Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#5837 closed defect (fixed)
[with patch, needs review] bug in rational_diagonal_form() from QuadraticForm class
Reported by: | LBerlioz | Owned by: | LBerlioz |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-4.0 |
Component: | quadratic forms | Keywords: | QuadraticForm diagonal |
Cc: | tornaria | Merged in: | |
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Description
The following returns a non-diagonal QuadraticForm?:
sage: Q=QuadraticForm(2*A) sage: Q.rational_diagonal_form() Quadratic form in 3 variables over Rational Field with coefficients: [ -3 -32 5184 ] [ * -81 26240 ] [ * * -2125111 ]
This method works only when the matrix has a diagonal of only ones.
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Change History (8)
Changed 13 years ago by
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by
- Summary changed from bug in rational_diagonal_form() from QuadraticForm class to [with patch, needs review] bug in rational_diagonal_form() from QuadraticForm class
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by
- Milestone set to sage-3.4.1
Changed 13 years ago by
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by
- Cc tornaria added
- Milestone changed from sage-3.4.1 to sage-3.4.2
- Priority changed from minor to major
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by
Some issues in your patch:
- it's not a well formed patch (it's missing the filename to patch)
- some lines look badly indented, the
i=0
in the first line doesn't change the meaning, but the firstelse
is paired with afor
, not sure if that's what you actually mean. - you should add a test case which shows the bug has been fixed. For instance, add something like
sage: Q2=QuadraticForm(ZZ,3,[ -3,2,0 , 3,-2 , 5 ]) sage: Q2.rational_diagonal_form() Quadratic form in 3 variables over Rational Field with coefficients: [ -3 0 0 ] [ * 10/3 0 ] [ * * 47/10 ]
to the doctest. - you are also changing the function to correctly handle quadratic forms with 0 in the diagonal. You should write a doctest for that case as well.
Personally, I'd avoid the exception and rewrite the code making an explicit test for Q[i,i]Q=0
. This could also helps keeping the more natural for i in range(n):
outer loop, which is easier to read than the while i < n-1:
loop. The loop would just do a different thing depending on Q[i,i]=0
or not. Just a suggestion, since you are writing the patch, do as you see is more convenient.
comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by
This issue is fixed in the doctest patch in #5954.
comment:6 Changed 13 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-4.0.1 to sage-4.0
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
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Hi Luis,
at this stage only blockers will be fixed in 3.4.1, so this ticket is getting bounced to 3.4.2. Since this bug produces mathematically incorrect answers this is also certainly not minor ;)
You should also attach a patch with a doctest that demonstrates that the problem has been fixed. Let me know if you have any questions.
Gonzalo: If you find the time can you review this?
Cheers,
Michael