Dima Pasechnik

zlib version

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Might be a bit offtopic here, but why does OpenBSD not upgrade to a newer zlib. 1.2.3 is really ancient (from 2005), and it causes e.g. a problem with R...

The newer (and final) version is 2.2.2, see https://metacpan.org/pod/MongoDB

describing how to build dynamically linked (lib)primecount without root

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Playing with cmake a bit, I found how to set up libprimecount and primecount without root, something that's valuable in a number of settings, e.g. on HPC clusters, other shared...

SymmetricPower undocumented and broken over finite fields.

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While one can do ``` gap> Display(SymmetricPower([[1,2],[3,4]],3)); [ [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ], [ 9, 16, 28, 48 ], [ 27, 42, 64, 96 ], [ 27, 36, 48,...

make releases clear

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At the moment the "latest" release on GH is quite old, older than 1.2.0 (advertised on mpmath.org as "latest") And what is the status of 1.2.1? Is it the real...

document Hansen/Hansen-Smith?

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Reading Arb 2.18 manual gives an impression that none of the Hansen-Smith stuff mentioned in http://fredrikj.net/blog/2018/06/the-arb-matrix-reloaded/ is implemented in Arb. Has it never actually landed, or just the manual is...

make install does not run ldconfig

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Doing `./configure && make && sudo make install` on a Linux system results in `librarb.so*` installed in `/usr/local/lib64`, but not known to the loader, as `ldconfig` is not run. IMHO...

specifying `-DWITH_ARB=yes` ends with ``` CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message): Could NOT find ARB (missing: ARB_INCLUDE_DIRS) ```

tests do not check quality of solutions

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## Expected behavior If I do something silly with the test result, e.g. ```diff --- a/EXAMPLES/SYM/ssdrv1.f +++ b/EXAMPLES/SYM/ssdrv1.f @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ c %---------------------------% c call av(nx, v(1,j), ax) call...