> Great! Welcome! What sort of library are you thinking of? Magnus - a package for finitely presented groups, may be.
> It's a possibility. If there was a library that only worked for sparse > matrices, but the user wanted to use a function on a dense matrix, I > don't see any way around converting the matrix. > > Of course, the user could ask for a sparse version of their matrix, then > call the library routine a thousand times, then convert back to dense, > if they wanted. There obviously, will be some common ground between Magnus and GAP, so the same group can be represented as a GAP object and as a Magnus object. I guess, I don't really understand who will be responsible for the conversion. ... Ahm, I've just looked at Sage's reference manual section on GAP-Singular connection (http://www.sagemath.org/doc/ref/node100.html) and I'm kind of unimpressed. It's ugly. It looks like the only benefit of using Sage is a common runtime environment across its libraries. Libraries' types are kept completely disjoint. Why not to do such translations (from a polynomial to a polynomial) transparently to the user? -- Best regards, Yegor __________________________________________________________ Yegor Bryukhov, Research Associate Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software City College of New York --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
