At the risk of repetition (sorry!):
[1] Indeed finding gro{e}bner bases when they are really
needed must be done as fast as possible !
[2] See next what I got with Maxima 5.15.0 after I created
the empty folder binary-gcl within the folder
PROGRA~1/MAXIMA~2.0/share/maxima/5.15.0/share
which is the Program Files folder where Maxima was installed
just abbreviated by "F" for the purpose of this message,
already tedious enough to read with it.
In that first Maxima session,
load(affine);
initiated a happy compiling of the affine package (under
Gnu Clisp on a Dell running MS Windows XP,
Home Ed. 2002, Serv. Pack 2)
and filling up "F"/affine/binary-gcl with *.o files.
Next session:
Maxima 5.15.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) load(affine);
Loading C:/"F"/affine/sys-declaim.lisp
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/sys-declaim.lisp
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sloop.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sloop.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/compat.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/compat.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/amacros.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/amacros.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/dummy-gc.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/dummy-gc.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polybas.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polybas.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sparsemat.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sparsemat.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/aquotient.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/aquotient.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/new-rat.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/new-rat.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polya.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polya.o
Loading C:/"F"/binary-gcl/ndotsimp.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/ndotsimp.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polyb.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polyb.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polysmp.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polysmp.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sub-proj.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sub-proj.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polyc.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polyc.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polyd.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/polyd.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sheafa.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sheafa.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sheafb.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sheafb.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sheafc.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/sheafc.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/dim-3.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/dim-3.o
Loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/modsimp.o
Finished loading C:/"F"/affine/binary-gcl/modsimp.o
(%o1) C:/"F"/affine/affine.lisp
(%i2) grobner_basis ([3*x^2+1, y*x]);
eliminated one
. 0 . 0
(%o2)/R/ [- y^2, - 3 x - 1]
(%i3) polysimp (y^2*x + x^3*9 + 2);
(%o3)/R/ - 3 x + 2
... and yes! that rather tedious verbosity (made worse
with the full expansion of the abbreviation "F" used here)
is rather annoying to say the least.
[3] I just downloaded the new version of Maxima but of
course that trick no longer works and so I returned to
Maxima 5.15.0 since I really need to use the compiled
affine package. (I also found that xwMaxima 8 didn't
work on my machine on top of that ! --- but that's another
story...)
Best wishes from Australia to all for the festive season !
Rene' Grognard ("Renatus")
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:30:16 +0100
> From: Andreas Eder <andreas_eder at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] package "affine"
> To: Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com>
> Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu, Michel Talon <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr>
> Message-ID: <18763.48648.909191.147829 at arran.eder.local>
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