Sage Days 16 project idea page

[William Stein]

Hi,

I've started the project idea page at http://wiki.sagemath.org/days16/projects

Please add all of your project ideas to it.

William

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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

[John Cremona]

2009/6/20 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've started the project idea page at http://wiki.sagemath.org/days16/projects
>
> Please add all of your project ideas to it.
>

If I were there (sorry for the millionth time) I would want to
contribute to both the projects you have listed! Especially the
second one (abelian groups). I have been looking at #5882 with
interest and expected that a rewrite of abelian grousp would follow.

One plea: make sure that both additive and multiplicative notations
are supported. It's really only a matter of input & output, plus some
fairly obvious terminology changes (e.g. you allow A(0) only when A is
additive and A(1) only if it is multiplicative), all the underlying
computation is in common (and indeed is handled by #5882). For
example, in the now defunct ticket #4739 I did add additive versions
of the existing abelian group code (which uses multiplicative
notations exclusively despite being based on an additive
implementation) as I got fed up with elliptic curve torsion groups
being displayed multiplcatively.

The way I did this at #4739 might have some useful code which can be
recycled. It was based on 3.2.1 six months ago and obviously does not
now apply cleanly.

[I could have added the above comments to the wiki page but was not
sure of that was appropriate. Feel free to do so if it is.]