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Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: coerce, cast, partial fractions
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Dylan Thurston |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: coerce, cast, partial fractions |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Oct 2003 11:32:37 -0400 |
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:34:46AM -0400, William Sit wrote:
> Dylan Thurston wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:31:55AM -0400, Tim Daly wrote:
> > > If I understand the partialFraction answer (perhaps I don't) the
> > > result given is a partial fraction as far as Axiom is concerned.
> > > Partial fractions work on the factored equation and it appears
> > > that Axiom doesn't think it can factor the equation over the
> > > target domain so the partial fraction uses the "fully factored"
> > > value. The issue appears to be that the target domain chosen by
> > > the interpreter is one in which there are no factors. Or perhaps
> > > it is just a street-level bug :-)
> >
> > But how could x^2-1 not be factorizable in any reasonable domain?
> >
> > I can see that AXIOM might pick a domain where it doesn't know how to
> > factor, but I would be very surprised to see one coming from an
> > expression like this!
> >
> Surely, x^2 -1 can be factored in POLY INT and Axiom behaves correctly. So the
> problem is not with factoring.
>
> Remember that algorithms in Axiom are categorical. From the documentation in
> partialFraction:
>
> "For a general euclidean domain, it is not known how to factor the
> denominator.
> Thus the function partialFraction takes as its second argument an element of
> Factored(R)."
>
> It also states that the requirement for R to be a euclidean domain is to
> normalize the denominator.
Sure, that's why the second argument is supposed to be factored _before_
partialFraction is called. It's not being factored; this is not a bug
in partialFraction, but a bug someplace else.
Specifically, from the output with ')lisp (setq |$monitorNewWorld| t)',
the problem probably lies in whatever is going on in this stanza:
----------
---->Factored UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer)----> searching op table
for:
coerce : UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer) -> % from Factored
UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer)
<----#<compiled-function
|FR;coerce;R$;43|>(Factored,UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer))
----------
This looks like it should be calling the standard 'coerce' from
UP(x, FRAC INT) to FR UP(x, FRAC INT), which should do the factorization
(according to all the documentation I read), but doesn't! (Or maybe the
coercion function from the 'Factored' domain doesn't actually do the
factorization itself?)
Compare this to what happens when we try to do this coercion explicitly:
----------
(4) -> aa:UP(x, FRAC INT) := x^2-1
(4) x - 1
Type: UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer)
(5) -> aa::FR UP(x, FRAC INT)
---->RationalFactorize UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer)----> searching
op table for:
factor : UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer) -> Factored
UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer) from RationalFactorize
UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer)
<----#<compiled-function
|RATFACT;factor;RPF;1|>(RationalFactorize,UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction
Integer))
---->Factored UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer)----> searching op table
for:
coerce : % -> OutputForm from Factored UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction
Integer)
<----#<compiled-function
|FR;coerce;$Of;35|>(Factored,UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer))
(5) (x - 1)(x + 1)
Type: Factored UnivariatePolynomial(x,Fraction Integer)
----------
Somehow, a different routine ('RationalFactorize') is being called.
Peace,
Dylan
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- [Axiom-developer] coerce, cast, partial fractions, Tim Daly, 2003/10/09
- [Axiom-developer] Re: coerce, cast, partial fractions, Dylan Thurston, 2003/10/09
- [Axiom-developer] Re: coerce, cast, partial fractions, Tim Daly, 2003/10/09
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: coerce, cast, partial fractions, William Sit, 2003/10/11
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: coerce, cast, partial fractions,
Dylan Thurston <=
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: coerce, cast, partial fractions, Tim Daly, 2003/10/15
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: coerce, cast, partial fractions, David MENTRE, 2003/10/15
- [Axiom-developer] literate programs, Tim Daly, 2003/10/15
[Axiom-developer] CVS build broken? -- errortrap, Camm Maguire, 2003/10/10