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23 Feb 2024

12:39 Bug #1579 (Closed): Readexpr/RingElem: unhelpful error message when input is wrong
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Still to do: check other cases.
I cannot remember what I meant.
Now seems pretty goo...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:29 Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
Implement special version for monomial ideals Anna Maria Bigatti
12:28 Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> there is a new problem (in test-exbugs.C).
> [...]
Fixed, it was an "off-by-one" err...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:27 Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
there is a new problem (in test-exbugs.C).... Anna Maria Bigatti
12:28 Bug #1779 (Closed): Radical error with lex (again)
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:41 Bug #1779: Radical error with lex (again)
I made a new issue for implementing and running the tests.
Closing this one ... hoping non errors will come from the...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:07 Feature #379: Iter for subsets/tuples
*ANNA* will test this over the next week :-)
John Abbott
11:39 Support #1782 (New): Make CoCoALib test file for radical
There is a file with some CoCoALib tests for radical in a funny format.
Clean it up.
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:38 Slug #1754 (Closed): IsSqFree poorly implemented
John Abbott
11:34 Support #1265 (Closed): Unregistered TXT files in doc
John Abbott

19 Feb 2024

21:28 Bug #1661: Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
Winfried sent me the following message by email:... John Abbott

16 Feb 2024

21:31 Feature #1513: Better test for univariate-ness (and better conversion)
Assuming we do implement this, what should its UI be?
Do we already have a function which converts from @SparsePolyR...
John Abbott
21:22 Design #1735 (In Progress): PushFront/PushBack without checks?
I have just tried disabling the checks inside *@PushFront@* and *@PushBack@*. There was no difference when calling @... John Abbott
10:23 Design #1735: PushFront/PushBack without checks?
Surely worth a try.
@PushFront_nocheck@?
I could imagine cases when this might be used (homomorphisms preserving or...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:00 Design #1735: PushFront/PushBack without checks?
As I stated in the comment just above: I should test whether a non-checking impl would really make it faster. Maybe ... John Abbott
21:05 Bug #1661 (In Progress): Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
Ah, thanks for making me aware of this issue. Actually, recently I put my instructions online for exactly that.
I ha...
Nico Mexis
20:54 Bug #1661: Microsoft: cannot compile with signal handling
I have added Nico Mexis as a watcher. He has successfully built CoCoA-5 for Microsoft, so may have some useful insig... John Abbott
20:53 Feature #1670: Build also dynamic/shared library for CoCoALib?
Here are some posibly useful links: (I searched for *@libtool tutorial@*
* @https://stackoverflow.com/questions/446...
John Abbott
20:47 Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
I have confirmed that Anna's 0-dim check makes it much faster. I have added a link to issue #1103 which is about pse... John Abbott
16:06 Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
John Abbott wrote:
> As far as I can see *@MinPowerInIdeal@* is already implemented, using the method Anna described...
Anna Maria Bigatti
20:44 Design #1642 (In Progress): interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
I have made a first impl. Anna is sceptical, partly because the code behaves differently depending on the coefficien... John Abbott
17:02 Design #1642: interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
The source code seems to be in *@SparsePolyOps-vector.C@* around line 32.
John Abbott
10:19 Design #1642: interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
John Abbott wrote:
> Would we also want to have @interreduced@ work when the coeff ring is @ZZ@?
Not until someon...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:42 Design #1642: interreduce: make monic if over finite field?
Would we also want to have @interreduced@ work when the coeff ring is @ZZ@?
If so, we need to think about the semant...
John Abbott
18:19 Design #849 (In Progress): Cleanup MinPoly code
In 8 years we have never really needed the proposed new API, so we may as well *reject* this issue (as Anna suggested... John Abbott
18:05 Feature #813: Implement "elim" in CoCoALib
The syntax should be compatible with whatever we use for @ElimMat@, I presume.
Well, there is an important differenc...
John Abbott
18:00 Feature #1763 (Rejected): implement ideal(R) for zero ideal, with no generators?
No longer needed because @ideal(zero(R))@ now gives ideal in R with no generators. Anna Maria Bigatti
17:51 Slug #1739 (Resolved): IsHomog for ideals
check if there is a "homog" flag to be set Anna Maria Bigatti
17:41 Feature #645 (Rejected): Automatic mapping of RingElem: user selectable at run-time (GlobalManager?)
We have auto mapping in many places without any real problems.
If the user disables auto mapping then this may cause...
John Abbott
17:30 Slug #1394: Oddly slow GBasis computation (slow final cleanup)
Try... Anna Maria Bigatti
09:55 Feature #1472: Idea for for loops
While it can be difficult to say much positive about Julia, it does offer a convenient way of using "iterators" (and ... John Abbott
09:46 Bug #1575: DynamicBitset missing arg checks
There are a few functions whose name has a suffix like *@_NoArgChecks@*.
OK, a quick grep produces just one such pub...
John Abbott
09:33 Support #1672: Documentation: a good model to follow?
Here is a list of features it would be nice to offer in the CoCoALib documentation:
* cross-references (xrefs)
* sm...
John Abbott
09:24 Feature #1748: July 2023
What is the status of this issue? How much did we achieve?
John Abbott

15 Feb 2024

22:35 Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
As far as I can see *@MinPowerInIdeal@* is already implemented, using the method Anna described above.
See near line...
John Abbott
16:41 Slug #1569: IsInRadical too slow (test-RadicalMembership)
John Abbott wrote:
> The "stupid approach" gets the answer in 10s (on my Linux laptop).
Even faster like this.
<...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:32 Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
Fixed the sum I + ideal(1)
Added check also for I + ideal(x, x-1) (when ideal @HasGBasis@)...
Anna Maria Bigatti

09 Feb 2024

10:36 Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
John Abbott wrote:
> After brief consideration, I have decided to keep in this issue discussion related to what "cle...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:13 Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
I remind you of the function *@IsConstant@* which should be helpful in this case (if IsField(CoeffRing)).
John Abbott
10:09 Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
John Abbott wrote:
> Here is an example where the resulting gens could clearly be cleaned up:
> [...]
This is st...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:29 Feature #1206: syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
OK to require that input to *@syz@* are all non-zero.
Also OK for a new fn which accepts zero -- not sure how this s...
John Abbott
10:03 Feature #1206: syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
Should we make @SyzOfGens@ obsolescent? does it do anything more than calling @syz(gens(I))@?
(apart from fixing th...
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:51 Feature #1206: syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
This is my suggestion: implement a new function @syz0@ which allows 0s in the input (giving them conventional weights... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:38 Feature #1206 (In Progress): syz, SyzOfGens: which shifts for zero?
Currently we have decided to forbid generator 0 in ideals (#1647), so @SyzOfGens@ will never find a 0, keeping in min... Anna Maria Bigatti

08 Feb 2024

22:08 Feature #1778 (In Progress): Homogenizer
I have implemented @homogenizer@ in OSCAR, and am happy with the interface it gives. Also some others are using it, ... John Abbott
21:55 Feature #202: MatrixView/function for viewing a single row or column (RowMat, ColMat)
What is the status of this issue? With luck we can soon close it!
John Abbott
21:51 Support #1687 (In Progress): Release CoCoALib 0.99850
John Abbott
21:37 Feature #379 (Feedback): Iter for subsets/tuples
I have now added a first impl of *@TupleIter@* following the idea behind @SubsetIter@, _i.e._ the tuples are from the... John Abbott

07 Feb 2024

11:26 Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
Modified ... Anna Maria Bigatti

06 Feb 2024

16:47 Bug #1779 (Feedback): Radical error with lex (again)
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> John Abbott wrote:
> > It would be easy to allow the factorize to return a result if th...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:12 Bug #1779: Radical error with lex (again)
John Abbott wrote:
> It would be easy to allow the factorize to return a result if the input is a non-zero constant....
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:51 Feature #1780: radical for ideals in SparsePolyRing: code in C++
Now the test from #1390 is fast (in C++), so I re-activated it. Anna Maria Bigatti
10:17 Feature #1780: radical for ideals in SparsePolyRing: code in C++
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> It should all go through @myTestIsRadical@, ... and now it isn't (I had forced the funct...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:10 Feature #1780: radical for ideals in SparsePolyRing: code in C++
The package was first translated by Alice Moallemy, then fixed by Nicolas Jagersma (2023).
Now it's been officially ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:01 Feature #1780 (Closed): radical for ideals in SparsePolyRing: code in C++
Port the code from the CoCoa-5 package radical.cpkg5 into CoCoALib Anna Maria Bigatti
08:48 Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
Should we also have that @ideal(zero(R))@ has empty list of generators?
I think so.
And that would be handy, if we ...
Anna Maria Bigatti

05 Feb 2024

21:29 Bug #1779 (In Progress): Radical error with lex (again)
It would be easy to allow the factorize to return a result if the input is a non-zero constant.
I suppose I made it ...
John Abbott
18:32 Bug #1779: Radical error with lex (again)
first bug fixed.
New bug:...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:57 Bug #1779 (Closed): Radical error with lex (again)
This problem resurfaced now that radical is in C++.... Anna Maria Bigatti
12:21 Slug #1739: IsHomog for ideals
Fixed. Now checking if gens are monomial, then if gens are homogeneous.... Anna Maria Bigatti

03 Feb 2024

19:56 Bug #1361 (Closed): Compilation fails when compiling with libgsl
John Abbott
18:10 Bug #1361: Compilation fails when compiling with libgsl
Hi John, the new version compiles without problems.
Florian Walsh

02 Feb 2024

20:34 Bug #1764: Verbosity messages: avoid printing BIG values
Here is a list of files which have been checked (so that we do not repeatedly check them):
* @ApproxPts2.C@
* *@END@*
John Abbott
20:21 Feature #1778: Homogenizer
The ctor for @homogenizer@ will create the extended polynomial ring.
What properties should this extended ring have?...
John Abbott
20:13 Feature #1778: Homogenizer
Following KISS, it is probably best to try the simple interface first.
If it works well, and we like it, then we can...
John Abbott
20:10 Feature #1778: Homogenizer
I am not yet sure of the details, but I am hoping that it can be used as in this example:... John Abbott
20:04 Feature #1778 (In Progress): Homogenizer
Here is a suggestion for a cleaner, simpler way to effect homogenization.
The main idea is to create a new type of o...
John Abbott
20:01 Design #1647: Suppress zero from ideal generators? Detect 1 and simplify generators?
Here is an example where the resulting gens could clearly be cleaned up:... John Abbott

01 Feb 2024

19:59 Slug #1737: Homogenization of an ideal with ZZ^1-grading
Anna, are you willing to investigate point (1): the implementation behaving cleverly if the term order is wdeg-compat... John Abbott
12:10 Slug #1737: Homogenization of an ideal with ZZ^1-grading
By Robbiano: No need to allow homogenization by an indet whose degree is not 1. Anna Maria Bigatti
11:04 Slug #1737: Homogenization of an ideal with ZZ^1-grading
(2) I think we should *not* provide homogenization by an indet whose degree is not 1, because this is not entirely tr... Anna Maria Bigatti
11:00 Slug #1737: Homogenization of an ideal with ZZ^1-grading
By Kreuzer-Robbiano: *Corollary 4.3.20*. It requires that P is positively graded. Anna Maria Bigatti
10:42 Design #1750: IdealOfPoints: allow duplicate points?
@MakeSet@ is OK for CoCoA-5 and *affine points.* In CoCoALib/C++ and/or with projective points it is not so simple.
...
John Abbott
10:17 Design #1750: IdealOfPoints: allow duplicate points?
The CoCoA-5 manual already says that the points must be distinct (as a quick reaction to the problem reported by puw... John Abbott
10:03 Design #1750 (In Progress): IdealOfPoints: allow duplicate points?
I'm more inclined to suggest @IdealOfPoints(R, MakeSet(pts))@ in the manual, if one wants to allow duplicates. Maybe... Anna Maria Bigatti
10:03 Design #1777: VerificationLevel: just 3? Low, high, guaranteed?
Currently we allow any non-negative machine integer as the "verification level", but there is no clear semantics.
John Abbott
09:50 Slug #1739: IsHomog for ideals
Could it be useful to have also *@IsHomog3@* which returns a @bool3@?
John Abbott
09:47 Slug #1739: IsHomog for ideals
Source is in @SparsePolyOps-ideal.C:908@ more or less John Abbott

31 Jan 2024

22:26 Feature #1197: IsZeroDet: new fn
There is some non-trivial code in *@MatrixOps-IsZeroDet.C@* developed from a project in Passau... John Abbott
22:16 Design #1750: IdealOfPoints: allow duplicate points?
Should we implement this? Or postpone it? Or reject it?
What is most natural?
Is it really a mistake to ask for...
John Abbott
22:14 Slug #1739 (In Progress): IsHomog for ideals
I say impl the suggestion in the main description: it should be very little code, and may make some computations fast... John Abbott
22:07 Slug #1737 (In Progress): Homogenization of an ideal with ZZ^1-grading
Yes, it would be possible to implement this, and perhaps not even too hard. *But why?*
When would it be useful? Is ...
John Abbott
22:02 Support #1665: Compilation on Windows: problems for normaliz
Is this still a problem? Maybe we can ask Nico?
John Abbott

25 Jan 2024

20:27 Design #1703 (Resolved): Threadsafety, multithreading: optional fn arg (or separate fn)
*SUMMARY*
Offering proper thread-safety is likely trickier than I had hoped, and probably decidedly more costly at r...
John Abbott
20:22 Design #1703: Threadsafety, multithreading: optional fn arg (or separate fn)
Anna reported compilation warnings with @clang@:
@std::mutex@ cannot be copied or moved, so attempting to have defau...
John Abbott
16:26 Bug #1579: Readexpr/RingElem: unhelpful error message when input is wrong
Still to do: check other cases.
I modified only @ReadExpr(string)@ and @ReadAtom@ (for symbol).
I prefer to documen...
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:21 Bug #1579: Readexpr/RingElem: unhelpful error message when input is wrong
I think I improved these error messages (hard to spot in string otherwise):... Anna Maria Bigatti
10:12 Bug #1579: Readexpr/RingElem: unhelpful error message when input is wrong
Here is another test case: @RingElem(R, "y(x)")@
Looks like a function call...
John Abbott
 

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