On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > During the coding sprints taking place at ECC2011 summer school, one > of our project might be to build interfaces to the three libraries > available at multiprecision.org (by Andreas Enge and others): > - MPC (complex numbers with arbitrary precision - an optional spkg > already exists, so that would only be an update - see trac #4446) > - MPFRCX (polynomials using the above lib and MPFR) > - CM (construction of class polynomials by floating-point > approximation using the above libs) > > I'd like to know if anyone has any suggestion or objection about/ > against that idea.
Makes sense to me. I'd rather see one of the interfaces pulled through to completion rather than three of them half-done. Of course, once you do one of them, the others would likely be *much* quicker. MPC is probably the easiest target to shoot for, but also the one that will give the least benefit. (Correctly-rounded complex numbers would be great to have, but it's not like we don't have complex numbers...) CM would be the most interesting, and if you had spkgs to the other two you wouldn't have to have interfaces to them before writing a nice, clean interface to CM. (Please, however, use a more descriptive name.) There's lots of people here, including myself, that can answer any cython or coercion issues that may come up. - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
