+1 from me as well. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Robert Miller <rlmills...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > John, > > > > On May 21, 9:38 am, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2009/5/21 Robert Miller <rlmills...@gmail.com>: > >> 2. It is not true to say that "A version of ratpoints was the starting > >> point of ... mwrank", not at all. mwrank does 2-descent, during the > >> course of which it has to search for points on such curves. For the > >> first 10 years of mwrank that was done by my own code. Then Stoll's > >> ratpoints came along which did that part faster (but did no kind of > >> descent at all, it was just a fast point search); so I adapted it and > >> put it into mwrank in 1999. My older searching code is still in > >> there, in fact if you change line 61 of src/qrank/mrank1.cc from this: > >> #define QSIEVE_OPT 0 // uses Stoll's sieve > >> so something else it wil still work (or it did last time I tried it, > >> so not guaranteed). > > > > Sorry -- I was only referring to the fact that mwrank currently uses > > an out-of-date version of ratpoints. > > > > Anyway, I'll cast my vote: > > > > +1 for including ratpoints (once leaks are fixed) in Sage standard. > > +1 since we already include an old version of ratpoints. I think > voting for this > is a total no brainer. > > William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
