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From 09 Nov 2021 to 08 Dec 2021

07 Dec 2021

00:11 CoCoA-5 Bug #1640: MinSubsetOfGens does not find min subset
I have now re-read the manual, and understood what it was trying to say.
Maybe re-write the manual entry to make it ...
John Abbott
00:09 CoCoA-5 Bug #1640: MinSubsetOfGens does not find min subset
I had wanted to show @MinSubsetOfGens@ to my students, but maybe it is better not to do so.
The code is weird; I a...
John Abbott
00:08 CoCoA-5 Bug #1640 (Closed): MinSubsetOfGens does not find min subset
Not sure what @MinSubsetOfGens@ does, but it does not find a min card subset of the gens which generate the same idea... John Abbott
20:26 CoCoA-5 Bug #1639: RealRoots: crashes after interrupting
I still get a crash with @product([x-k | k in 0..600])@ and interrupting after about 20s.
Trying with 500 instead of...
John Abbott
17:49 CoCoA-5 Bug #1639 (New): RealRoots: crashes after interrupting
Naturally I discovered this while giving a demo to my students...... John Abbott

06 Dec 2021

20:37 CoCoA-5 Slug #1638: MinSubsetOfGens sometimes very slow
There are only 256 subsets to try; and some can be quickly eliminated.
I saw the source, and understand that it is n...
John Abbott
20:35 CoCoA-5 Slug #1638 (New): MinSubsetOfGens sometimes very slow
I have just tried @MinSubsetOfGens@, and was surprised how slow it was on a small example.... John Abbott

01 Dec 2021

14:49 CoCoALib Feature #1637 (New): Intersection of Ideals: has GBasis?
When one computes the intersection of two ideals, are the resulting generators a GBasis?
Sometimes they are: can we ...
John Abbott

26 Nov 2021

18:48 CoCoA-5 Bug #1104: Eigenvectors: inconsistent return type
Here is an observation about the given example:
* in the case that the eigenvalue is rational (_i.e._ in the field),...
John Abbott
18:44 CoCoA-5 Slug #1629: RingElem slow with many indets
Anna implemented a quick fix: it was much faster, but would also sometimes give a wrong answer (we understood why).
...
John Abbott
15:29 CoCoA-5 Slug #1629: RingElem slow with many indets
After a common investigation via skype, we noticed that @ReadExpr@ (called by RingElem) creates @map<symbol, RingElem... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:03 CoCoA-5 Slug #1629 (In Progress): RingElem slow with many indets
Simpler test:... John Abbott
17:10 CoCoALib Support #262: Play with GIT
Does anyone have useful experience to help decide between Github/Gitlab/other? And also how one goes about in practice? John Abbott
17:08 CoCoALib Support #262: Play with GIT
Florian and Bernhard suggest putting the source on Github/Gitlab.
John Abbott

25 Nov 2021

17:13 CoCoA-5 Support #1636 (In Progress): Missing/Incomplete manual entries
Some entries in the online manual are missing or very incomplete.... John Abbott
16:47 CoCoALib Feature #1635 (In Progress): NR for polys with coeffs in PID
Make @NR@ work also polys with coeffs in a PID (at least in @ZZ@).
This is a stepping stone to GBasis over @ZZ@.
John Abbott

23 Nov 2021

22:06 CoCoALib Support #256 (Resolved): Improve doc about ordering/grading for poly rings
I think the doc in @SparsePolyRing.txt@ is OK now. Do you agree, Anna?
John Abbott
17:15 CoCoA-5 Bug #1634: Unexpected or unhelpful error using GroebnerFanIdeals
The problem is that the ordering matrix has some big entry (after being converted into a matrix with positive entries... Anna Maria Bigatti

22 Nov 2021

20:29 CoCoA-5 Bug #1634: Unexpected or unhelpful error using GroebnerFanIdeals
Here is a simpler failing example: I have just reduced the exponents... John Abbott
20:23 CoCoA-5 Bug #1634: Unexpected or unhelpful error using GroebnerFanIdeals
I find the error quite surprising; at least the particular error that was thrown.
I had half expected there to be so...
John Abbott
20:21 CoCoA-5 Bug #1634 (In Progress): Unexpected or unhelpful error using GroebnerFanIdeals
Here is the troublesome input: it throws *@ArgTooBig@*... John Abbott
20:19 CoCoA-5 Design #984: GroebnerFanIdeals: order matrices sometimes have "large" entries
It seems that the first two rows are "almost parallel" -- why should that be?
Anyway, it should be easy to reduce th...
John Abbott

19 Nov 2021

17:25 CoCoALib Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
for example, this would be nice... Anna Maria Bigatti
17:18 CoCoALib Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
We agreed that the string for the name of the function should contain just the name of the function, and its argument... Anna Maria Bigatti
17:05 CoCoALib Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
Anna suggests that the error message should also indicate which args (via their indices, starting from 0 or 1?)
For ...
John Abbott
17:02 CoCoA-5 Bug #1622: BuiltinOneLiners -- less precise location in error messages
I believe that the error must be clear enough in CoCoALib so that there is no need to intercept (all??) situations li... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:32 CoCoA-5 Feature #1616 (Closed): UnivariateIndetIndex: remove cocoa-5 implementation and use CoCoALib's
Anna Maria Bigatti

17 Nov 2021

12:04 CoCoALib Feature #1633: Make polynomial multiplication interruptible?
This is weird. I reverted to the old code because I wanted to confirm that it is not interruptible.
Indeed, it took...
John Abbott
11:59 CoCoALib Feature #1633: Make polynomial multiplication interruptible?
I have just inserted a @CheckForInterrupt@ in the main loop for multiplication.
The simpler test example from commen...
John Abbott
11:53 CoCoALib Feature #1633 (In Progress): Make polynomial multiplication interruptible?
Here is a simpler test example... John Abbott
11:50 CoCoALib Feature #1633: Make polynomial multiplication interruptible?
The relevant source code is probably @myMul@ in @SparsePolyOps-RingElem.C@ around line 413.
John Abbott

16 Nov 2021

20:33 CoCoALib Feature #1633: Make polynomial multiplication interruptible?
One crucial factor is how much overhead it would cost if we put a check inside some inner loop.
Also how many diff...
John Abbott
20:32 CoCoALib Feature #1633 (Closed): Make polynomial multiplication interruptible?
I tried a (daft) example during an exercise class today: when tried to square a large polynomial it was not possible ... John Abbott
10:38 CoCoALib Bug #1281: Factor of multivariate sometimes prints ERROR
When it happens, it happens in pairs. Run this:... Anna Maria Bigatti
10:24 CoCoALib Bug #1281: Factor of multivariate sometimes prints ERROR
I confirm I (rarely) meet this error with tough examples in our development of Comprehensive Groebner Systems.
Anna Maria Bigatti

15 Nov 2021

20:06 CoCoALib Slug #1394: Oddly slow GBasis computation (slow final cleanup)
Here is another example using lex:... John Abbott

12 Nov 2021

00:58 CoCoALib Feature #1598: RingHom: implement phi(X) as apply(phi, X) also for X vector and matrix
We should update the doc so that it encourages people to apply RINGHOM directly rather than using @apply@.
We should...
John Abbott
00:55 CoCoA-5 Design #1631: Use filesystem::path instead of string (packageDir, CoCoAManFileName)
The global @packageDir@ should probably also be of type @boost::filesystem::path@.
Currently it is @std::string@ a...
John Abbott
10:25 CoCoA-5 Design #1631: Use filesystem::path instead of string (packageDir, CoCoAManFileName)
It seems that @filesystem::path@ was introduced in C++17.
Anna asks whether we should start compiling with standard ...
John Abbott
10:21 CoCoA-5 Design #1631 (New): Use filesystem::path instead of string (packageDir, CoCoAManFileName)
In some files we use @std::string@ to represent paths to files.
Replace these with values of type @filesystem::path@...
John Abbott
00:52 CoCoA-5 Bug #1104: Eigenvectors: inconsistent return type
Which type of answer do we prefer? LIST or MAT?
If we prefer MAT, are the eigenvectors the rows or the columns? ...
John Abbott
18:11 CoCoALib Design #1632: C++17: notes about updating
Here is a list of things to attend to when updating to C++17
* currently Scott Meyers does not have a C++17 book, so...
John Abbott
18:09 CoCoALib Design #1632 (New): C++17: notes about updating
This issue is for gathering notes about updating to C++17 (from C++14).
John Abbott
11:44 CoCoALib Design #1617 (Closed): UnivariateIndetIndex: exact semantics
John Abbott
11:41 CoCoA-5 Support #1534: Install CoCoA-5 on MacOS-10.15+
Check if this is still a problem!
What does Robbiano do?
John Abbott
11:34 CoCoA-5 Feature #1526: EmacsUI: help/manual for selected string -- or just for word with cursor on?
I have just tested what happens if there is some unsent input in the CoCoA-5, and it seems to discard the unsent inpu... John Abbott
11:32 CoCoA-5 Feature #1526 (In Progress): EmacsUI: help/manual for selected string -- or just for word with cursor on?
Might it make sense to bind also @C-c h@ and perhaps @C-c ?@ or even @C-c C-?@
Just some suggestions.... maybe t...
John Abbott
11:30 CoCoA-5 Feature #1526: EmacsUI: help/manual for selected string -- or just for word with cursor on?
Done for the CoCoA-5 menu. Anna Maria Bigatti
11:25 CoCoA-5 Feature #1526: EmacsUI: help/manual for selected string -- or just for word with cursor on?
it is probably easy to add it to the cocoa5-comint menu.
What about the keybinding?
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:14 CoCoA-5 Support #1398 (Closed): Website: hide/delete all the CoCoA-4 stuff?
Website seems ok now.
Closing.
John Abbott
10:45 CoCoA-5 Bug #1356 (Closed): CoCoA-5 header files: should use a common prefix for CPP variables which enforce read-once
John Abbott
10:43 CoCoALib Support #1555: Software licence
We need to decide what the restrictive message should say.
Ideally it should be just 1 or 2 lines long, and placed v...
John Abbott
10:28 CoCoALib Support #1555: Software licence
We need to consider also the copyright notices in the sources for CoCoA-5.
Should the copyright notice for CoCoA-5 f...
John Abbott
10:23 CoCoA-5 Bug #1397 (Closed): Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
No longer crashes. So that's good.
Now we just need to clean up the path, but that's in a new issue #1631
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:06 CoCoA-5 Design #1496: Use "special" names for variables inside tests
Anna is reasonably convinced by the idea. She made some alternative proposals:
* use all capital letters for names ...
John Abbott
09:48 CoCoA-5 Bug #1610 (Closed): IsInRadical: some more little bugs
No new bugs have surfaced. Closing this issue. Anna Maria Bigatti

10 Nov 2021

20:12 CoCoALib Design #1630 (New): Signal handler not portable?
Bruns reported by email that CoCoALib does not compile on an @"msys"@ platform because @sigaction@ is absent.
Inve...
John Abbott
20:10 CoCoALib Feature #1488 (Feedback): BuiltIn Interreduce-Function
Is there documentation now? John Abbott
20:08 CoCoALib Design #1617: UnivariateIndetIndex: exact semantics
I have updated the documentation to the current behaviour. John Abbott
20:02 CoCoALib Design #1617 (Feedback): UnivariateIndetIndex: exact semantics
John Abbott
19:49 CoCoA-5 Design #1496 (In Progress): Use "special" names for variables inside tests
I have decided to "test" the idea of putting a single underscore at the start of names.
I have just modified @bug-...
John Abbott
19:41 CoCoA-5 Bug #1294 (Feedback): CoCoA-5 tests may fail even if executed correctly
I made the change about a year ago (according to redmine), and no complaints have surfaced.
So advancing to *feedbac...
John Abbott
19:34 CoCoA-5 Bug #1604: SqFreeFactor crashes over non-perfect field
No real chance of finding time to resolve this in the foreseeable future :-(
Probably not that hard, but it will sur...
John Abbott
19:32 CoCoA-5 Bug #1610: IsInRadical: some more little bugs
Anna: can you close this issue? John Abbott
18:57 CoCoA-5 Bug #1397: Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
We probably need to change the fn @CoCoAManFileName@ (around line 950 in @OnlineHelp.C@).
The return type should be ...
John Abbott
18:43 CoCoA-5 Bug #1397: Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
There is a stackoverflow thread about getting @dirname@: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3071665/getting-a-direct... John Abbott
18:29 CoCoA-5 Bug #1397: Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
It would be nice (& cleaner) if we could get rid of @packages/../@.
I think this should be possible.
John Abbott
18:27 CoCoA-5 Bug #1397: Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
I have modified the error message slightly. Now it gives:... John Abbott
18:17 CoCoA-5 Bug #1412 (Closed): Emacs UI: font size
John Abbott
18:12 CoCoA-5 Bug #1524: wrong SystemCommand exit value
My current opinion is to return the exit code, even if this is not well defined (in a portable way).
This would allo...
John Abbott
18:07 CoCoA-5 Bug #1613 (Closed): CRASH with RingHom from FrF
John Abbott
18:04 CoCoA-5 Bug #1614 (Closed): SourceRegion gives misleading error mesg
John Abbott
 

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