Re: [sage-devel] Re: MPC: Complex arithmetic with correct rounding

2010-02-08 Thread John Cremona
+1 for including MPC (initially as an alternative if that is deemed a safer way to proceed). John On 8 February 2010 01:15, YannLC yannlaiglecha...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 7, 10:19 am, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: This is maybe an obvious point, but I'll make it anyway:MPCis brought

[sage-devel] Re: MPC: Complex arithmetic with correct rounding

2010-02-07 Thread YannLC
On Jan 7, 10:19 am, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: This is maybe an obvious point, but I'll make it anyway:MPCis brought to you by the makers of MPFR.  They care a great deal about correctness, performance, and portability.  Both packages are actively developed and extensively tested.  

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MPC: Complex arithmetic with correct rounding

2010-01-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:55:49 -0800, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: I think this should go in as (2), perhaps as an optional package to start with, assuming the performance issues can be addressed (and it looks like there's been progress made in that area) it would

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MPC: Complex arithmetic with correct rounding

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 4, 2010, at 6:29 AM, YannLC wrote: On 4 jan, 15:06, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: I'm curious where you see this eventually going? (1) MPComplexField replaces ComplexField (2) MPComplexField provides an alternative to ComplexField (this is what you're proposing

[sage-devel] Re: MPC: Complex arithmetic with correct rounding

2010-01-04 Thread Jason Grout
YannLC wrote: Magma now uses MPC ( http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/htmlhelp/rel/node36.htm ) Shouldn't we at least make it available in Sage ? (see ticket #4446) I'm curious where you see this eventually going? (1) MPComplexField replaces ComplexField (2) MPComplexField