Pardon my ignorance of Abelian Fields, but what would be a use of this set of classes? Do they simplify some calculation or make some code faster? The question is, "are they numerical?"
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 03/10/2011 19:50, Mikkel Meyer Andersen a écrit : > > 2011/10/3 Sébastien > Brisard<sebastien.brisard@m4x.**org<sebastien.bris...@m4x.org> >> >: >> >>> I would be curious to see how such a class would actually help you. I >>>> have >>>> to admit that a big part of my curiosity is due to the fact that I don't >>>> understand how it really would help. It could be, as you say, beautiful >>>> but >>>> useful is sometimes are more difficult goal with these things. >>>> >>>> I would also like to see if you are able to express enough interesting >>>> structure in the Java type system so as to be useful. >>>> >>>> So please do create a prototype. It will be very interesting to see it. >>>> >>>> I had nothing fancy in mind. I wanted merely to build a Group and a >>> Ring following what has been done in CM with Field/FieldElement. >>> I already had the opportunity to mention this library, but Jean-Marie >>> Dautelle's JScience is a good example of implementation of all these >>> mathematical structures (http://jscience.org/). However, I tend to >>> prefer the way Fields are implemented in CM (there are slight >>> differences, most notably getZero() and getOne() which are missing in >>> JScience). >>> If you are still interested, I'll post (not commit, I got the >>> message!!!) tentative interfaces once I've written them. >>> Sébastien >>> >> Me, too. >> > > I'm on the fence on this. I would also like to look at some examples about > what you have in mind. > > Luc > > > >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
