On May 9, 2007, at 4:40 PM, didier deshommes wrote:
> > On 5/9/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * new packages: >> - flintqs > > I have not heard about flintqs for awhile and I'm curious about it. > Would the flintqs people care to explain how to use it from SAGE? Is > it for univariate polynomials over Q only? Will there be a talk about > it at SD4 :) ? "flintqs" is Bill Hart's quadratic sieve code, as packaged for use in SAGE. It's a routine for factoring huge integers. It's already available in SAGE using the qsieve() function. But this has nothing to do with univariate polynomials as such. There is a larger project called FLINT, which has not yet been released. Bill Hart and I are the authors. The quadratic sieve will be a component, when it is released. The other component will be univariate polynomial arithmetic over Z. (Not Q.) Work on the polynomial arithmetic slowed down a while ago because we both got distracted by other things. But recently we have found more time, and development is coming along nicely. I might be persuaded to do a short talk on the current state of FLINT at SD4. I am also considering spending some time at SD4 on starting to develop a patch to wrap the polynomial arithmetic in SAGE. I don't expect it to be done by the end of SD4, but it might be feasible to at least start getting a patch that I can maintain as FLINT matures, until the time is ready to actually bring it into SAGE. David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
