Hi Markus, Works without a hitch here (Debian/testing, Sage 8.4). I have been planning on doing this over the years but never got around to it, so really cool to see that you did. Nice work!
Cheers, Martin Markus Wageringel <markus.wagerin...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi everyone. > > I created a Sage wrapper for the C interface of FGb, which makes it easy to > call FGb from within Sage. The sources are available on Github [1] and can > be installed as a Python package into Sage: > > [1] https://github.com/mwageringel/fgb_sage > > > FGb is a C-library by J. C. Faugère for computing Gröbner bases and > supposedly it is one of the faster implementations that exist. It is > included with Maple [2]. FGb is closed source, but comes with a C interface > that is freely distributed for academic use. Some of the features: > > • The computations run in parallel. (This only seems to work for > computations over finite fields.) > • Elimination/block orders are supported. > • It runs on Linux and Mac. (There seem to be some issues, though. I could > not get FGb to work on my Ubuntu machine. It fails with an "Illegal > instruction" error.) > > > In my Sage interface, I implemented just two functions: computing Gröbner > bases and elimination ideals. Supposedly, the FGb C-library supports other > functionality like computing Hilbert polynomials, but that part of the > library is not documented very well, so it does not make sense to try to > create wrappers for that. The focus is finding a Gröbner basis which, once > computed, can be used by Sage for further computations. > > I just wanted to share this. Maybe it is useful for someone. > > Markus > > [2] https://www-polsys.lip6.fr/~jcf/FGb/Maple/index.html -- _pgp: https://keybase.io/martinralbrecht _www: https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
