Hi Martin,
do you allow me to criticise your Guess implementation?
I was just looking up in hyperdoc, what the function "guess" is actually
doing.
Of course, I basically see only what is written here.
guess: List F -> GUESSRESULT
++ \spad{guess l} applies recursively \spadfun{guessRat} to the
++ successive differences and quotients of the list.
++ Default options as described in
++ \spadtype{GuessOptionFunctions0} are used.
OK, that does, of course, not tell something about how I have to
interpret the output for
guess [1,1,2,3,5,8]
s - 1
n - 1 6
--+ --+
(2) [ > > [f(s ): (- s + 1)f(s ) + s - 1= 0] + 1]
--+ --+ 5 5 5 5
s = 0 s = 0
6 5
Type: List(Expression(Integer))
Now, if I don't a chance to ask you immediately, then the first check
would be to see what you describe for "guessRat". But if I click on it,
then I get "Select a view below". So I click "signatures". But uhhh... I
get a list of 18 guessRat functions. All with different signature. How
do you expect a user to find out which of them you actually applied in
"guess"? As a unexperienced Guess user, I stop here and don't use your
package.
Is that what you want? It seems that you must be the only Guess user.
Would you mind to improve the documentation so that others could benefit
from your work?
Ralf
PS: You might have some more documentation in the pamphlet, but if I
wouldn't already know how FriCAS is programmed, I would have no idea
that somewhere is still some more information. So the pamphlet is
irrelevant to the non-experience user. And anyway, how would I find out
*quickly* about my question of how to interpret the result of guess?
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