Thanks for trying this Marshall. Unfortunately, your spkg, and the
older experimental spkg,
for 4ti2, both fail to install on my amd64 ubuntu 9.04 machine. I have
N Cohen's version of the
glpk spkg installed.


On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Marshall Hampton<hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, that was stupid of me, I should have looked in the experimental
> packages first.  There are older ones for 4ti2 and glpk, which might
> solve my problems.
>
> -Marshall
>
> On Jul 31, 11:15 am, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm just editing the subject line to attract attention from people
>> like Mike Hansen who might have done overlapping work.
>>
>> -Marshall
>>
>> On Jul 31, 11:03 am, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to make an spkg for 4ti2, but I am having trouble getting
>> > it to recognize GMP.  I'm sure many people on this list are more
>> > qualified than I am to figure that out.
>>
>> > t4i2 requires the linear programming package glpk, which I think I did
>> > succeed in making an spkg for - at least it works on my mac, and its
>> > pretty minimal so I would think it works on linux.
>>
>> > My current attempts are at:
>>
>> >http://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/4ti2.p0.spkghttp://www.d.umn.edu/~mham...
>>
>> > in case anyone wants to take a look and fix or improve them.
>>
>> > -Marshall
>>
>> > On Jul 27, 4:30 pm, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > I'm having trouble with 4ti installation. Maybe I'm just too impatient.
>> > > Do you have an spkg for it?
>>
>> > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM, davidp<dav...@reed.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > > > Marshall and David: thanks very much for these suggestions.
>>
>> > > > Dave
>>
>> > > > On Jul 20, 4:59 am, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:33 PM, davidp<dav...@reed.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > > >> > I have been working on a Sage package for doing computations 
>> > > >> > involving
>> > > >> > the
>> > > >> > AbelianSandpileModel.  In addition, this summer I am the mentor for
>> > > >> > a Google
>> > > >> > Summer of Code project which is a java application for visualizing 
>> > > >> > and
>> > > >> > analyzing sandpiles.  The latest addition to the java program has 
>> > > >> > been
>> > > >> > the
>> > > >> > ability to interact with Sage.  For a glance at what has been going
>> > > >> > on, I would
>> > > >> > recommend:
>>
>> > > >> >  www.reed.edu/~davidp/sand
>>
>> > > >> > especially
>>
>> > > >> >  www.reed.edu/~davidp/sand/sage/html/sage_sandpiles.html
>>
>> > > >> > and
>>
>> > > >> >  www.reed.edu/~davidp/sand/program/program.html
>>
>> > > >> > It would be great to get feedback from Sage users.  The Google 
>> > > >> > Summer
>>
>> > > >> I've read the papers on RR spaces of graphs, and related papers using
>> > > >> tropical curves,
>> > > >> so am very happy to see that this is implemented. Long ago, I looked
>> > > >> at the chip-firing papers.
>> > > >> However, I had no idea that these topics were related and have
>> > > >> forgotten what I read
>> > > >> about that aspect anyway.
>>
>> > > >> You asked for comments. Looking 
>> > > >> athttp://people.reed.edu/~davidp/sand/sage/html/sage_sandpiles.html#dis...
>> > > >> andhttp://people.reed.edu/~davidp/sand/sage/html/sage_sandpiles.html#pro...
>> > > >> (in other words looking at the *output* of your code and not the code 
>> > > >> itself),
>> > > >> I have a few observations (which may or may not be useful or 
>> > > >> correct:-):
>>
>> > > >> 1) it seems to me that you have implemented rather hackish methods for
>> > > >> constructing and manipulating divisors on graphs. It would be nice if
>> > > >> they were implemented
>> > > >> in a way similar to divisors on curves (ie, as a class with methods
>> > > >> for addition, etc).
>>
>> > > >> 2) It seems you have a included some print statements for the r_of_D 
>> > > >> function:
>>
>> > > >> sage: r_of_D = S.r_of_D(D)[0]
>> > > >>     0
>> > > >>     1
>> > > >>     2
>> > > >>     sage: r_of_F = S.r_of_D(F)[0]
>> > > >>     0
>>
>> > > >> though I am not sure. I would suggest having r_of_D return r(D) by
>> > > >> default and then
>> > > >> have an option 'algorithm = "verbose"' or something if you want to
>> > > >> output the divisor F
>> > > >> as well. I suggest eliminating the print statements. Typically and 
>> > > >> assignment
>> > > >> in Python (such as r_of_D = S.r_of_D(D)[0]) has no values printed to 
>> > > >> the screen.
>>
>> > > >> 3) You seem to have a non-standard method of describing a ring in 
>> > > >> Sage:
>>
>> > > >>     sage: g = {0:{},1:{0:1,3:1,4:1},2:{0:1,3:1,5:1},
>> > > >>                3:{2:1,5:1},4:{1:1,3:1},5:{2:1,3:1}}
>> > > >>     sage: S =Sandpile(g, 0)
>> > > >>     sage: S.ring()
>>
>> > > >>     //   characteristic : 0
>> > > >>     //   number of vars : 6
>> > > >>     //        block   1 : ordering dp
>> > > >>     //                  : names    x_5 x_4 x_3 x_2 x_1 x_0
>> > > >>     //        block   2 : ordering C
>>
>> > > >> It seems to me the print method should, again, mirror that of the
>> > > >> base_ring method for an algebraic curve.
>>
>> > > >> Overall though I think this is extremely interesting code and I'm
>> > > >> looking forward
>> > > >> to playing with it a lot more! This week I'm helping with advising 
>> > > >> new freshmen
>> > > >> who will be starting classes this fall, but will try to give you more 
>> > > >> detailed
>> > > >> comments as soon as I can.
>>
>> > > >> > of Code
>> > > >> > project will end in August, so if there are any features you would
>> > > >> > like us to
>> > > >> > add to the java application, please let us know as soon as possible.
>>
>> > > >> > Thanks,
>> > > >> > Dave
> >
>

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