[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Page
Franz, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:10:51AM -0400, Bill Page wrote: I am sorry that this took me a little longer than I had hoped. As usual some other activities interfered with my time available for FriCAS programming... :-( On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:28 AM, you wrote: thank you very much,

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Rubey
Bill Page bill.p...@newsynthesis.org writes: Anyways it takes too much space and sage people also decided to use #. I really dislike the use of the symbol '#' for this purpose. For one thing, # is a very common prefix operator that usually denotes the size or length of something in

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-23 Thread lehner
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:17:03PM -0400, Bill Page wrote: BTW, I guess the chunk test.input in 'tensor.spad.nw' still needs a little more work, right? That is why I did not include it yet in the FriCAS build. yes, that was another reason to hold it back :) Thanks for all the work! I will

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Page
Martin, Perhaps you misunderstood my comment. I did not intend to claim that FriCAS was any more rigorous than Sage. I said: I think FriCAS should focus on greater rigor and consistency.. The point is that these two projects have quite different goals. Or rather at least I think they should

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-21 Thread Bertfried Fauser
Hello Franz, and what about hopf and Loday Ronco ;-)) Greetings BF. PS: If you agree I could sent Bill the symmetric functions either, since I can really need any help to fix up the code into a robust form even if the domain is still heavily under construction. -- % PD Dr

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-21 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hey guys, whay about opening up a public repository for your work? I'm sure you find some place where you can do that. If Waldek agrees, the most natural way would be to work at a branch on sourceforge. Nowadays, however, I would prefer to see a git repository, though. ;-) It really changes

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Page
Franz, Thank you for sending the code. Yes, I would be glad to help with generating nicer output. I will try to get back to you some time in the next 24 hours. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:30 AM, you wrote: ... The major missing feature is ASCII output, something like x # y or x (*) y instead

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, It's an old subject, but yes I would be in favor of a change to git. And as you say: we could do it without moving away from SourceForge. BTW, as far as I know darcs was the first distributed source code contol system to offer this kind of cherry picking. It is something that I really

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-17 Thread Bertfried Fauser
Hello Martin und Franz, [this mail is cc-ed to fricas-devel since it may be of interest to people trying to use/implement Hopf algebras with fricas] Bases of symmetric function Hopf algebras: There are plenty of Symmetric function Hopf algebras, if we use this term in a broader sense, I give a

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-17 Thread Bill Page
Bertfried, On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:57 AM, you wrote: [this mail is cc-ed to fricas-devel since it may be of interest to people trying to use/implement Hopf algebras with fricas] Thank you for sharing your ideas concerning Hopf algebras in FriCAS. I am very interested in this and when I