Re: obsolete information on the PARI/GP website

Karim Belabas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.pari.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Vincent,

Both problems should be fixed now.

I hadn't updated the HTML conversion in a while (can't do it automatically
since it breaks often and I don't want to fix it everyday...). I changed the
gphtml documentation converter to indicate the specific commit number in the
version, as in the GP header.

Thanks !

      K.B.

P.S. Note that GP 12.1 doesn't exist as a well defined object yet, although
the 'master' branch is made to "look like it" as much as possible.

s * Vincent Lefevre [2020-05-16 21:43]:
> Hi,
> 
> First, on https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/anongit.html the "git clone"
> URLs should be updated to the https ones.
> 
> Moreover, on
> 
>   https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/dochtml/html/
> 
> about "Standard monadic or dyadic operators", operator ^, or more
> directly
> 
>   https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/dochtml/html/Standard_monadic_or_dyadic_operators.html#backslashpow
> 
> I read:
> 
>   If the exponent n is an integer, then exact operations are performed
>   using binary (left-shift) powering techniques. If x is a p-adic
>   number, [...]
> 
> which doesn't match the text from "src/functions/operators/HEADER":
> 
>  \item If the exponent $n$ is an integer, then exact operations are performed
>  using binary (left-shift) powering techniques. By definition, $x^0$ is
>  (an empty product interpreted as) an exact $1$ in the underlying prime
>  ring:
>  \bprog
>  ? 0.0 ^ 0
>  %1 = 1
>  ? (1 + O(2^3)) ^ 0
>  %2 = 1
>  ? (1 + O(x)) ^ 0
>  %3 = 1
>  ? Mod(2,4)^0
>  %4 = Mod(1,4)
>  ? Mod(x,x^2)^0
>  %5 = Mod(1, x^2)
>  @eprog\noindent
>  If $x$ is a $p$-adic number, its precision will increase if $v_p(n) > 0$ and
> [...]
> 
> The text was changed in commit c2fac9a1569e2a9adaa9de8763e291c5b0c75e75
> on 2018-09-10. The web page says "version 2.12.1" and the bump to 2.12.1
> was done on 2019-06-04 (commit 81cf67751949bb5e86c3cc26c0b078d32bfdf3df).
> So having the old text is surprising.
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