2008/8/29 David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I agree AbelianGroups needs rewriting and has odd behavior in
> some cases.
>
> Incidently, here is what GAP does:
>
> gap> A := AbelianGroup([1,2,3]);
>
> gap> GeneratorsOfGroup(A);
> [ of ..., f1, f2 ]
> gap> A := AbelianGroup([2,1,3]);
>
> gap>
I agree AbelianGroups needs rewriting and has odd behavior in
some cases.
Incidently, here is what GAP does:
gap> A := AbelianGroup([1,2,3]);
gap> GeneratorsOfGroup(A);
[ of ..., f1, f2 ]
gap> A := AbelianGroup([2,1,3]);
gap> GeneratorsOfGroup(A);
[ f1, of ..., f2 ]
This is kind of mid-way
On Nov 22, 2007 7:31 AM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You should make an AbstractAbelianGroup class that derives from
> > ParentWithBase.
>
> Hmmm but wouldn't it make more sense for AbelianGroup (i.e. the
> currently implemented one) to derive from AbstractAbelianGroup?
Yes, i
On Nov 22, 2007, at 10:25 AM, William Stein wrote:
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> On Nov 22, 2007 6:53 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> \> On Nov 22, 2007 9:35 AM, David Harvey
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'd like to discuss this abelian group thing a bit further, from the
>>> point
On Nov 22, 2007 6:53 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
\> On Nov 22, 2007 9:35 AM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to discuss this abelian group thing a bit further, from the
> > point of view of design issues rather than algorithms.
> >
> > Curre
On Nov 22, 2007 9:35 AM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to discuss this abelian group thing a bit further, from the
> point of view of design issues rather than algorithms.
>
> Currently in SAGE the situation appears to be the following. An
> AbelianGroup represen
