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From 23 Oct 2016 to 21 Nov 2016
21 Nov 2016
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18:01 Feature #979: SmallestNonDivisor -- new fn
- After a brief discussion on email, I think it is best to write on redmine.
Robbiano proposes a function to find the ... -
- In the context of the "universal denominator" for a polynomial ideal, it could be useful to find the first prime whic...
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- I have changed the format of the error messages in the existing shell scripts: the script name is now placed last (an...
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- OK, we can try with the script (base)name at the end of the message. It shouldn't take too long to make the change.
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14:08 Support #976: configure: auxiliary scripts should be consistent about error messages
- My preferred is...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Another idea is to have a configuration flag for "developers" so that the errors from scripts s... -
- Another idea is to have a configuration flag for "developers" so that the errors from scripts say which script gave t...
18 Nov 2016
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- I have now changed the call to @CheckForInterrupt@ in @TmpGReductor@ to the simple call that I had expected to see, a...
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- Another possibile one-line format could put the script name in brackets somehow:
(first line is the current format)
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- One suggestion for the format of the error messages is to use 2 lines, perhaps like this:...
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- While unformity is nice, it is not so important if the existing scripts work well enough ==> low priority.
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- There are numerous auxiliary shell scripts (in directory @configuration/@).
They do not have a uniform way of commun... -
- If I recall well, with the @clang@ compiler there is a compile-time error with the platform-specific flags from the "...
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- I have updated all the auxiliary scripts to use temp dirs in @/tmp@ following the naming convention suggested above. ...
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- Also done the @gfan@ scripts (and fixed some more tiny problems in the @gmp@ scripts).
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- I have now adopted the following naming convention for the tmp dirs:
*@/tmp/CoCoALib-config-abbott-2016-11-18/gmp-cx...
17 Nov 2016
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- I have changed the @gmp-XYZ.sh@ scripts... configuration still works on my machine (I think).
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- Some scripts need to know where the *@ExternalLibs@* directory is located.
I think the simplest way to pass in this ... -
- Using @/tmp@ for temporary directories is very tempting, but must be done safely (_e.g._ cannot have two users trying...
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- I have modified the script @gmp-cxx-flags.sh@. A quick test on my machine passed (well, the first few tests didn't p...
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- I hope to resolve this while I'm here, and can see what happens on Gereon's cloud.
Of course, it is tedious having... -
- Gereon had a strange problem. He was compiling on a cloud VM, and got strange error messages about the platform-spec...
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- This should really be under CoCoA-5, but I hope that @RealRoots@ will soon be migrated to C++ (see #440).
My curre... -
- The fn @RealRoots@ lets a user specify an interval in which to look for real roots.
If the initial ends points are n... -
- Here is a possible design:
* user deals with a smart-pointer class (_e.g._ like ideal)
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- Here are some possible applications:
* converting polynomials to/from CoCoALib (_e.g._ other library may keep terms ... -
- Just adding some *keywords* to this issue (so it is easier to find via redmine search).
*Summation*, *summer*, *summ... -
- I will write GenRepr for poly/ideal leaving the marginal cases to cocoa-5 code.
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- Clearly it was not possible to have it by summer 2016 :-)
@Anna: would it be easy to add?
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- Here is a possible way to implement the idea in comment 2.
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- Since the feature being exhibited in the examples is called @SparsePolyIter@, it makes more sense that the files be c...
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- There are examples for using @SparsePolyIter@; why are the files they are in called @ex-PolyIterator@?
@ex-PolyIte...
14 Nov 2016
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- Cane we have something more compact like this?...
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- I have made some changes to @Interpreter.C@ (mostly adding catch commands for @InterruptReceived@).
I have not (ye... -
- In issue #714 I had guessed that the only place I needed to catch @InterruptReceived@ was around line 2678 of @Interp...
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- As far as I can see, the CoCoA-5 interpreter needs to be modified so that it catches both @CoCoA::ErrorInfo@ and @CoC...
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- Looking at the call to @CheckForInterrupt@ in @GReductor::myReduceCurrentSPoly@ (around line 760 of @TmpGReductor.C@)...
11 Nov 2016
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- I suggest proceeding with definition (a):
* it is already implemented
* it is easy to explain/describe
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- I prefer (c) to (b) perhaps because it is sparser.
(a) and (c) clearly do not give the same term-ordering though t... -
- (similar for ElimHomogMat)
What should @ElimMat([2,3], mat([[1,5,2]]));@ return? (now it is (a))... -
- I have added the relevant line to all instances of @operator<<@ (for @ostream@, but not for OpenMath output fns).
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- I have just checked in a first impl of "verbose".... including doc and an example (but no test).
Perhaps we can tr... -
- With reference to comment 6, and the example there.
I now think it would be better to require that the programmer ...
10 Nov 2016
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- I constructed the example in comment 5 by taking a sparse polynomial (in this case @z^30-1@) which has a factorizatio...
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- Here is another example which rather suggests that the problem is quite difficult in general:...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> This makes me think that it has effectively computed @(x+y+z+1)^498@ and then discovered that a... -
- On the fixed linux box here it took about 210s to compute @NF(f,I)@.
This makes me think that it has effectively c... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> When computing a @NF(x^999*y^999,I)@ we can use either GBasis element for the reduction.
> CoC... -
- When computing a @NF(x^999*y^999,I)@ we can use either GBasis element for the reduction.
CoCoA ought to prefer reduc... -
- Here is a silly example where NF takes longer than it should:...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> I am concerned that they may make wasteful copies of the elements of the list/vector.
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- I am not yet convinced that @first@ and @last@ are good ideas for C++.
What exactly are the hoped-for semantics? ... -
- Equivalent to @first,last@:...
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- In CoCoA-5 we often first and last for making sub-lists.
This is tedious to translate into C++.
Make good C++ docum... -
- I have tried a quick experiment, and can confirm that (on my computer) creating an @ofstream@ with a default ctor (_i...
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- A reasonable development strategy could be to resolve #931 (verbose for GBasis) using the ideas suggested here.
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- I tried interrupting a long gbasis computation (as part of one of Mario's long radical examples). The computation ha...
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- I see that there is an involutive saturation.
How does that work in general? should we use that instead of GBases?
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- I have modified ComputeSaturation using the factorization (repeats saturation on the factors).
I don't know if that'... -
- I implemented another naive algorithm (elim(h, I+(f*h-1))), but seems even worse.
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- saturate is slow (naive algorithm: repeated colon).
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- The motivation behind this issue is the idea of using an @ostream@ with its bad-bit set to simulate @/dev/null@.
T... -
- Functions for outputting values should return immediately if the output stream is bad.
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- This was done (up to 4 args): 2014/12/02
07 Nov 2016
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- Here is another idea (perhaps not so very KISS).
*NOTE* see my revision in note 10
At the start of a fn in whic... -
- I was thinking of having a *single* global variable for controlling verbosity, rather than many different names for d...
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- For the specific case you mentioned:
in MinPoly.C set... -
- A possible design would be to have a global variable containing the verbosity level; so this would presumably be gove...
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- Sometimes it could be helpful to have a verbose mode to understand what is happening inside a long computation (_e.g....
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- Might it make sense to have a general "verbose" mechanism for CoCoALib?
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- What exactly does multiplicity do?
I made the mistake of trying to compute @multiplicity(I)@ instead of @multiplic... -
- Renamed @AreGensSquareFreeMonomial@ into @AreGensSqFreeMonomial@.
Added to CoCoA-5 (with doc) and to obsolescent.C... -
- I have renamed *@IsRadical@* (for @PPMonoidElem@)to *@IsSqFree@*. The old fn has been moved to @obsolescent.C@ (see ...
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- This was resolved a year ago. I have just performed the test suggested in comment 1, and there are no warnings (the ...
05 Nov 2016
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- Also added *@doc/txt/obsolescent.txt@* (with relevant changes to the index files).
Perhaps Anna could check what ...
04 Nov 2016
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- Added @test-obsolescent.C@, @ex-obsolescent.C@ and added doc to @GlobalManager.txt@.
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- Thanks, Anna! :-)
Checked in.
I did apparently lie slightly: the user has to add the include directive *and* a... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> Is it really too much to ask the user to add just one line to their file: *@#include "CoCoA/obs... -
- I really do not like the idea of including obsolescent fns by default: in what sense would they be obsolescent?
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Perhaps we do not need any preprocessor flag. What about the following approach?
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- Perhaps we do not need any preprocessor flag. What about the following approach?
The file *@library.H@* does not ...
03 Nov 2016
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- I prefer not to have so many preprocessor flags. We do need 1 to make the contents of @obsolescent.H@ visible/invisi...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> My preference is that obsolescent fns remain invisible by default; the user must do something t... -
- I have checkedin the relevant files. The new files are called *@obsolescent.H@* and *@obsolescent.C@*.
CoCoALib i... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> I have a first implementation (but called the file @obsolete.C@ since I find "obsolete" easier ... -
- I have a first implementation (but called the file @obsolete.C@ since I find "obsolete" easier to type than "obsolesc...
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Here are some ideas about how we might achieve a reasonable design:
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- Currently @ReducedGBasis@ is implemented in CoCoA_5.
Add it to CoCoALib, and add the flag @HasReducedGBasis@.
Suppo...
02 Nov 2016
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- Here are some ideas about how we might achieve a reasonable design:
* obsolete/obsolescent fns go into 2 files @obso... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> *NOTE* the special fn for PPs is still called *@IsRadical@*; should we rename it?
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- John Abbott wrote:
> I believe I have fixed the SEGV bug. Checked in new version of @DUPFp.C@. @Anna: could you ch... -
- I believe I have fixed the SEGV bug. Checked in new version of @DUPFp.C@. @Anna: could you check? :-)
*NOTE* p... -
- Reducing the example. These give segv:...
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- While comparing various implementations of radical(0-dim) I found this, unexpected for me:
@IsSqFree@ is quite fast ... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> Do you plan to add @MultiplicityQuot@ and @DimQuot@ to CoCoA-5?
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- Do you plan to add @MultiplicityQuot@ and @DimQuot@ to CoCoA-5?
If one computes @dim(P/I)@, does that actually creat... -
- Even though I invented it, I do not much like the name *@TidyGens@*...
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- Also implemented the member function @IHaveGBasis@
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- I implemented it.
It took a remarkably long time mostly for choosing the name and deciding where to put it.
In fact...
27 Oct 2016
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- Done. Still need documentation.
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- @multiplicity@ and @dim@ are implemented in cocoa-5.
Bring them to cocoalib.
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- I am still puzzled about how best to handle the trivial cases (0x0 and 1x1 matrices).
The relevant code is only 2 ... -
- The problem was simply that the generic Bariess code failed (on the very last line) when given a 0x0 matrix.
I hav... -
- The following triggers a SEGV:...
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- I have added a test (which revealed issue #956).
I would check in, but EduRoam is being more than usually obstructiv... -
- Perhaps the function is not that widely usable, but it was handy for something I was doing, so I made it publicly ava...
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- Write a new function which produces random unimodular matrices of integers.
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- How to know if the GBasis has already been computed? there is a member flag (myGBasisIsValid), but we should have a ...
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- What is the status of this issue?
I believe the code is there (and presumably has been active for some time).
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- It make sense for the ordering matrices to be over @ZZ@; for @IdentityMat@ it is useful to be able to specify the rin...
26 Oct 2016
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- In CoCoA-5 we have @obsolescent.cpkg5@, a package with all the functions declared obsolescent, for example if they ha...
25 Oct 2016
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- While testing @IsSqFree@ I observed that CoCoALib is very slow at computing @gcd(f,f')@ where @f = (x^2+1)*(x^27-x)@ ...
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- I have checked in code for the new fn *@IsSqFree@* (incl. tests and doc).
It is not complete:
* currently gives e...
24 Oct 2016
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- A function which tests whether a value is square-free is probably going to be quite similar to a function which deter...
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- Currently there is a function called @IsRadical(PP)@ for a PPMonoidElem.
Should it be called @IsSquareFree@?
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- Write function IsSquareFree (or IsSqFr, or IsSqFree) for a RingElem
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- I like the idea of a fn @IsSqFree@; it certainly could be faster than testing equality with the radical (and also cle...
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- After spending some time thinking and writing, I realized that we would need a
@IsSqFree(f)@ which could be consider... -
- After some more reading, it seems that the usual structure is @QQ(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)[u1, u2,...]@ where the expressi...
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