Daniel R. Grayson
Daniel R. Grayson
When writing a package that introduces symbolic name for optional parameters to functions, it can be a burden to document them and to worry about whether they conflict with other...
On an airplane, before paying for internet service, all web accesses are diverted to the registration page: ``` i5 : getWWW "http://yahoo.com/" o5 = HTTP/1.1 302 Found Server: squid/3.5.2 Date:...
This operation on ideals is not well defined, i.e., equal ideals don't provide equal results. We should make it mathematically sensible. ``` Ideal ^ Array := (I, e) -> (...
For ideals I==J it might be faster to compare gb's rather than to perform all the reductions performed by isSubset(I,J) and isSubset(J,I). Why is the code here commented out?: ```...
It looks like mutable lists grow their length by only one at a time. Perhaps the length should double when it needs to increase. Or just warn users to amortize...
... so it leads to silly displays like this: ``` i16 : f = map(R^{0}, R^{ 5 }, {{1}}, Degree => 5) o16 = | 1 | 1 1 o16...
It should be possible to generate the html documentation of a set of packages, post it on the the web, and have all the links work, even those whose target...
``` i2 : R = QQ[x,y,z]/(x*y,x*z); i3 : topComponents ideal(y,z) o3 = ideal 1 o3 : Ideal of R ``` Reported here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/macaulay2/7t6RYgi_In0
This is with version 1.6.9, as used by Macaulay2: ``` -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "~/src/M2/M2/M2/BUILD/dan/builds.tmp/einsteinium-master/libraries/4ti2/build/4ti2-1.6.9/test/" -*- Comint started at Sun Apr 19 09:34:43 make check Makefile:838: warning: overriding recipe for...