Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#6941 needs_work defect
GCD, XGCD for polynomial rings with templating
Reported by: | spancratz | Owned by: | tbd |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | sage-6.4 |
Component: | algebra | Keywords: | |
Cc: | rws, jpflori | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Sebastian Pancratz | Reviewers: | |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | Commit: | ||
Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description
GCD and XGCD methods should return *monic* greatest common divisors. However, at the moment these two methods in the template file sage/rings/polynomial/polynomial_template.pxi
prevent this by enforcing that
gcd(a,0) == a
and
gcd(0,b) == b
.
I suggest that the code for these two methods in the template file should only refer to the corresponding celement_foo
methods of the actual implementation. This way, all the logic is in the
celement_foo
methods, rather than being split between the two levels.
The patch for this should touch the template file as well as the two linkage files for GF2X and zmod polynomials.
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Change History (13)
Changed 12 years ago by
comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 12 years ago by
- Summary changed from GCD, XGCD for polynomial rings with templating to [with patch, needs review] GCD, XGCD for polynomial rings with templating
comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 12 years ago by
Replying to malb:
The patch looks good, applies cleanly and doctests pass. However, do we really need to mimic the old behaviour?
I assume you are referring to the hyperelliptic curves part? Yes, I think so. Otherwise, some doctests fail. I haven't tried to fully understand the mathematics of that part, but it seems to depend on the assumption gcd(a,0) == a.
Sebastian
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by
Maybe we can ask the person who wrote that code?
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_review to needs_info
comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by
- Milestone set to sage-4.3
- Summary changed from [with patch, needs review] GCD, XGCD for polynomial rings with templating to GCD, XGCD for polynomial rings with templating
comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by
- Report Upstream set to N/A
- Status changed from needs_info to needs_work
If we need to mimic the old xgcd behavior, it would be much better to abstract that out into its own function with a docstring and some tests.
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-5.11 to sage-5.12
comment:8 Changed 7 years ago by
- Cc rws added
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- Milestone changed from sage-6.1 to sage-6.2
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- Cc jpflori added
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- Milestone changed from sage-6.3 to sage-6.4
The patch looks good, applies cleanly and doctests pass. However, do we really need to mimic the old behaviour?