I meant the Frac class.

On Jun 11, 1:48 pm, SherjilOzair <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aaron, it would be wonderful if we could discuss the implementation of
> the Frac function.
>
> On Jun 2, 10:37 pm, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I use Matrices in the Risch algorithm.  
> > Seehttps://github.com/asmeurer/sympy/blob/integration3/sympy/integrals/p....
> >  The function in the test 
> > athttps://github.com/asmeurer/sympy/blob/integration3/sympy/integrals/t...
> > should give you an idea of a typical usage.
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> > The matrices are rational functions, with possible symbolic
> > coefficients, though the computability problems for symbolic
> > coefficients is something we know we will have to deal with (see the
> > comment at the top of constant_system()).  At the moment, it doesn't
> > get very large with what is implemented, but it could when more things
> > are implemented.  The main things that I need to do are rref(), with
> > correctness assured with rational functions, and the ability to
> > compute null spaces (mainly with rational entries, but I suppose they
> > could be any symbolic entries).  This is the only part of the Risch
> > algorithm code that uses Expr instead of Poly, since Matrix doesn't
> > work with Poly (we would need a Frac class for that).  I don't like
> > how I have to manually make sure rref calls cancel to assure
> > correctness (actually, if we had Frac, I could remove a ton of calls
> > to Poly.cancel in my code).
>
> > Like Mateusz pointed out, heurisch() solves a huge linear system.  The
> > sizes he gives are a little misleading, since those are only for the
> > integrals that run fast enough to be in the tests.  If you try to run
> > an integral like the one from issue 1441, it hangs because of a sparse
> > system of about 600 equations in about 450 variables (put a print
> > statement in the code).
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> > Aaron Meurer
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> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Brian Granger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
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> > > In sympy.physics.quantum we use sympy Matrix instances all over the
> > > place.  These can be quite large (100x100 up to many 1000x1000.  In
> > > the future we could get even bigger) and always have symbolic entries.
> > >  At times we do like to convert them to numerical numpy arrays, but in
> > > many cases we really want the symbolic forms.
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> > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:56 AM, SherjilOzair <[email protected]> 
> > > wrote:
> > >> I would like to know how and where Sympy's matrices are used.
> > >> Is Sympy matrices used for numeric computing anywhere ?
> > >> Are Sympy Matrices expected to offer any advantage that matrices in
> > >> numpy/scipy or other libraries cannot offer ?
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> > >> Is its use limited to symbolic ? What size of Matrices with symbolic
> > >> content is used ?
> > >> Operations on Expr are way costlier than operations on numerics. So,
> > >> knowing the size of the symbolic matrices that are required would help
> > >> me in optimization when writing algorithms for sparse matrices, and
> > >> also when refactoring Matrix.
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> > >> I expect that one cannot use too large symbolic matrices, as solving/
> > >> inversing/etc. would result in expression blowup.
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> > >> I would be glad if you could also tell what running time you would
> > >> expect from the matrices that you use.
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> > > instant ;)
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> > > When we are dealing with large symbolic matrices, we are typically
> > > just doing matrix/vector multplies.  But for small matrices we do
> > > other things like linear solves, decompositions and eigenvalue
> > > problems.  symbolic eigenvalues are great, but expressions quickly get
> > > out of hand as the matrix size increases.
>
> > > Cheers,
>
> > > Brian
>
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