On 9/9/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have added the following functionality to the mwrank package:
> * an interface to pari's isprime() function which (as we confirmed
> recently) really does provide a proof that primes are prime
> * integer factorization using the pari library is now followed by
> calling isprime() on the prime factors found
> * in the unlikely event that isprime() returns false on any of those
> (NB there are no known examples of this behaviour, according to the
> pari documentation, and it is proved not to happen for primes under
> 10^15) a WARNING is output to stderr.
>
> Of course it would be prefereable to call factor() again instead of
> raising an error, but I don;t know if that would do anything at all,
> and in any case examples would be interesting to see.
>
> Now I have checked in those changes to my own CVS repository;  I also
> created an hg repository as explained by William below -- doing this
> in my own source directory.  SOrry to be stupid, but what next?  (In
> the sage build directory I assume that the mwrank files exist
> somewhere, but I think only in a compressed tar file, so I have not
> changed those.)

Since you just setup the hg repo, and I don't have a copy
of it, the best thing would be for you could just tar up your mwrank
directory and make it available to me :-).   In the future, though,
you can make patches easily available, which anybody can apply
to their copy of mwrank.

William

 -- william

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