Re: [Math][Numbers] Move Field, etc. to numbers?

2017-09-16 Thread Simon Spero
On Sep 15, 2017 5:30 PM, "Raymond DeCampo" wrote: Re terminology a field is an abstract system of numbers so I don't see an issue there. Let E = {Dunhill, Camel}, Let Dunhill * Dunhill = Dunhill, Dunhill * Camel = Dunhill, Camel * Dunhill = Dunhill, Camel * Camel = Ca

Re: [Math][Numbers] Move Field, etc. to numbers?

2017-09-16 Thread Eric Barnhill
I am also not in favor of retaining the Field class. In the context of a large mathematical library that was attempting to meaningfully fuse OOP concepts with mathematical functionality it might make sense (although it should be pointed out, all the mathematicians I know are not really interested i

Re: [Math][Numbers] Move Field, etc. to numbers?

2017-09-16 Thread Raymond DeCampo
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Gilles wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 10:57:06 -0400, Raymond DeCampo wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Gilles >> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:30:26 -0400, Raymond DeCampo wrote: >>> >>> So I was trying to work through MATH-1416, which is to remov

Re: [Math][Numbers] Move Field, etc. to numbers?

2017-09-16 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 10:57:06 -0400, Raymond DeCampo wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Gilles wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:30:26 -0400, Raymond DeCampo wrote: So I was trying to work through MATH-1416, which is to remove code from CM which has been moved to CN and I ran into a snag wh

Re: svn commit: r1808564 - /commons/proper/jelly/trunk/NOTICE.txt

2017-09-16 Thread Rob Tompkins
Thanks. I can pick this up later today as well. > On Sep 16, 2017, at 11:00 AM, ohe...@apache.org wrote: > > Author: oheger > Date: Sat Sep 16 15:00:57 2017 > New Revision: 1808564 > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1808564&view=rev > Log: > Updated copyright date in NOTICE. > > Modifie

Re: [Math][Numbers] Move Field, etc. to numbers?

2017-09-16 Thread Raymond DeCampo
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Gilles wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:30:26 -0400, Raymond DeCampo wrote: > >> So I was trying to work through MATH-1416, which is to remove code from CM >> which has been moved to CN and I ran into a snag when trying to replace >> o.a.c.math4.f.BigFraction with