On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 5:01:54 PM UTC-6, Doug Telford wrote:
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> On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 3:38:11 PM UTC-6, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
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>> On 04/21/2017 09:04 PM, Doug Telford wrote:
>> > 1. Is there documentaion about using aldor under fricas?
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>> Unfortunately, the answer is more or less: no.
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>> > How much of the aldor user's guide is applicable?
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>> Aldor is a programming language. It comes with basically 3 libraries.
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>> 1) axllib
>> 2) libaldor
>> 3) libalgebra
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>> where actually libalgebra is built on top of libaldor.
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>> When you use Aldor under FriCAS, then it basically is as if you use yet
>> another library (which is called "axiom" -- maybe we should rename that
>> to "fricas")
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>> In this sense, everything in the Aldor User Guide that is not referring
>> to a library, is applicable, i.e., the language description itself.
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>> When you use Aldor with FriCAS, you can look at
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>> http://fricas.github.io/api/index.html
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>> to find out about the function/domains/categories/packages that are
>> available.
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>> However, there is one big difference: you can use Aldor only to "extend"
>> what is already in FriCAS and you can use your programs only in a FriCAS
>> session but never as standalone programs.
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>> > 2. I tried to run the example program sieve.as under fricas. The
>> > program contains the function sieve and calls to sieve. Not clear
>> > how to execute the progam. Is aldor under fricas only applicable to
>> > functions?
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>> Simply type inside a fricas session:
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>> )compile sieve.as
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>> for i in 1..6 repeat ( _
>> n := 10^i; _
>> outputList ["There are ", sieve n, " primes <= ", n] _
>> )
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>> The following site needs some update... :-(
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>> http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/SandBoxAldorSieve
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>> Maybe more tomorrow...
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>> Ralf
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> Thanks for the valuable information. The only thing I noticed was that
> the function sieve conflicts with FriCas, so renaming it sieve2 works ok.
> Could you comment on when to use the include files
> aldor
> aldorio
> axiom
> axiom.as ?
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also, the sieve function uses isprime, which is not a FriCAS
function. Where does it find this function, since my understanding is that
it does not search the Aldor libraries?
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> --Doug
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