[sage-devel] Re: Size of exponents and silent errors

2009-07-11 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
Hi, Singular definitely does have an issue with incorrect Grobner bases due to overflow. I've been in contact with the Singular team, and they do consider this to be a bug that they will fix. In general they want Singular to either give a correct answer or give an error message, no matter how Sin

[sage-devel] Re: Size of exponents and silent errors

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote: > >> I very strongly agree that such a limitation is a major problem. >> The only way I can think of to deal with it, is if any such exponent >> appears, we switch to the polydict (nonsingular) representation, and >> everything gets w

[sage-devel] Re: Size of exponents and silent errors

2009-07-07 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
> I very strongly agree that such a limitation is a major problem. > The only way I can think of to deal with it, is if any such exponent > appears, we switch to the polydict (nonsingular) representation, and > everything gets way slower, and Groebner basis computations switch to > a toy implement

[sage-devel] Re: Size of exponents and silent errors

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote: > > I'd like to discuss whether limiting the size of exponents of > variables in Sage is a good way to go, and whether it is necessary to > report an error when breaking those limits. In the default polynomial > ring using Singular,