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From 17 Jan 2022 to 15 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022
- 21:43 CoCoALib Design #581: C++14: MachineInt
- This is not as straightforward as I was hoping.
It is not hard to change the internal repr (to @long long int@ or ev... - 10:49 CoCoALib Support #1665: Compilation on Windows: problems for normaliz
- You may need to set a "library path" to tell the system to look for libraries in "unusual places" (namely @/home/coco...
- 10:08 CoCoALib Support #1665: Compilation on Windows: problems for normaliz
- It seems that there is a similar problem on recognizing GMP libraries.
I compiled GMP on cygwin, and properly instal... - 09:57 CoCoALib Support #1665 (New): Compilation on Windows: problems for normaliz
- After the success on my Mac, I tried to compile normaliz-3.9.2 on windows/cygwin, but failed in the configuration (pr...
- 10:21 CoCoALib Support #1591 (Closed): Compilation of Normaliz
- Mac and Linux now done. I made a new issue for windows/cygwin #1665
14 Feb 2022
- 18:25 CoCoALib Feature #1235 (Closed): FreeModule: get canonical basis
- All done. Closing.
- 18:22 CoCoALib Support #618 (Closed): Instructions for compiling libnormaliz
- This is effectively superseded by issue #1591.
Closing -- the info here seems rather out of date.
- 18:16 CoCoA-5 Support #1660 (Closed): Updating file obsolescent.cpkg5: make it easier
- 18:10 CoCoALib Design #854 (Closed): Function MakeTermOrd should be renamed MakeTermOrdMat?
- 17:26 CoCoA-5 Design #1525: CoCoA Manual: homogenize obsolete/obsolescent entries
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Possibly add the year
The release/date is now shown when the function is called (see ... - 17:13 CoCoALib Design #1649: Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C
- I don't want to make hasty decision now, so this ("division related") is the state for release 0.99720.
Postponing... - 17:04 CoCoALib Design #1649: Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C
- Checked in.
Changed version numer to 719 (very close to the official 720)
Now the file contains the division rela... - 12:45 CoCoALib Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
- John Abbott wrote:
> I have done the example files... I hope no mistakes.
> What about @ex-BencharkToolkit.C@? I h... - 11:01 CoCoALib Support #1664 (New): geobucket: documentation
- How can a user discover "geobuckets" and what they are good for?
Improve the documentation!
- 09:59 CoCoALib Design #1655 (Closed): Remove ability to compile CoCoALib against UNINSTALLED gmp?
- Dowloaded, compiled, (personal-)installed also on windows.
Instructions are good.
Closing
13 Feb 2022
- 13:10 CoCoA-5 Support #1663 (New): GCDList not documented
- The fn @GCDList@ is not documented.
- 11:00 CoCoALib Design #855 (Resolved): Copyright and authorship?
- I have done the example files... I hope no mistakes.
What about @ex-BencharkToolkit.C@? I have not changed that (c...
11 Feb 2022
- 18:20 CoCoALib Bug #1662: txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
- How many files are affected? How many would need to have new names?
We could try contacting the txt2tags people to ... - 14:36 CoCoALib Bug #1662 (Resolved): txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
- It seems that txt2tags has some problems with links to filenames containing "_" or "-".
I found this out trying to m... - 10:55 CoCoALib Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
- I have checked in yesterday's changes... lots of files.
Anna could you do a few spot checks to make sure that the on...
10 Feb 2022
- 19:51 CoCoALib Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
- I've done most/all files in @doc/txt/@ and @include/CoCoA/@ and @src/AlgebraicCore/@ and @src/tests/@.
Still to... - 14:07 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- This worked for me:...
- 13:26 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- Try...
- 13:05 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- John Abbott wrote:
> Did you try following comment 10?
yes, did not work: @$GMP_INSTALLDIR@ not used, that's why... - 12:38 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- Did you try following comment 10?
- 10:59 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- John Abbott wrote:
> I compiled Normaliz without any problems: here are my notes:
> [...]
They didn't work for m... - 13:29 CoCoALib Support #26: Redmine Administration
- Remember to close (as "admin") the closed releases. (I've just "closed" some old releases)
09 Feb 2022
- 20:20 CoCoALib Bug #1661 (Closed): Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
- Bruns reported by email a problem compiling on Microsoft:...
- 20:12 CoCoALib Feature #800 (Resolved): PPMonoidSparse: impl of sparse PPs
- The code is there, and there is a test: @test-PPMonoidSparse1.C@. However many lines are commented out in the test.
... - 19:43 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- I have also had success with @normaliz-3.9.2@ (just released). I did see several compiler warnings (about normaliz c...
- 19:41 CoCoA-5 Bug #922 (Closed): Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- My 13 year old MacBook now has MacOS 10.11.6. So if anyone is stuck on 10.6.8, they must have a very old computer.
... - 16:45 CoCoA-5 Bug #922: Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- Does it still matter?
Should we worry about 10.6? I guess John can still compile it for any user who asks for it.
... - 16:49 CoCoA-5 Bug #1539: Website: installation instructions for Microsoft
- John Abbott wrote:
> With luck the current instructions will be well tested over the next couple of weeks.
> I hope... - 16:38 CoCoA-5 Support #1660: Updating file obsolescent.cpkg5: make it easier
- Further improvement:
function PrintOBSOLESCENT and OBSOLETE, and variables for CoCoA versions.
Easier for the mai... - 14:26 CoCoA-5 Bug #946: Function "ideal" evaluates the argument twice
- fixed *evalArgAsListOfSymbols*, updated test (@NewPolyRing@)
08 Feb 2022
- 21:25 CoCoALib Design #1528 (Resolved): MacOS compilation with clang
- I have done the mind-numbing name replacement. All compiles OK: fewer warnings with clang.
Checked in. I wonder i...
07 Feb 2022
- 19:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1660 (Feedback): Updating file obsolescent.cpkg5: make it easier
- I've added the functions @ObsoleteFunc@ and @ObsolescentFunc@ producing the relevant string.
Now the code is easie... - 19:19 CoCoA-5 Support #1660 (Closed): Updating file obsolescent.cpkg5: make it easier
- The file "obsolescent.cpkg5" is designed to track the latest changes and help the user to keep his code up-to-date.
... - 18:39 CoCoALib Design #1528: MacOS compilation with clang
- I think I might impl the suggestion in comment 4. We can easily change the name later... just a global subst.
Poor ... - 18:27 CoCoA-5 Support #1658: LinKerZZ not documented
- I think there was some doubt as to what the correct name for this fn should be.
Don't recall the outcome: see issue... - 18:25 CoCoA-5 Support #1658 (Resolved): LinKerZZ not documented
- Written doc; added xrefs.
Found a bug (from the example put into manual); fixed it.
Will check in shortly.
- 17:27 CoCoA-5 Support #1658 (Closed): LinKerZZ not documented
- It seems that @LinKerZZ@ is callable from CoCoA-5, but is not documented.
Rectify (after checking that code is robus... - 17:59 CoCoALib Design #854: Function MakeTermOrd should be renamed MakeTermOrdMat?
- John Abbott wrote:
> I think I have changed the doc too!
I added to the doc (lib+5) a note on the renaming (so th... - 17:57 CoCoA-5 Feature #1659 (New): Jordan Normal Form?
- CoCoA-5 can compute @eigenvectors@ (in a particular way).
Would it make sense to try to make it compute Jordan block... - 16:26 CoCoALib Feature #1645: Implement monic0(f) for the case monic(0)?
- John Abbott wrote:
> Since I am hoping to make a release quite quickly, I prefer to postpone this issue to the next ... - 16:25 CoCoALib Feature #958: New function: multiplicity and dim
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Yet to be fixed: non homogeneous input.
> (postponed again)
and again
06 Feb 2022
- 08:58 CoCoA-5 Support #1471: Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- Current CVS compiles, runs and all tests pass on Linux-64, Linux-32 and my old MacBook.
05 Feb 2022
- 21:05 CoCoA-5 Support #1455 (In Progress): In a release: which files inside the CoCoAManual
- I have changed the impl of the fn @copy-CoCoAManual@. I have checked it in without testing!!
*Anna:* please check m... - 20:40 CoCoA-5 Support #1455: In a release: which files inside the CoCoAManual
- I do not like the function @copy-CoCoAManual@ in the script @release-common.sh@.
Currently it copies everything, and... - 20:30 CoCoALib Support #1481 (In Progress): Release CoCoALib 0.99800
- 20:19 CoCoALib Feature #958: New function: multiplicity and dim
- Postpone?
- 20:17 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- I compiled normaliz on my old MacBook without any problems (following the instructions above, in comment 10).
- 20:16 CoCoALib Support #26: Redmine Administration
- According to the message at the bottom of each screen in redmine, the version we are using is about 5 years ago.
We ... - 20:13 CoCoALib Support #1612: Merge the doc file RadicalMembership.txt into ideal.txt
- I have renamed the files as in comment 2.
Any chance of getting the doc sorted out?
- 20:05 CoCoALib Feature #1645: Implement monic0(f) for the case monic(0)?
- Since I am hoping to make a release quite quickly, I prefer to postpone this issue to the next release (so we have ti...
- 19:41 CoCoALib Feature #1235 (Resolved): FreeModule: get canonical basis
- I have made a trivial impl (& written short doc).
Must also make available from CoCoA-5 (with doc).
- 17:51 CoCoALib Design #1528: MacOS compilation with clang
- I have just tried "mindlessly" changing names as suggested above on my MacBook.
That did indeed eliminate those tedi... - 13:18 CoCoALib Design #1528: MacOS compilation with clang
- I compiled on my MacBook yesterday, and all went well except for numerous warning about "hidden member fn" (or simila...
04 Feb 2022
- 22:38 CoCoALib Design #854: Function MakeTermOrd should be renamed MakeTermOrdMat?
- Now everything compiles and all tests pass.
Will check in soon.
I think I have changed the doc too!
- 22:17 CoCoALib Design #854 (Feedback): Function MakeTermOrd should be renamed MakeTermOrdMat?
- I have just renamed @MakeTermOrd@ to *@MakeTermOrdMat@*.
Checking that everything compiles; then will check in.
- 22:36 CoCoALib Slug #1057: Slug: Polynomial ring contructor slow with (big) matrix ordering
- The first line in commenrt 10 above is still about 50s... too slow!
How long does it take to compute the det of a 50... - 22:11 CoCoALib Support #1591 (Feedback): Compilation of Normaliz
- 21:12 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- I compiled Normaliz without any problems: here are my notes:...
- 22:07 CoCoALib Feature #1589 (Closed): IdealOfPoints: allow matrix of points to be defined over "wrong" ring
- This has been in feedback for 4 months without incident, so we can close.
- 22:05 CoCoALib Support #1265: Unregistered TXT files in doc
- There is a file called @SparsePolyOps.txt@ which seems to be devoid of meaningful content.
There are several files w... - 22:00 CoCoALib Support #613: Which ubuntu / debian packages are needed to compile CoCoA
- This should be updated after I have updated my Linux box (still on Ubuntu 18.04).
- 21:57 CoCoALib Design #1346: C++14: use the new for loop syntax where appropriate (like cocoa's foreach)
- How should this be done in a systematic way (which can be paused)?
Postponing since it is just "tidying up".
We mus... - 21:54 CoCoALib Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
- This is another "long and tedious" job. It needs to be done, but better when time pressure is less.
- 21:52 CoCoALib Design #1653 (Closed): Discriminant: return value
- 21:51 CoCoALib Support #1555: Software licence
- This should not be hard, but will probably take quite a lot of time... which is very scarce at the moment.
Postponin... - 21:50 CoCoALib Design #1547 (Closed): Require decimal mode for ostream?
- 21:49 CoCoALib Design #1655: Remove ability to compile CoCoALib against UNINSTALLED gmp?
- *Anna* please check everything is OK on your computer!
- 21:48 CoCoALib Design #1625 (Closed): Use new C++ keyword override
- No one has howled in the last 3 months, so closing.
Maybe on the next trip to Genoa I can check on Anna's computer. - 21:44 CoCoALib Bug #1601 (Closed): Compilation ambiguity
- Let's cross our fingers and hope that the problem has gone away by the time we jump to C++20.
Closing this issue....... - 21:40 CoCoALib Support #618: Instructions for compiling libnormaliz
- *This probably needs changing* after issue #1655.
How does this issue differ from #1591 ?
- 21:37 CoCoALib Feature #1488: BuiltIn Interreduce-Function
- This is still not documented -- Anna can you do this?
Should the code be put into @SparsePolyOps-vector@?
Presuma... - 21:33 CoCoALib Bug #1656 (Closed): SEGV in resultant
- I have added a test to @exbugs.cocoa5@ -- the one given in the description.
Closing.
- 21:31 CoCoALib Slug #1517 (Closed): RandomLinearForm
- The code works. If there is a real use-case where the low speed is a problem then we can create a new issue.
I thin... - 21:24 CoCoALib Feature #1633 (Closed): Make polynomial multiplication interruptible?
- 21:23 CoCoALib Design #1627 (Closed): Use keyword "delete" for deleted functions
- Maybe not perfect, but surely most cases have been added.
Not time efficient to search for any missed cases. Closing. - 21:20 CoCoALib Slug #1375 (Closed): Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- Maybe the current impl is not perfect, but it is good enough for these tests.
Closing.
- 21:14 CoCoALib Support #1618 (Closed): Tidy ex-RingElem2
- This has been at 90% for 3 months.
Cannot be bothered to check now. Just closing.
- 14:34 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- I have documented @MinGBoverZZ@ but no other function. It is clearly marked as @[PROTOTYPE]@.
The package is now ca...
03 Feb 2022
- 20:14 CoCoA-5 Bug #1244 (In Progress): MSatLinSolve: req minor improvements
- I have added a quick test in @BuiltinFunctions-MathSAT.C@.
A very quick test worked as hoped. But it needs more tes... - 20:02 CoCoA-5 Feature #1415: thmproving package
- Status?
Even something hasty is perhaps better than nothing?
- 20:01 CoCoA-5 Support #1471 (In Progress): Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- I have been postponing lots of issues which cannot be closed in the very immediate future.
I really hope we can get ... - 19:41 CoCoA-5 Support #1471: Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- If we do make a hurried release (as I recommend), should we include a "health warning" that it is a hasty release?
- 18:52 CoCoA-5 Support #1471: Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- I'm wondering whether we should release 5.3.4 as soon as practicable... otherwise I doubt I'll be able to help make a...
- 19:57 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
- I do not want to lose this, but there is never time... grrr!
- 19:51 CoCoA-5 Feature #1549: Add sagbi package
- Either do it fast for 5.3.4, or postpone to next release!
If you can write some simple doc quickly, we get the benef... - 19:48 CoCoA-5 Design #929: Clean up CoCoALibSupplement
- This is one of those "tedious but necessary tasks" for which it is almost impossible to find time.
So postponing....... - 19:47 CoCoA-5 Design #474: Eliminate package BinRepr
- Postponing once again.... we must eventually actually do this!
- 19:44 CoCoA-5 Design #1407 (Feedback): Tagged values (Hilbert Series)
- The comments suggest that this issue is essentially fixed.. so I have advanced the status to feedback.
- 19:40 CoCoA-5 Bug #1294 (Closed): CoCoA-5 tests may fail even if executed correctly
- No complaints in several months... must be OK.
Closing!
- 19:37 CoCoA-5 Bug #1443 (Closed): Illegal instruction
- This issue has been dormant for 2 years. I suppose whatever the problem was has gone away.
Closing!
- 19:35 CoCoA-5 Feature #1373: GFan also for Microsoft?
- A student (Nico Mexis) here in Passau has reported succeeding getting GFan working on Microsoft.
How to find time to... - 19:32 CoCoA-5 Bug #946: Function "ideal" evaluates the argument twice
- Can we close this issue? If not, postpone it!
- 19:30 CoCoA-5 Design #1504: OnlineHelp: XMLFileName
- I suppose the current status must be acceptable. No problems have been reported for a year.
Close?
- 19:28 CoCoA-5 Support #1447: Manual entry for RandomLinearForm
- Is this issue now resolved satisfactorily?
I guess so. If so, close it!
- 19:24 CoCoA-5 Support #1214: CoCoAManual: ensure that LaTeX compilation is "clean"
- Is this issue acceptably resolved? Close now?
- 19:14 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- So that we do not lose what has been done....
I suggest making the existing code into an official package; we should... - 16:53 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- What is the future of this package?
Florian is now rather busy with other things, so cannot in the foreseeable futur... - 19:10 CoCoA-5 Feature #606: Evaluate in ring operator (was called :: in CoCoA-4)
- Is this resolved to a satisfactory degree? I think @BringIn@ and @RingElem(P, string)@ cover most use cases.
Can we... - 19:07 CoCoA-5 Bug #1552: subst: not checking args properly
- The impl is rather messy.
I suppose the bus is not so terribly bad: it has not (apparently) caused trouble, and the ... - 19:03 CoCoA-5 Bug #1651 (Closed): SEGV subsets ??
- Too much stress to keep this open any longer. I'm pretty sure it is fixed now (and faster too).
Let the users do th...
02 Feb 2022
- 22:36 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- I have a first version with modulus. I think it is probably faster, but still impressively slow :-/
I'll wait a bit... - 20:52 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- To be ale to tackle non-trivial examples, it would be very helpful to have a way of reducing polynomials modulo any c...
- 20:17 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- I have done some cleaning in the code, and have added a @SortBy@ to the list of pairs.
It seems to make the code run... - 16:49 CoCoA-5 Feature #1272 (In Progress): Groebner Bases over ZZ
- What is the status of this issue?
Is the latest version of the code above more-or-less ready to be included in a rel... - 20:19 CoCoALib Feature #1635 (In Progress): NR for polys with coeffs in PID
- There is probably an implementation in the "Gbasis over ZZ" package: see issue #1272.
- 11:16 CoCoALib Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- Oh joy!
Have fun if you decide to document functions whose name contain an underscore: LaTeX gives its usual crypt... - 10:48 CoCoALib Design #1655 (Resolved): Remove ability to compile CoCoALib against UNINSTALLED gmp?
- I have updated the doc, and checked in everything.
Hope Anna can check on her machine soon.
- 10:24 CoCoALib Feature #1657 (New): Improve CertifyNotPower
- In @NumTheory-root.C@ improve the impl of @CertifyNotPower@ to cover case where small prime divides (check multiplic...
31 Jan 2022
- 22:12 CoCoALib Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- I have now implemented *@FactorINT@*, *@FactorINT_TrialDiv@* and *@FactorINT_PollardRho@*.
@SmoothFactor@ is now o... - 17:52 CoCoALib Design #1653: Discriminant: return value
- The old impl is still in @coclib.cpkg5@ but renamed to @discriminant_old@. I'll delete it soon (after some more test...
- 17:49 CoCoA-5 Bug #1651 (Resolved): SEGV subsets ??
- I have modified the impl of @SubsetsN@ in @combinatoria.cpkg5@ so that it handles 2-subsets specially (avoiding recur...
29 Jan 2022
- 17:06 CoCoALib Design #1653 (Resolved): Discriminant: return value
- There are now 2 @resultant@ functions and 2 @discriminant@ functions(in each case with or without specified indet).
... - 17:03 CoCoALib Bug #1656 (Feedback): SEGV in resultant
- The problem was in some unrefined code for computing subresultant sequences.
Now it is more robust.
- 15:22 CoCoALib Bug #1656 (Closed): SEGV in resultant
- A quick way to SEGV:...
28 Jan 2022
- 17:34 CoCoALib Support #1592: Normaliz 3.8.10
- Winfried pointed that I'd made a typo (now fixed).
A new version (normaliz-3.9.2) should be appearing in the near fu... - 12:39 CoCoALib Support #1592 (Closed): Normaliz 3.8.10
- All seems to be fine even with Normaliz-3.9.1.
- 17:30 CoCoALib Design #1653: Discriminant: return value
- Since @resultant@ is closely related to @discriminant@ they should have compatible behaviour.
This includes presumab... - 12:56 CoCoALib Design #1653 (In Progress): Discriminant: return value
- Anna agrees with what I'd like to do.
Should something similar be done for @resultant@ too? - 14:35 CoCoALib Design #1627 (Feedback): Use keyword "delete" for deleted functions
- 13:08 CoCoALib Feature #1633 (Feedback): Make polynomial multiplication interruptible?
- 12:41 CoCoALib Design #1655: Remove ability to compile CoCoALib against UNINSTALLED gmp?
- I have just compiled successfully.
Need to update doc in ExternalLibs-GMP.txt
Anna will check in her machine soo... - 11:03 CoCoALib Design #1655 (In Progress): Remove ability to compile CoCoALib against UNINSTALLED gmp?
- I think the only real change needed is in the script @configuration/gmp-find-hdr.sh@
Perhaps it should print out a h... - 10:45 CoCoALib Design #1655: Remove ability to compile CoCoALib against UNINSTALLED gmp?
- JAA now thinks that what we do is wrong rather than "clever".
Unless AMB objects, we should make this change quickly.
- 10:43 CoCoALib Design #1655 (Closed): Remove ability to compile CoCoALib against UNINSTALLED gmp?
- This proposal is to modify the configure script so that it does not accept an *uninstalled* GMP.
A use who does not ... - 10:31 CoCoALib Support #1591: Compilation of Normaliz
- I have just checked, and observe that there is now Normaliz 3.9.1.
I shall try compiling.
*UPDATE* Compiled with... - 10:25 CoCoALib Feature #1654: New function IsInSymbols
- Anna, could you please describe more explicitly what you are proposing?
I am not sure I understand from the issue de... - 08:51 CoCoALib Feature #1654 (New): New function IsInSymbols
- We misuse *@AreDistinct@* to test whether a symbol is in a PolyRing.
The advantage is that *@AreDistinct@* sees just... - 10:22 CoCoALib Design #1649 (In Progress): Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C
- It seems that Anna accidentally reset the progress for this issue... maybe she had two browser tabs on the same issue...
- 09:29 CoCoALib Design #1649: Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> syz
even though this was the start of this topic, Syz of a vector should go in submod... - 08:37 CoCoALib Design #1649: Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C
- I think we should call this SparsePolyOps-VectorRingElem.C, or SparsePolyOps-RingElems.C (too subtle, I fear)
ad... - 08:30 CoCoALib Design #1649: Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C
- In @SparsePolyOps-RingElem@ we also have:
FindReducerIndex
ReduceActiveLM
reduce
Should these go in @SparsePo... - 08:23 CoCoALib Design #1649: Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C
- I think we should call this SparsePolyOps-VectorRingElem.C, or SparsePolyOps-RingElems.C (too subtle, I fear)
ad... - 08:00 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- Following KISS strategy, I would avoid (possibly) costly operations: e.g. interreduction, duplicates (think of a mono...
27 Jan 2022
- 19:25 CoCoALib Feature #1652: Add LM to cocoalib ?
- Florian Walsh wrote:
> That makes sense. I was implementing DivAlg which seems to exist only in a cocoa package.
... - 14:19 CoCoALib Feature #1652: Add LM to cocoalib ?
- We really need to come up with a way of making the CoCoALib documentation friendlier.
I am reasonably happy with how... - 14:02 CoCoALib Feature #1652: Add LM to cocoalib ?
- That makes sense. I was implementing DivAlg which seems to exist only in a cocoa package.
I should probably use the ... - 11:55 CoCoALib Feature #1652: Add LM to cocoalib ?
- The reason why we do not have @LM@ in cocoalib is that we prefer not to make it handy ;-)
Sounds like a joke, but ... - 18:43 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- Since we do have some doubts about what exactly "cleaning" means, and whether we like the idea, I propose the followi...
- 18:36 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- After brief consideration, I have decided to keep in this issue discussion related to what "cleaning generators" migh...
- 15:01 CoCoALib Design #1653: Discriminant: return value
- @discriminant@ is actually two functions: univariate inputs, and multivariate input with specified indet.
The multiv... - 14:54 CoCoALib Design #1653 (Closed): Discriminant: return value
- To which ring should the return value of @Discriminant@ belong?...
- 14:52 CoCoA-5 Feature #1644: Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- The idea seems reasonable, but what names should we use?
* @AsINT_symm@ or @AsINT_Symm@
* @AsINT_NonNeg@ or @AsINT... - 14:27 CoCoA-5 Support #1650: Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon
- How about *@[[command incomplete]]@*?
Though that does read rather like an error message... - 14:24 CoCoALib Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- I suggest making @SmoothFactor@ obsolescent, and just forward the call to @FactorINT_TrialDiv@.
I think I prefer @... - 12:29 CoCoALib Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- John Abbott wrote:
> * *@FactorINT_TrialDiv(N,pmax)@* trial division upto @pmax@
> Opinions?
maybe just *@Facto...
26 Jan 2022
- 16:11 CoCoALib Feature #1652 (In Progress): Add LM to cocoalib ?
- To compute the leading monomial of a polynomial in cocoalib I need to call ...
- 15:28 CoCoA-5 Bug #1651: SEGV subsets ??
- On my Mac I get...
- 12:53 CoCoA-5 Bug #1651 (In Progress): SEGV subsets ??
- I have just used @ulimit@ to increase my stacksize limit, and now I get "too many recursions":...
- 15:17 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- John Abbott wrote:
> We could also have two ways of creating ideals: _e.g._ @ideal(L)@ and @ideal_DoNotCleanGens(L)@... - 14:19 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- I like the "separate concept" of "generator cleaning", and it would be nice to make it available as a function.
I am... - 14:11 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- I have just spoken to Florian about this issue.
His initial reaction was that he wanted @gens(ideal(L))@ to be an id... - 12:46 CoCoALib Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- Another proposal:
* *@FactorINT(N,TimeOut)@* tries both @TrialDiv@ and @PollardRho@; maybe also does @IsProbPrime@ ...
25 Jan 2022
- 16:32 CoCoA-5 Bug #1651: SEGV subsets ??
- On Julian's computer (Linux, CoCoA-5.3.3b), it gave a controlled CoCoA-5 error: "too many recursive calls" (or simila...
- 09:42 CoCoA-5 Bug #1651 (Closed): SEGV subsets ??
- This was a surprise:...
24 Jan 2022
- 20:42 CoCoA-5 Support #1650 (In Progress): Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon
- The following could be confusing:...
- 10:04 CoCoALib Design #1647 (In Progress): Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- Potentially related to this discussion...
We can create a zero ideal by supplying an empty list of gens; however, th... - 09:07 CoCoALib Slug #1646: radical: could be more clever
- I think that, along the same line -- actually in the previous line ;-)
we should change ...
21 Jan 2022
- 13:06 CoCoALib Design #1649 (Closed): Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C
- Add file SparsePolyOps-vector.C with functions interreduced (now in SparsePolyOps-interreduced.C) and syz(vector) (new)
- 13:04 CoCoALib Support #1612 (In Progress): Merge the doc file RadicalMembership.txt into ideal.txt
- Review code in @SparsePolyOps-RadicalMembership.C@.
Rename file to @SparsePolyOps-ideal-RadicalMembership.C@ (als... - 12:22 CoCoALib Feature #1619: Make saturate available in CoCoALib
- In ideal.C we have *@intersect@* and *@colon@*.
We should add *@saturate@* in the same way.
(similarly, we should... - 12:14 CoCoALib Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- Drastic change: @FactorBound, FactorIter@ or @FactorINTBound, FactorINTIter@ or @FactorINT_bound, FactorINT_iter@?
- 12:12 CoCoALib Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- Anna thinks a name closer to @SmoothFactor@ would be more appropriate because the fns both take 2 args...
No final d... - 11:19 CoCoALib Feature #1645: Implement monic0(f) for the case monic(0)?
- Anna says it is OK to have these "dirty" functions because their names are strange.
She suggests that they each have... - 10:57 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- Anna has some doubts.
So far we had the simple rule that @L = gens(ideal(L))@.
Also the fn *@SyzOfGens@* is defin... - 10:38 CoCoALib Slug #1646 (Closed): radical: could be more clever
- 10:27 CoCoA-5 Feature #1644 (In Progress): Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- Anna suggests these names: *@AsINT_Symm@* and *@AsINT_NonNeg@* (because @AsINT_LeastNonNeg@ is too long)
The idea i... - 10:12 CoCoA-5 Feature #1648 (New): ApproxSolve and RationalSolve take different input
- ApproxSolve expects an ideal (0-dim) and RationalSolve a list of polynnomials.
Choose which one we want, and modify ... - 10:10 CoCoA-5 Bug #1640 (Closed): MinSubsetOfGens does not find min subset
- We had effectively already taken into account the comment 5 above.
Anna has just changed the code slightly to orde...
20 Jan 2022
- 20:32 CoCoA-5 Bug #1640: MinSubsetOfGens does not find min subset
- Unfortunately I have lost the specific example (but I suppose a new one could easily be created).
I did notice the f... - 20:28 CoCoALib Slug #1646: radical: could be more clever
- I have checked in my changes (and asked Anna to check them).
I have added tests (CoCoA-5 @exbugs@... currently @radi... - 19:31 CoCoALib Slug #1646 (Resolved): radical: could be more clever
- The problem was that @myGBasisByHomog@ tried to homogenize all generators without checking whether they are zero.
... - 19:14 CoCoALib Slug #1646 (In Progress): radical: could be more clever
- The source code for @radical@ is still in package @radical.ckpg5@.
If the ideal is 0-dim then the C++ function *@r... - 20:05 CoCoALib Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- Currently my prototype function is called *@factor_PollardRho@*.
It takes 2 args: @N@ to be factorized (non-zero int... - 19:58 CoCoALib Feature #1645 (In Progress): Implement monic0(f) for the case monic(0)?
- Let's try to make a list of possible "0" functions, and their expected behaviour if given 0 as argument.
* @monic0(f... - 19:40 CoCoALib Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- This change does mean that the following could give @false@:...
- 19:35 CoCoALib Design #1647 (Closed): Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
- Should ideals suppress zero generators?
Currently we have:... - 19:02 CoCoA-5 Feature #1644: Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- I have just given a demo to my students of using CRT to reconstruct a large integer value.
The demo happened to work... - 15:56 CoCoALib Feature #1619: Make saturate available in CoCoALib
- To my eye that syntax looks quite ugly.
Why can I not just write *@saturate(I,J)@*?
What does @MakeUnique@ do? And... - 11:51 CoCoALib Feature #1619: Make saturate available in CoCoALib
- It seems like I need to call _MakeUnique(I)->mySaturate(J)_ to compute the saturation of I wrt. to J.
17 Jan 2022
- 13:48 CoCoALib Slug #1646: radical: could be more clever
- Bug originally reported by Florian Walsh. Also:...
- 12:07 CoCoALib Slug #1646 (Closed): radical: could be more clever
- Who would have predicted the following behaviour?...
- 09:44 CoCoALib Feature #1645: Implement monic0(f) for the case monic(0)?
- John Abbott wrote:
> Right now I would be inclined to change the manual.
> I am not yet convinced that @monic0@ is ... - 08:49 CoCoALib Feature #1645: Implement monic0(f) for the case monic(0)?
- Right now I would be inclined to change the manual.
I am not yet convinced that @monic0@ is a good idea. Can you co... - 08:44 CoCoALib Feature #1645 (In Progress): Implement monic0(f) for the case monic(0)?
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