1310 (Feedback): RealRoots: gives odd number of roots for deg 6 irred poly
I have found a bug, and fixed it! It produces reasonable answers on the two tests mentioned above:... John Abbott
10:30 CoCoALib Bug #1310: RealRoots: gives odd number of roots for deg 6 irred poly
I now have a simpler failing example:... John Abbott

10 Sep 2019

17:32 CoCoALib Bug #1310 (In Progress): RealRoots: gives odd number of roots for deg 6 irred poly
There appear to be two real roots: approx -4.00095 and 1.05
@RootBound(f)@ gives about 2.95; *this is wrong!*
John Abbott
13:53 CoCoALib Bug #1310 (Closed): RealRoots: gives odd number of roots for deg 6 irred poly
The following looks to be wrong:... John Abbott
12:26 CoCoALib Design #1309: SmoothFactor: allow limit = 1?
I have just changed the code to allow limit=1. All tests and examples pass (which suggests that the tests were not v... John Abbott
11:58 CoCoALib Design #1309: SmoothFactor: allow limit = 1?
There are two separate impls for @SmoothFactor@ (one for @MachineInt@ and one for @BigInt@). One allowed the limit 1... John Abbott
11:41 CoCoALib Design #1309 (In Progress): SmoothFactor: allow limit = 1?
The original reason for imposing the limit was to help users detect "obviously silly" function calls. Now I think th... John Abbott
11:36 CoCoALib Design #1309 (Closed): SmoothFactor: allow limit = 1?
The @SmoothFactor@ function tries to factorize integers by dividing by all primes up to a specified limit.
Current...
John Abbott
 

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