[with bundle, three cheers] implementation of QQbar

I just read through this code.

• the code all looks good to me
• there is some useful documentation
• the doctest coverage of new functions isn't 100%, but the important functions have tests; more test should be added
• I cannot apply the hg bundle: {{{

sage: hg_sage.pull() cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg pull -u http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main pulling from http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main searching for changes no changes found If it says use 'hg merge' above, then you should type hg_sage.merge(). sage: hg_sage.heads() cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg head changeset: 7420:b06f58879bb3 tag: tip parent: 7419:dc8dedef562f parent: 7405:ce4aa966e4c1 user: William Stein <wstein@gmail.com> date: Tue Nov 27 05:59:30 2007 -0800 summary: merge

sage: hg_sage.apply('qqbar.hg') cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status Unbundling bundle /Users/was/Downloads/qqbar.hg If you get an error 'abort: unknown parent' this usually means either you need to do:

hg_sage.pull()

or you're applying this patch to the wrong repository. cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg unbundle -u "/Users/was/Downloads/qqbar.hg" adding changesets transaction abort! rollback completed abort: unknown parent 40eaefca4b52! }}}

• I can't apply the plain text patch cleanly either: {{{

sage: hg_sage.apply('7427-for-review.patch') cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg import "/Users/was/Downloads/7427-for-review.patch" applying /Users/was/Downloads/7427-for-review.patch patching file sage/rings/complex_field.py Hunk #1 FAILED at 25 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file sage/rings/complex_field.py.rej abort: patch failed to apply }}}

I just read through this code.

• the code all looks good to me
• there is some useful documentation
• the doctest coverage of new functions isn't 100%, but the important functions have tests; more test should be added
• I cannot apply the hg bundle:

  sage: hg_sage.pull()
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg pull -u http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main
  pulling from http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main
  searching for changes
  no changes found
  If it says use 'hg merge' above, then you should
  type hg_sage.merge().
  sage: hg_sage.heads()
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg head 
  changeset:   7420:b06f58879bb3
  tag:         tip
  parent:      7419:dc8dedef562f
  parent:      7405:ce4aa966e4c1
  user:        William Stein <wstein@gmail.com>
  date:        Tue Nov 27 05:59:30 2007 -0800
  summary:     merge
  
  sage: hg_sage.apply('qqbar.hg')
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status
  Unbundling bundle /Users/was/Downloads/qqbar.hg
  If you get an error 'abort: unknown parent'
  this usually means either you need to do:
         hg_sage.pull()
  or you're applying this patch to the wrong repository.
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg unbundle -u "/Users/was/Downloads/qqbar.hg"
  adding changesets
  transaction abort!
  rollback completed
  abort: unknown parent 40eaefca4b52!
  

• I can't apply the plain text patch cleanly either:

  sage: hg_sage.apply('7427-for-review.patch')
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg status
  cd "/Users/was/s/devel/sage" && hg import   "/Users/was/Downloads/7427-for-review.patch"
  applying /Users/was/Downloads/7427-for-review.patch
  patching file sage/rings/complex_field.py
  Hunk #1 FAILED at 25
  1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file sage/rings/complex_field.py.rej
  abort: patch failed to apply
  

OK, I tried to be excessively clever with Mercurial here, and it backfired. The patch qqbar.hg evidently only works if you start with the exact same version of Sage that I started with, then apply patches from #1270 and #1273 on that version, then apply qqbar.hg.

I've attached qqbar-full.hg, which is a single bundle containing #1270+#1273+qqbar.hg; you should be able to apply this on any sufficiently new version of Sage, instead of requiring the exact same version I had.

I have been testing/playing with this and read much of the code and it looks very nice. Thanks!

One thing that looked really out of place to me was the handling of the golden ratio constant. I'm attaching a patch that I would like you to consider as an alternative way of doing it.

I merged qqbar-full.hg, but I am waiting for comment on qqbar-sqrt-golden.patch submitted by Robert.

Excellent!

Cheers,

Michael

Robert, my golden ratio code has the "advantage" that computations like AA(golden_ratio)^2 - AA(golden_ratio) are exact:

sage: phi = AA( (1+AA(5).sqrt()) / 2) 
sage: phi^2 - phi
[0.99999999999999988 .. 1.0000000000000003]
sage: phi = AA(golden_ratio)
sage: phi^2 - phi
1

If you don't think that's useful, then I'm happy to switch the implementation.

I'm puzzled by your new chunk in .argument(); as far as I can tell, it should be redundant. (Did you upgrade to the MPFI spkg in #1268 before applying #1270? That version fixes some bugs that cause problems in .argument(). Note that if you apply #1270 and rebuild, then upgrade #1268, it has no effect; if you did things in that order, you would also need to touch mpfi.pxi, like it says in the description for #1268.)

Also, sqrt() needs a scary warning about branch cuts, along the lines of the warning in argument(). (Now that I look, I see that __pow__() is also missing such a warning.)

Thanks for the review!

I wasn't able to install the MPFI spkg, hence the new chunk in argument. If that makes it redundant, than we don't need it. In fact, I thought this is why you did golden_ration the way you did ('cause without the argument "fix" the imaginary part was not exactly 0).

I agree both sqrt() and __pow__() should refer to the warning and docstring of argument().

Here is a question. In your way, in your original version, if you do

sage: phi = AA(golden_ratio)
sage: (phi - 1/2)^2

is the answer exact?

In any case, this should definitely get included and we can deal with this issue later.

Merged in 2.8.15.alpha2.

The two main parts of Robert's patch/comment have been split out as #1363 and #1365, and the actual implementation of qqbar was applied in 2.8.15.alpha0.