On 06/30/2014 01:01 AM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > I am thinking what to do with PolynomialFactorizationExplicit.
Just a short comment. For complicated problems there is no "perfect" algorithm. So the general approach is to cleanly implement several algorithms that work best for certain cases and then have a wrapper that tries to decide upon cheaply computable criteria which of the implemented algorithms should be started for a particular problem. (I'm certainly not telling you anything new here.) As for recombination of factors... It is not an option for me to return wrong results without telling the user. Not even if there is loss in efficiency. In other words, if a function claims to return a factorization, then it shouldn't return something else. However, if the specification said that the returned object might need a combination of factors to actually get the right thing then the user can decide whether he wants to call "recombineFactors". I.e. it's just a question of documenting properly what a function actually does. Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
