Re: [fricas-devel] DirectProduct?

2010-06-11 Thread Bill Page
: DirectProduct(2,Fraction Polynomial Integer) (9) - Why is this 2nd result for (8) not of the same form as the first result for (8)? The only difference is R:=Polynomial Integer instead of R:=Integer Regards, Bill Page. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Bill Page bill.p

Re: [fricas-devel] DirectProduct?

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, What does the following have to do with Monoid? On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: On 06/10/2010 06:33 PM, Bill Page wrote: Ralf, I think that the map    coerce : Fraction Polynomial Complex Integer - % which is apparently  x+- [x,x] in )sh

Re: [fricas-devel] DirectProduct?

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Page
Module(R). If it did, then I think the question of coercion would be moot. Regards, Bill Page. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: On 06/10/2010 07:17 PM, Bill Page wrote: Ralf, What does the following have to do with Monoid? On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:06

Re: [fricas-devel] multiple values vs records as return values

2010-06-09 Thread Bill Page
: CROSS(A,B,C) - CROSS(D,E) There could be a similar short notation for UNION perhaps using [A, B, C] where again A, B, and C are Types and there is no danger of confusion with a list, Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS

Re: [fricas-devel] support for bundled gcl in configure?

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Page
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: ... Note: this is about reomoving support for building gcl inside FriCAS build tree.  Building FriCAS using already installed gcl giving --with-lisp option should work as before. Anybody opposed this idea? +1 Good idea! -- You

Re: [fricas-devel] Hypercomplex numbers

2010-03-19 Thread Bill Page
Rather than lying or expecting the system prove that x^2+1 is irreducible in R I think the usual approach in Axiom would be to introduce a declaration in the algebra library to this effect, i.e. introduce a new category such as Irreducible(x^2+1,R). On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Ralf

Re: [fricas-devel] Hypercomplex numbers

2010-03-18 Thread Bill Page
this sort of thing at the moment? I do not think there are any fundamental restrictions. Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-de...@googlegroups.com

Re: [fricas-devel] Hypercomplex numbers

2010-03-18 Thread Bill Page
if R has additiveValuation then additiveValuation if R has Field then-- this is a lie; we must know that Field-- x^2+1 is irreducible in R ... Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS

Re: function definition revisited was: Re: [fricas-devel] Issue 122?

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Page
Type: DoubleFloat (7) - )version Value = Saturday November 28, 2009 at 18:17:42 Regards, Bill Page. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: This one deserves its own thread. Another problem is that I am somehow unable to define a function like this: foo

Re: [fricas-devel] case and Union

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Page
if u occurs somewhere deeper in the body of the conditions it might help u case A = ... (u::A).x ... ( At least for those people who remain indentation challenged. :-) Regards, Bill Page. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote

[fricas-devel] Re: Issuse 305

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Page
specific change might have corrected the problem. http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/305 Thanks. Regards, Bill Page. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Waldek Hebisch hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl wrote: Bill, Did you wrote Issue 305 and SandBox Lorentz Transformations? Examples in the sandbox use

Re: [fricas-devel] tex

2010-01-15 Thread Bill Page
I use \def\zag#1#2{ {{\hfill \left. {#1} \right|} \over {\left| {#2} \right. \hfill} } } on the axiom-wik.newsynthesis.org I think I got that from either axiom.sty or perhaps some code embedded in the Axiom book. Regards, Bill Page. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:32 AM, leh

Re: [fricas-devel] comparable patches and comments on unparse

2009-12-08 Thread Bill Page
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: Bill Page wrote: Martin Rubey wrote: I would also like to see the rudimentary test file I sent to go with this patch. ?One remark: as you probably know, I'm strongly in favour of having InputForm keep all type information. ?I tried

Re: [fricas-devel] Multiplication of power series

2009-12-08 Thread Bill Page
contributed anything to the acceptance of Axiom in the potential user/developer community. Needless to repeat I suppose that this is of course only my personal opinion. :-) Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra

[fricas-devel] FreeMonoidCat, FreeCommutativeMonoid and OrderedMonoid

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Page
issues with the change of order in 'plus(f, g)' below? Question 3: Do you think the order defined on FreeGroup is a good one? Regards, Bill Page. wsp...@debian:~/fricas-sources$ svn status ? src/share/spadhelp --- Changelist 'free': M src/algebra/boo-cat.input M src/algebra

Re: [fricas-devel] comparable patches and comments on unparse

2009-11-23 Thread Bill Page
domain had a constructor function I think there would be no negative impact - perhaps in some special cases even an improvement. No? Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send

Re: [fricas-devel] Stuck with lazy argument in an operator

2009-11-20 Thread Bill Page
fits what you want to do with SMP. Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-de...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fricas

Re: [fricas-devel] How do I add infix operators?

2009-11-14 Thread Bill Page
this (keeping in mind that I am a beginner with FriCAS) I think you bring up a good point that this should be made easier to do. Regards, Bill Page -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send

Re: [fricas-devel] comparable patches and comments on unparse

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Page
be included and which should not. Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-de...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fricas

Re: [fricas-devel] comparable patches and comments on unparse

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Page
is a questionable trade-off. Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-de...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fricas-devel+unsubscr

[fricas-devel] Re: Newbie cant get started

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Page
of useful system commands. Issue )quit to leave FriCAS and return to shell. - (1) - --- Regards, Bill Page. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Waldek Hebisch hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl wrote: Martin Baker wrote: Waldek

[fricas-devel] comparable patches and comments on unparse

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Page
during testing and are busy solving them or you are occupied with something else... On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Bill Page wrote: About Comparable: Yes, it was important for some things I was working on at the time and I did commit at least part of these changes. But they were also

[fricas-devel] Re: Newbie cant get started

2009-11-09 Thread Bill Page
the binary is not compatible with your system. I almost always build all flavors for Axiom from current source. Would this be difficult for you? Regards, Bill Page. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Martin Baker gad9...@martinb.com wrote: Hi, I am attempting to install and run fricas-1.0.8

[fricas-devel] Re: hashing

2009-11-09 Thread Bill Page
am not sure that this very useful. One feature that I think we want for a hash code is that identical *values* should always hash to the the same code. The address is not of much importance. Or did I misunderstand your proposal? Regards, Bill Page

[fricas-devel] Re: hashing of Record, Union, Mapping

2009-11-09 Thread Bill Page
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: Bill Page writes: [...] | Of course with the definition above this is not possible. *If* FriCAS | did provide a good hash value for things of type Record (it currently | does not), then what you suggest would be possible

[fricas-devel] Re: Newbie cant get started

2009-11-09 Thread Bill Page
saw your reply to Martin. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[fricas-devel] Re: hashing of Record, Union, Mapping

2009-11-09 Thread Bill Page
Message: --- * interp/buildom.boot: Tidy. --- When ever you think the version of OpenAxiom installed on axiom-wiki should be updated, please let me know and I will do so as soon as I am able. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[fricas-devel] Re: hashing

2009-11-09 Thread Bill Page
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: Bill Page wrote: As you see above, there is not explicit pointer to an algebra object.         Rep := Record(value: S) is simply a container for things of type S.         ref v        == [v] returns this container as an object

[fricas-devel] Re: unparsing subscripts

2009-11-07 Thread Bill Page
should use :: InputForm . If this is a systematic failure someone should look at the code rather than generating a lot of test cases. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS

[fricas-devel] Re: unparsing subscripts

2009-11-07 Thread Bill Page
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: Bill Page writes: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: Afterthought: maybe generate a list of all domains D with Finite, and write a unparse(random()$D::INFORM) to a file, and generate a testsuite starting

[fricas-devel] Re: hashable

2009-11-04 Thread Bill Page
and merge versus Morton statistically would probably be difficult for most practical applications. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post

[fricas-devel] Re: domain definition

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Page
    lehmerCodeToPermutation(lst:L I):% ==        perm: % := (vector lst)        perm per vector lst --- Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Page
frequently - I have simultaneous changes in my source tree for different reasons but I sometimes want to commit just some of these changes as a related group. Finding out about svn changelists has delayed my decision to resort to a more intelligent local source repository manager. Regards, Bill Page

[fricas-devel] Re: hashable

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Page
Bill Page wrote: Well as Waldek pointed out: The whole point of hashing is performance. Having all hashing implemented in Spad might be nice conceptually but it is quite possible that it might be difficult to obtain sufficiently high performance to justify the effort - at least not without

[fricas-devel] Re: hashable

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Page
is rather trivial. I think just listing such references should be adequate. For the record here are a few references to Morton codes: http://www.codexon.com/posts/morton-codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_%28curve%29 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/pubs/bulkload.pdf Regards, Bill Page

[fricas-devel] Re: build hangs building hyperdoc pages

2009-11-02 Thread Bill Page
Bill Page wrote: Does any of this give you a better clue what is happening? On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: Not much.  One thing is if '/tmp/jazz1' was correctly created. Second, if '/tmp/jazz1' is owned by user trying to build FriCAS, etc. Output from strace

[fricas-devel] Re: hashable

2009-11-02 Thread Bill Page
Waldek, Thank you for your comments on hash tables. Bill Page wrote: So I think it would be a good idea to make the 'hashable' function in 'spad.lisp':   (defun |knownEqualPred| (dom)     (let ((fun (|compiledLookup| '= '((|Boolean|) \$ \$) dom)))       (if fun (get (bpiname (car fun

[fricas-devel] Re: build hangs building hyperdoc pages

2009-11-01 Thread Bill Page
Bill Page wrote: (1) - writing:       ifile:File List Integer:=open(/tmp/jazz1,output) writing:      write!(ifile, [-1,2,3]) writing:      write!(ifile, [10,-10,0,111]) writing:      write!(ifile, [7]) writing:      reopen!(ifile, input) writing:      read! ifile writing:      read! ifile

[fricas-devel] Re: tensor and the limits of spad

2009-10-31 Thread Bill Page
Franz, On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:24 AM, you wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:51:03PM -0400, Bill Page wrote: like to try to encourage you to commit the tensor code first in its current state without resolving this design decision. This was my intention, but I wouldn't commit if the build

[fricas-devel] Re: tensor and the limits of spad

2009-10-31 Thread Bill Page
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:53 PM, leh...@bayou.uni-linz.ac.at wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:30:31AM -0400, Bill Page wrote: Do you think we can define exactly what it should mean? I don't understand this question. What does the following recursive definition mean? Coalgebra(R

[fricas-devel] building rev 717

2009-10-31 Thread Bill Page
with the same prefix. By adding original category ... awk no longer sees these chunks. With this change the build proceeds to completion and I am now enjoying the new Tensor domain in FriCAS. Thank you! Regards, Bill Page. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:25 PM, ceram...@users.sourceforge.net wrote

[fricas-devel] Re: tensor and the limits of spad

2009-10-30 Thread Bill Page
would like to comment on this but it is going to take me some more time to consider the alternatives. In the mean time I still would encourage you to commit first and ask questions later. :-) Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[fricas-devel] hashable

2009-10-29 Thread Bill Page
. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[fricas-devel] Re: Generic Cached Functions

2009-10-29 Thread Bill Page
://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/book--main--1/Bookvol4 (recently updated from the Axiom git repository) Regards, Bill Page. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: Tim Daly allowed me to post this message to the mailing list... so... if somebody is interested to dig deeper

[fricas-devel] Re: InputForm, was: output

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
Yes, strange. Which Lisp? Which version? On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: Bill Page writes: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: Bill Page writes: Do you mean that 'unparse(%)' works for you? What version of FriCAS and lisp are you using? fricas

[fricas-devel] Re: InputForm, was: output

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
. Waldek, do you recall? Maybe newer versions of sbcl are better at trapping errors? On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: Bill Page writes: Yes, strange. Which Lisp? Which version? sbcl, I think 1,0.11 debian. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[fricas-devel] Re: generating matrices with complicated entries

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
by a somewhat different construction. ... Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com

[fricas-devel] Re: generating matrices with complicated entries

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Bertfried Fauser wrote: Bill Page wrote: No, this is a fairly common confusion about 'Polynomial' and related domains like 'Expression'. The parameter 'Integer' or 'Fraction Integer' refers only and specifically to the domain of the coefficients

[fricas-devel] Re: generating matrices with complicated entries

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: Bill Page writes: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Bertfried Fauser wrote: isn't it rather Polynomial Fraction Integer then? I am actually not sure what kind of difference there is between FPI  ==  Fraction Polynomial(Integer

[fricas-devel] Re: Generic Cached Functions

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
recursiveDefine(fib,(n:I):I+-if n2 then 1 else fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)) is enough. I mean, can you use the output of recursiveDefine directly in a map, e.g. map(fib,[10,20,30,40]) If you could, how would that compare to? map(function fib,[10,20,30,40]) Regards, Bill Page

[fricas-devel] Re: InputForm, was: output

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
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[fricas-devel] Re: Generic Cached Functions

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
== x.fun the operation map(function fib,[10,20,30,40]) is not cached. But it's not such a big deal. One can always write: map(x+-fib(x),[10,20,30,40]) Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
to a machine here and set up a git ? As I understand it, git like darcs does not require anything other than a common web server to be able to distribute a public repository. All of the rest of the work is done by the programs installed on your local workstation/laptop. No? Regards, Bill Page

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
not use a tool that is more complicated than necessary for the task. Like svn, git seems too complicated to me. But I am sure it could do the job and it is fully distributed too. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[fricas-devel] Re: Generic Cached Functions

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
wrap it up as the original two argument function like this: MurNak(x,y) == MurNakCached2 [x,y] It's easier than this sounds. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer

[fricas-devel] Re: output

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Page
! Bill Page wrote: I guess it's no excuse for a break condition but I presume you intended to write: (11) - unparse((2*product(factorial i, i=0..n))::INFORM) (11) 2*%defprod(factorial(%A),%A,i,0,n) Type: String Another

[fricas-devel] Re: HTML Dyperdoc

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Page
with FriCAS. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[fricas-devel] Re: InputForm, was: output

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Page
x is [=, arg1, arg2] or x is ['=, arg1, arg2] = concat(sumOrParen(arg1), '=, sumOrParen(arg2)) -sumOrParen(x) sumOrParen(x) sumOrParen(x) == --- Perhaps there is another bug lurking there? Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[fricas-devel] Re: Generic Cached Functions

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Page
treat it as a real function to the rest of FriCAS instead of having to depend on 'apply'. I think there are some instances where 'apply' does not apply such as when passing a function to 'map'. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[fricas-devel] Re: output, was: the symmetric functions..

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Page
(Expression(Integer)) I have not tried to look at the TEX output yet. Regards, Bill Page. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: since you are an expert of i-output now, could you have a look at http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/8SavannahBug9297OutputMissesSomeParenthesis I admit

[fricas-devel] Re: output, was: the symmetric functions..

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Page
Martin, On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:32 PM, you wrote: Bill Page writes: Please try the attached patch and let me know if it produces the results you expect. well, nearly.  First of all, please don't change = to = in the same patch, because it makes comparing the testsuite more difficult

[fricas-devel] Re: output, was: the symmetric functions..

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Page
\ j \right)}} \leqno(3) $$ Type: Expression(Integer) Regards, Bill Page On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Bill Page bill.p...@newsynthesis.org wrote: Martin, On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:32 PM, you wrote: Bill Page writes: Please try

[fricas-devel] Re: for loops

2009-10-25 Thread Bill Page
actual example code and the specific error message generated? Regards, Bill Page. On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Bertfried Fauser wrote: Hi, I have a question about the constructon of for loops. I noticed the following (odd?) behaviour in spad code:  dumy: Partition := partition

[fricas-devel] Re: for loops

2009-10-25 Thread Bill Page
ahead and do so.  partitions is not much used, so there is no danger of breakage. I agree that it would be good to re-think these domains. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS

[fricas-devel] Re: for loops

2009-10-25 Thread Bill Page
Waldek, Do you agree that it is desirable to extend FriCAS to permit streams in for-loops? Regards, Bill Page. On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Waldek Hebisch hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl wrote: FriCAS can iterate over streams: (4) - ss0 := [i for i in 0..]   (4)  [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

[fricas-devel] Re: the symmetric functions..

2009-10-25 Thread Bill Page
Axiom has the annoying (to me) behavior of showing equality like this: a= b (i.e. with no space preceding the equal sign but one space after) and changed that to be consistent with the treatment of '+' with spaces on both sides. Regards, Bill Page. On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Franz Lehner

[fricas-devel] Re: CYGWIN binary -- deliberately off list!

2009-10-24 Thread Bill Page
Martin, Seems to work for me on Windows 7 with new Cygwin install. I've uploaded it here: http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/FriCASonCygwin I think more people should try it. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[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: cygwin

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Page
. I just hope that there is enough space to add fricas to this VM. If the Sage people don't do this then we certainly could distribute a version of it that does include FriCAS. If you would like to work on this Ralf, I would be glad to help. Regards, Bill Page

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

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Page
how much you know about Sage and I don't think our time would be well spent unless we could agree first on those areas where we both feel qualified to comment. Regards, Bill Page. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Martin Rubey martin.ru...@math.uni-hannover.de wrote: Bill Page bill.p

[fricas-devel] Re: Symmetric Functions

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Page
, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

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

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Page
between FriCAS and OpenAxiom. Could you explain a little more your intention here? Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send

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

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Page
miss with svn. The darcs project is still alive and evolving a little but it only seems to favored by people with a natural interest in exotic languages like Haskell and Lisp ... ;-) Regards, Bill Page. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: On 10/21/2009 05:23 PM

[fricas-devel] Re: Something missing in new Aldor interface?

2009-10-20 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, It looks very likely to me that this is all related to AXL_EDIT_1_1_13_18 in 'aldor/src/gf_add.c' but I have to admit that this twist in the hash algorithm still seems rather opaque to me. Regards, Bill Page. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: What I

[fricas-devel] Re: infinite loop during trace

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
Waldek, On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:51 AM, you wrote: Bill Page wrote: wsp...@debian:~$ echo ')lisp (setf *print-circle* t) atan(tan(3)) )tr EF_;iatan atan(tan(3)) )quit' | fricas -nosman | tail                       #822#)))                 (|%eval| #829# . #(#1856# #822#)) (|rtrig

[fricas-devel] Re: See *print-level* and *print-length*

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
Thanks, Tim. That seems to work very well. It completely prevents the infinite loop and allows some measure of control over the detail. Does anyone see any disadvantage to making (setq *print-level* 1) the default? Regards, Bill Page. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Tim Daly d...@axiom

[fricas-devel] aldor interface and lisp trace

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
1.0.30, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. ... This was run under 32 bit Debian 5.0. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group

[fricas-devel] Re: Something missing in new Aldor interface?

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
in this architecture. If this was not due to Aldor one would expect the patch to cause the interface to fail when used on a 32 bit machine. No? Can you see anything else happening here? Regards, Bill Page. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: Waldek, can you explain, why you

[fricas-devel] Fwd: Building the Aldor interface on FriCAS or OpenAxiom

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
the patch, only: Against aldor-1.1 you'll need a small patch to the way axiom computes hash codes. -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Broadbery p_broadb...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, Nov 9, 2007 at 4:45 PM Subject: RE: Building the Aldor interface on FriCAS or OpenAxiom To: Bill Page bill.p

[fricas-devel] Re: infinite loop during trace

2009-10-18 Thread Bill Page
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Waldek Hebisch hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl wrote: Bill Page wrote: I think think it is bad to have a default that can cause an infinite loop in an FriCAS command even if it is a system level command like ')trace'. So if setting this flag prevents such loops, I

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

2009-10-17 Thread Bill Page
for it's licensing seem to be devoted mostly to destroying any future this language might have. :-( Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post

[fricas-devel] Re: Something missing in new Aldor interface?

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Page
in FriCAS seem to be working fine. But thank you for reminding me about the hashcode.spad patch. That may very well be the problem. I think we should commit this patch to FriCAS and just make the new version of Aldor a requirement. Regards, Bill Page. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Waldek

[fricas-devel] Re: Something missing in new Aldor interface?

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Page
will probably forget it again. ;-) Regards, Bill Page. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Waldek Hebisch hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl wrote: Ralf Hemmecke wrote: This is _not_ the most recent source.  New makefiles for Aldor interface are revision 677 and current revision is 684. For just compiling fricas

[fricas-devel] Re: FriCAS status

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Page
reverse_! (r::%) +-- Inserted by Bill Page, based on 'divide' from 'FreeMonoid' +(lar:% div a:%) == +(a = 1) = [lar, 1] +Na : Integer := #(la := listOfMonoms(a)$Rep) +Nlar : Integer := #(llar := listOfMonoms(lar)$Rep) +l:List(REC

[fricas-devel] Re: Something missing in new Aldor interface?

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Page
. The only old version I know for 64 bits systems is the one here: http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/Aldor that I built and distributed in binary before Aldor was officially available as open source. But I have never tried it with the Aldor interface. Regards, Bill Page. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5

[fricas-devel] Guessing formulas for sequences - new Fricas Version

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Page
with the examples? Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[fricas-devel] Something missing in new Aldor interface?

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Page
with code 1050701442 System error: The function FOAM-USER::|fiRaiseException| is undefined. (1) - Any ideas what might be wrong? Are you able to reproduce this problem? Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[fricas-devel] Re: nasty little bug in pattern matching

2009-10-10 Thread Bill Page
to FreeModuleCategory. Can you do this? Ok, done. It took me two commits to get it right. The 2nd commit reverted some changes I did not intend to make (yet). Below is the end result. Regards, Bill Page. wsp...@debian:~/fricas-sources$ svn diff -r 677:head Index: src/algebra/op.spad.pamphlet

[fricas-devel] Re: nasty little bug in pattern matching

2009-10-09 Thread Bill Page
Waldek, On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:55 PM, you wrote: Bill Page wrote: ... so I modified 'FreeModuleCategory' as follows: snip to provide a default 'smaller?' operation inherited by the XPOLY domains. That looks like good change. Testing revealed the 'constandOperator' problem

[fricas-devel] Re: VOID and NONE

2009-10-05 Thread Bill Page
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: Bill Page wrote: ... Although it is currently a stand alone domain, 'Void' could be easily made to satisfy 'SetCategory' by providing a simple '=' operation. Since by definition 'Void' has only a single canonical value we can simply

[fricas-devel] Re: bad code or side-effects?

2009-10-04 Thread Bill Page
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: ... Bill Page wrote:    (4)  1                                                        Type: BadCode(Integer) -- Notice the result in (4) above. I expected to see the output more. snip Can you reproduce this? Can anyone see why

[fricas-devel] Re: bad code or side-effects?

2009-10-04 Thread Bill Page
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Bill Page wrote: ... I guess I may have done more damage than I thought!  I'll revert changes and take another more careful look. Sorry. I confirm that it's my fault. (Don't know exactly what yet.) Both problems disappear when I revert and rebuild. Thanks

[fricas-devel] Re: build problem

2009-09-29 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, It looks like maybe you were doing a parallel build because of the order of the output near the end of the log. I have sometimes had problems. Maybe you could try it without this option? Regards, Bill Page. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: Hello

[fricas-devel] Re: build problem

2009-09-29 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, Do you recall the following email concerning the ecl upgrage? sage -i -s http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ghitza/ecl-9.8.4.spkg Regards, Bill Page. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bill Page bill.p...@newsynthesis.org Date: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [sage

[fricas-devel] Re: build error of fricas-1.0.7

2009-09-25 Thread Bill Page
get libaxiom.al from there and can (without much build time) complete the necessary compilation of just the runtime files locally. Excellent. Ralf PS: Just give me a few more days to finish the infrastructure stuff. +1 :-) Thanks Ralf! Regards, Bill Page

[fricas-devel] lexical or machine order and smaller? versus before?

2009-09-16 Thread Bill Page
if sorted?(alpha,beta) then ... This seems easy to read for me. Or if you want a more specific name maybe if machineSorted?(alpha,beta) then ... Ideas? Opinions? Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

[fricas-devel] Re: lexical or machine order and smaller? versus before?

2009-09-16 Thread Bill Page
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: Bill Page writes: [...] | The problem is that FriCAS and OpenAxiom have choosen different | names for the machine ordering. In FriCAS it is called smaller?. | smaller?(alpha,beta) evaluates to true if the value of alpha comes

[fricas-devel] Re: lexical or machine order and smaller? versus before?

2009-09-16 Thread Bill Page
to use it. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups FriCAS - computer algebra system group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

[fricas-devel] Re: lexical or machine order and smaller? versus before?

2009-09-16 Thread Bill Page
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: Bill Page writes: | I think it is good to cite an existing standard but I am not so sure | how relevant it is in this context. Perhaps C++ is a little obscure | for the average mathematically-oriented developer ... but no matter

[fricas-devel] Re: lexical or machine order and smaller? versus before?

2009-09-16 Thread Bill Page
and OpenAxiom (and original Axiom)? Do we need to implement some kind of compatibility layer such as a 'Comparable' category for OpenAxiom and a 'before?' operator in FriCAS? Regards, Bill Page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

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