It's been too long since the last release, given all the new features
(especially the GMPY support).

I think issues 40, 41 and 42 should be fixed first, though. It would also
be nice to include Vinzent's solvers module. Anything else? What parts of
the documentation need to be updated?

Unfortunately, we're running out of version numbers :) I don't have any
definite plans for 1.0, but I'd maybe like to make some fundamental
interface changes before then, and it'd be good to have at least one major
release in between.

I could also just release the current code immediately as 0.8.1 and
postpone 0.9.

Thoughts?

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Square roots are not currently guaranteed to be exact in all cases when
they should be.

The question is whether exactness can be ensured without slowing down the
existing code.

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What about something like this?

def arange(_args):
    """arange([a,] b[, dt]) -> list [a, a + dt, a + 2_dt, ..., b]"""
    if not len(args) <= 3:
        raise TypeError('arange expected at most 3 arguments, got %i' 
                        % len(args))
    if not len(args) >= 1:
        raise TypeError('arange expected at least 1 argument, got %i'
                        % len(args))
    # set default
    a = 0
    dt = 1
    # interpret arguments
    if len(args) == 1:
        b = args[0]
    elif len(args) >= 2:
        a = args[0]
        b = args[1]
    if len(args) == 3:
        dt = args[2]
    a, b, dt = mpf(a), mpf(b), mpf(dt)
    result = []
    i = 0
    t = a
    while 1:
        t = a + dt*i
        i += 1
        if t < b:
            result.append(t)
        else:
            break
    return result

Maybe there should be a warning when dt <= eps.
Small dt are taking forever anyway.
(Sorry for not submitting a patch)

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>>> from mpmath import secant

> > > f = lambda x: (x-1)**100
> > > secant(f, 0)
> > > mpf('0.33989945043882264')
> > > secant(f, 0, 3)
> > > mpf('-4.7331654313260708e-30')
> > > g = lambda x: x**2
> > > secant(g, -2)
> > > mpf('-0.00010708112159826222')
> > > secant(g, -2, 3)
> > > mpf('-0.0003107520198881292')

This is an algorithmical problem inherited from Newton's method, which
converges slowly for multiple roots.

A solution could be adding a modified Newton's method like this:

x_{k+1} = x_k - F(x_k)/F'(x_k) with F(x) = f(x)/f'(x)

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See http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/browse_thread/thread/c2f5936bc59faf24 There are various places where NotImplementedError should be raised instead
of TypeError.

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What steps will reproduce the problem? --------------------------------------

Run the following python code:
# Test Exp function

from mpmath import *
# set precision and rounding

mp.dps = 512
mp.rounding = 'nearest'

print 'Test 1'
z1 = mpc('-1.0', '0.0')
nprint(z1, 17)
z2 = exp(z1)
nprint(z2, 17)

print 'Test 2'
z3 = mpc(-1.0, 0.0)
nprint(z3, 17)
z4 = exp(z3)
nprint(z4, 17)
## What is the expected output?

Test 1
(-1.0 + 0.0j)
(0.36787944117144233 + 0.0j)
Test 2
(-1.0 + 0.0j)
(0.36787944117144233 + 0.0j)
## What do you see instead?

Test 1
(-1.0 + 0.0j)
(2.7182818284590452 + 0.0j)
Test 2
(-1.0 + 0.0j)
(2.7182818284590452 + 0.0j) What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? --------------------------------------------------------------------

Windows XP
Python 2.5.1
mpmath 0.7 Please provide any additional information below. -----------------------------------------------

If I comment out the precision statement: mp.dps = 512
then the returned answer is correct.

mp.dps=64 works OK
mp.dps=80 works OK

Is there some problem with memory allocation?

This bug causes big time havoc.
I'll try a later version of python and see what happens.

Regards
Richard Lyon

Original issue for #73: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=33

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If you agree, please add:

Milestone Priority -ID

into Administration -> Issue Tracking -> Default sorting order:

(of course if you like the result). This is what we have in sympy.

Original issue for #63: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=23

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mpf and mpc are a lot slower than python floats and comlpexes. Sometimes
I'd like to take advantage of all the nice algorithms in mpmath (like
special functions, ODE solvers), but I'd like them to be executing fast
(using python float & complex classes) and I don't mind some rounding errors.

Imho something like

mpf = float
mpc = complex

should be enough, but it needs hooked up in the mpmath somehow.

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After applying the patch in the issue 61 , one test fails:

$ py.test 
# ============================= test process starts

executable:   /usr/bin/python  (2.4.5-candidate-1)
using py lib: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py <rev unknown>

mpmath/tests/test_bitwise.py[8] ........
mpmath/tests/test_compatibility.py[3] F..
mpmath/tests/test_convert.py[7] .......
mpmath/tests/test_diff.py[2] ..
mpmath/tests/test_division.py[6] ......
mpmath/tests/test_functions2.py[3] ...
mpmath/tests/test_hp.py[1] .
mpmath/tests/test_interval.py[2] ..
mpmath/tests/test_mpmath.py[26] ..........................
mpmath/tests/test_power.py[2] ..
mpmath/tests/test_quad.py[9] .........
mpmath/tests/test_rootfinding.py[1] .
mpmath/tests/test_special.py[4] ....
mpmath/tests/test_trig.py[3] ...

---

____________________ entrypoint: test_double_compatibility

---

```
def test_double_compatibility():
    mp.prec = 53
    mp.rounding = 'default'
    for x, y in zip(xs, ys):
        mpx = mpf(x)
        mpy = mpf(y)
        assert mpf(x) == x
        assert (mpx < mpy) == (x < y)
        assert (mpx > mpy) == (x > y)
        assert (mpx == mpy) == (x == y)
        assert (mpx != mpy) == (x != y)
        assert (mpx <= mpy) == (x <= y)
        assert (mpx >= mpy) == (x >= y)
        assert mpx == mpx
        assert mpx + mpy == x + y
        assert mpx * mpy == x * y
```

E           assert mpx / mpy == x / y

> ```
>       assert (mpf('-4.1974624032366689e+117') /
> ```
> 
> mpf('-8.4657370748010221e-47')) == (-4.1974624032366689e+117 /
> -8.4657370748010221e-47)

[/home/ondra/ext/mpmath/mpmath/tests/test_compatibility.py:35]

---
# ============= tests finished: 76 passed, 1 failed in 28.46 seconds

Original issue for #62: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=22

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Referenced issues: #61

What steps will reproduce the problem? >>> from mpmath import mpi

> > > mpi(0,1)**2 What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Expect [0,1].  But the **pow** method doesn't seem to handle 0 in base and
> > > 2 in exponent.  So instead get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/apps/interval.py", line
129, in **pow**
    assert s.a >= 1 and s.b >= 1
AssertionError What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 0.6 on Linux, Python 2.5. Please provide any additional information below. For now I've replaced x*_2 with x_x (luckily just needed integer exponent).
 But presumably this case ought to be handlable using *\* too...

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mpf and mpc should be able to coerce objects that define **float** and
**complex** methods. Special **mpfval** and **mpcval** methods would also
be useful.

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It would be really nice to have sin, cos, tan implemented for interval
arithmetic.  I'm a bit worried about doing this myself with Taylor and
getting all the directional rounding correct...  FYI, Boost seems to
support this; see http://www.boost.org/libs/numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm .

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Powers, in particular, lack correct handling of special numbers.

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Some functions are currently only implemented in mptypes.py. However, all
functions should be implemented in mpmath.lib to provide a complete
functional interface that is independent of the mpf class interface (and
its relatively fragile state-based management of precision and rounding).

Functions currently not implemented in lib include:
- Noninteger powers (real, complex and real->complex)
- Inverse trigonometric / hyperbolic functions
- All the extra functions (gamma, zeta, ...)

More applied code like numerical integration should probably not be moved,
as implementing it functionally will make it significantly more complex.

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Hello, in order to save large amounts of high-precision data,
I need to serialize mpmath numbers. Unfortunately, this fails with an
exception I don't understand, since the method **getstate** seems to be
defined (see below). Converting to and from strings is only a temporary
option, because it is way too slow and wastes space.

Example:

In [2]:import mpmath

In [3]:a = mpmath.mpc(1+2j)

In [4]:a
Out[4]:mpc(real='1.0', imag='2.0')

In [5]:import pickle

In [6]:pickle.dumps(a)

Results in:

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: a class that defines **slots** without
defining **getstate** cannot be pickled What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Python 2.5
mpmath 0.7
on opensuse 10.2

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Sin and cos lose relative accuracy close to zeros other than at x = 0 due
to the precision of the fixed-point arithmetic not being increased. The
implementation should be able to detect when this occurs and adapt accordingly.

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There should be an (optional) function for clamping a number inside a given
exponent range (generating an inf if necessary).

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Mpmath should be able to compute nearly all the functions listed on this
page (which are special cases of the general hypergeometric series which
mpmath now knows how to compute): http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/Built-inFunctions/MathematicalFunctions/HypergeometricRelated/ In many cases implementing a function is simply be a matter of translating
the appropriate formula to code and writing tests to verify that no typo
was made. (It may be necessary to watch out for cancellation effects at
special points).

The 0F1 and 1F1 series converge for all z, but 2F1 only converges for |z| <
1. For functions based on 2F1, variable transformations have to be used, if
they exist at all.

The bigger challenge is to implement 2F1 for arbitrary z. I have looked at
using the two integral representations given on http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HypergeometricFunction.html , but they are
nearly useless: the Euler integral has horrible endpoint singularities that
generally seem to fool the tanh-sinh algorithm, and the Barnes integral
oscillates wildly. Is there a trick to do compute these integrals reliably?

Otherwise, the only method I know of to compute 2F1 is to use a generic ODE
solver to integrate the hypergeometric differential equation (the method is
described in Numerical Recipes). This will be slow, but if it works, it is
better than nothing.

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What steps will reproduce the problem? What is the expected output? What do you see instead? See two examples below

> > > """ Example 1 mpf \* floating point inf """
> > > ' Example 1 mpf \* floating point inf '
> > > mpmath.mpf( '1.2345' ) \* mpmath.mpf( 'inf' )
> > > mpf('+inf')
> > > mpmath.mpf( '1.2345' ) \* float( 'inf' )
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/mptypes.py", line 214, in
> > > **mul**
> > >     return s.binop(t, fmul)
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/mptypes.py", line 196, in binop
> > >     t = mpf_convert_rhs(t)
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/mptypes.py", line 77, in
> > > mpf_convert_rhs
> > >     return make_mpf(from_float(x, 53, round_floor))
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/lib/floatop.py", line 218,
> > > in from_float
> > >     m, e = math.frexp(x)
> > > OverflowError: math range error
> > > 
> > > "Example 2  mpf \* floating point nan"
> > > 'Example 2  mpf \* floating point nan'
> > > mpmath.mpf( '1.2345' ) \* mpmath.mpf( 'nan' )
> > > mpf('nan')
> > > mpmath.mpf( '1.2345' ) \* float( 'nan' )
> > > mpf('0.0') What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 0.6 linux Please provide any additional information below.

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If you are going to implement some stuff for solving linear equations (as
you mentioned in your recent blog post), I could provide working (yet
somewhat messy) code to do the basic stuff like LU decomposition (this
includes solving linear systems and calculating the inverse/determinant
efficiently). Additionally I could share code for solving overdetermined
(and ordinary) linear systems via QR decomposition (LU decomposition is two
times faster, but less accurate).

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The representation should be changed from (man, exp, bc) to (sign, man,
exp, bc). Preliminary tests show that this gives improved performance.
Also, some IEEE 754 features like signed zero can be emulated in a more
natural way.

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Classes that define **slots** need to define also **setstate**,
**getstate** methods for pickling support.

Original issue for #65: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=25

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I dropped "mpmath" into my iterative transformation grapher (itgrapher)
GIMP plugin.  I replaced all occurrences of float() with mpf().  It worked
but it was much slower than "math".

Based on your benchmark data, I expected an improvement in performance just
for dropping it in (on equations that don't overflow with "math" and
therefore don't need the extra precision).  Do I need to explicitly limit
the precision to get those speed gains?

I had turned to mpmath because I had overflows with the exp() operation. 
Prior to porting itgrapher to Python-fu, it was in PERL, where there was no
trouble.  (BTW, thanks for working to make the transition easier!)

So, if I need to limit the precision most of the time, I'm going to need a
way to open in up when needed.  Can I detect overflows and then repeat
operations with higher precision.  Do you raise exceptions and if so what?

I'm using mpmath 0.6 and Python 2.5 and GIMP 2.4

Original issue for #59: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=19

Original author: awspring…@gmail.com

Calculus functions should have a uniform interface for specifying goals,
handling errors, etc. Here is a tentative specification.

Some of the default values could perhaps be turned into settings of the
global context.

List of parameters for calculus functions:

problem parameters
    These parameters specify the mathematical problem to be solved.
Typically the first parameter is a function f and the rest specify some
point a or interval a, b over which f should be integrated, differentiated
etc. May be given either positionally or by keyword.

algorithmic parameters
    Numerical algorithms often require manual tuning to perform optimally
(sometimes to give correct results at all). A typical algorithmic parameter
might for example be an integer n specifying the number of point samples to
use. Most functions try to choose reasonable parameters automatically, but
some may require an educated guess from the user. May be given by keyword only.

Additional keyword options common for all functions:

eps, dps, prec

```
Sets the accuracy goal for the computation (only one of these should be
```

given). The computation is considered finished when the estimated error is
less than eps / accurate to at least dps decimal places / prec bits.

```
Default: automatically set equal to the working precision.
```

metric

```
Specifies which metric to use for measuring error:

• ‘absolute’ – the absolute error must meet the accuracy goal
• ‘relative’ – the relative error must meet the accuracy goal
• ‘either’ – it is sufficient that either the absolute or the
  ```

relative error meets the accuracy goal
\* ‘both’ – both absolute and relative error must meet the
accuracy goal

```
Default: ‘either’
```

workprec, workdps, extraprec, extradps

```
Sets the internal working precision, either as an absolute value or
```

relative to the external working precision. If unspecified, the precision
is automatically set slightly higher (a few digits) than minimally required
to meet the accuracy goal, to guard against typical small rounding errors.
The working precision should be increased manually if rounding errors or
cancellations lead to inaccurate results.

```
Default: typically 3-10 dps, sometimes much higher, depending on the
```

function.

estimate

```
Specifies by which method to determine whether the result meets the
```

accuracy goal:

```

• ‘fast’ – the error is estimated quickly using heuristic
  ```

methods known based on experience to work for typical (reasonably
well-behaved) input.
\* ‘safe’ – the computation is performed twice, the second time
with increased precision and/or slightly tweaked algorithmic parameters.
The error is estimated as twice the difference between the results. At the
cost of increased computation time, this method is very reliable for all
but the most pathological inputs.
\* ‘none’ – no attempt is made to estimate the error. The
specified algorithmic parameters are assumed to result in the desired
accuracy goal.

```
Default: ‘fast’.

Note: for some functions, ‘fast’ and ‘safe’ are identical, because no
```

more efficient heuristic has been implemented for the algorithm.

error

```
This parameter determines how to handle failure:

• ‘raise’ – the result is returned as soon as it meets the
  ```

accuracy goal. Failure to meet the goal with the given algorithmic
parameters results in an exception being raised.
\* ‘none’ – the function silently returns whatever result it
obtains, even when likely to be inaccurate.
\* ‘warn’ – a result is returned regardless of whether it is
fully accurate. A warning is printed if the accuracy goal is not met.
\* ‘return’ – the function returns a tuple (result, err) where
err is the estimated error. Nothing special happens if err is larger than
the epsilon (this is left for the user to handle).

```
Default: ‘raise’.
```

retries

```
In many cases, increasing precision and/or modifying algorithmic
```

parameters slightly can save a computation that fails on the first try. If
set to a positive integer, this number of retries will be performed
automatically.

```
Default: 0-2, depending on the function.
```

verbose

```
If set to any nonzero value, detailed messages about progress and
```

errors are printed while the function is running.

```
Default: False.
```

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lib -> libmpf
lib.ffunction -> libmpf.function
libmpc.mpc_function -> libmpc.function

For example,

  from lib import *
  fadd(x,y,prec)
  fmul(x,y,prec)

becomes:

  import libmpf
  libmpf.add(x,y,prec)
  libmpf.mul(x,y,prec)

This would make parts of the code verbose. However, code that makes
frequent use of e.g. libmpf.add can still simply rebind this function
locally as e.g. fadd.

I think Ondrej would approve?

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>>> x=mpi('100')

> > > sqrt(x)
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > >   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\mpmath\mptypes.py", line 643, in f
> > >     x = convert_lossless(x)
> > >   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\mpmath\mptypes.py", line 196, in
> > > convert_l
> > > ossless
> > >     raise TypeError("cannot create mpf from " + repr(x))
> > > TypeError: cannot create mpf from [100.0, 100.0]
> > > x**.5
> > > [9.9999999999999964473, 10.000000000000003553]

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ondra@fuji:~/ext/mpmath-svn$ python2.4
Python 2.4.5 (#2, Jun 25 2008, 14:11:58) 
[GCC 4.3.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

> > > import mpmath
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > >   File "mpmath/**init**.py", line 5, in ?
> > >     from mptypes import *
> > >   File "mpmath/mptypes.py", line 18, in ?
> > >     from libmpc import *
> > >   File "mpmath/libmpc.py", line 342, in ?
> > >     alpha_crossover = from_float(1.5)
> > >   File "mpmath/lib.py", line 458, in from_float
> > >     return from_man_exp(int(m*(1<<53)), e-53, prec, rnd)
> > >   File "mpmath/lib.py", line 387, in from_man_exp
> > >     return normalize(sign, man, exp, bc, prec, rnd)
> > >   File "mpmath/lib.py", line 282, in _normalize
> > >     t = trailtable[man & 255]
> > > TypeError: list indices must be integers

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_W_function and the code that implements it:

"
import math

def lambertW(x, prec = 1E-12, maxiters = 100):
    w = 0
    for i in range(maxiters):
        we = w \* pow(math.e,w)
        w1e = (w + 1) \* pow(math.e,w)
        if prec > abs((x - we) / w1e):
            return w
        w -= (we - x) / (w1e - (w+2) \* (we-x) / (2*w+2))
    raise ValueError("W doesn't converge fast enough for abs(z) = %f" % abs(x))
"

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Do you think you could copy the latest version to sympy and make sure it
works? There are some problems with the abs (the one in sympy should be
renamed to abs_), see the related issue in sympy for that. I am trying to
fix solvers and matching functions, but numerics problem should also be
fixed before we can release.

Thanks a lot.

Original issue for #42: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=2

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It seems mpfs can be recreated from their string representation at the
default precision. But the conversion can fail at some other levels.

There should be functions in mpmath.lib for translating between decimal and
binary precisions, with different use of guard digits etc.

Original issue for #56: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=16

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I've attached a file that adds gmpy support. The patches are against r498 .

The newly released gmpy v1.03 is required. Testing with mpmath uncovered a
couple of serious bugs in gmpy on 64-bit platforms.

Performance for runtests.py:

mpmath, r498 from svn: 25.3 seconds
with patch, but gmpy not present: 25.7 seconds
with patch, gmpy present: 22.7 seconds

The performance improvements become significant when the precision exceeds
100 digits. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Patches against svn r498 . O/S is Ubuntu 8.04 on Centrino Duo using gmpy
1.03 and a Core2 optimized version of GMP 4.2.2. Please provide any additional information below. I tried to optimize bitcount() and the square root functions but I haven't
done extensive testing.

Original issue for #84: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=44

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/casevh/

I'd like to have something to solve any ODE, where I'd tell it:

I want 15 digits (or 100 digits) and I want them all right.

And the algorithm needs to automatically determine the steps size and the
precision, so that the result is correct to 15 (or 100) digits, whatever I
specify.

Original issue for #71: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=31

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Hiya!

Please find attached my implementation and unit tests for Jacobi Theta and
Elliptic functions, for your consideration for inclusion into mpmath.  I've
implemented a number of unit tests from Abramowitz & Stegun, and Mathworld,
including tests of various identities and special cases.  The tests have
been split into a full blown torture case, named elliptic_torture_tests.py,
and a more modest sampling is given inelliptic_tests.py.  The code
currently passes all of the tests.

Note that I've chosen to use the parameter k, rather than m, used by the
current mpmath.ellipk function.  This is mostly for ease of implementation
and testing, as the series expansions in Abramowitz are in terms of k.

This has had one look from Fredrik Johansson, and I've attempted to make
the initial changes he suggested.  Please let me know if you want me to
make more changes, or feel free to go ahead and modify it for inclusion in
mpmath.  The code is free to release under BSD, and I am authorized to
release it.  

Finally, please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. 
I'll try to watch the mailing list, but please send me an e-mail to get my
attention if I don't respond fast enough.  

Thanks,

Mike Taschuk

Original issue for #79: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=39

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/110354057086964594182/

What steps will reproduce the problem? The following test fails:

from mpmath import *

N = 10000
for dps in [15, 30, 50, 75, 100, 200]:
  for i in range(-N, N):
     a = 2_i_pi/N
     e = exp(j*a)
     assert e.imag == sin(a) and e.real == cos(a)

In Python this test passes

from cmath import exp
from math import cos, sin, pi
N = 10000
for i in range(-N, N):
   a = 2_i_pi/N
   e = exp(1j*a)
   assert e.imag == sin(a) and e.real == cos(a) What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? mpmath rev.415,  686 GNU/Linux

To fix this one can write

def fcexp(a, b, prec, rounding):
    if a == fzero:
        return cos_sin(b, prec, rounding)
    # continue as before

---

Currently sin(a) calls cos_sin, which computes both sin(a) and cos(a),
using the Taylor expansion of sin and computing cos with a square root.
At low precisions it is faster to compute sin(a) using only one
taylor expansion; in the attached file there is an implementation.
To satisfy the identities
exp(j_a).real == cos(a); exp(j_a).imag == sin(a)
the working precision has been increased; in fact the result
of computing cos(a) with a square root (in cos_sin, called by fcexp)
must be equal at the _mpf_ level to cos(a) computed with a Taylor expansion;
trying the above example for dps in [15, 30, 50, 75, 100, 200]
the minimum extra precision to pass this test turns out
to be 7 on my computer.

On my computer (686 GNU/Linux) the speed-up is around
30% for dps < 30,  10% for dps = 200.

Original issue for #68: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=28

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/107755593449647463741/

Two imports use the style "from mpmath.lib import ..". This prevents
importing as sympy.thirdparty.mpmath. Could you please change them?

They are in specfun.py at line 611, 612.

Sebastian

Original issue for #78: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=38

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/110678006332178633459/

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. running 'python runtests.py'
2. a call to mpmath.gamma(mpmath.mpf('0.25')) 3. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Failing test output is attached.

The call to the gamma function should return a number.  Current output is a
list index out of range error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mpmath/specfun.py", line 239, in gamma
    prec, a, c = _get_spouge_coefficients(mp.prec + 8)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mpmath/specfun.py", line 170, in
_get_spouge_coefficients
    coefs = _calc_spouge_coefficients(a, prec)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mpmath/specfun.py", line 144, in
_calc_spouge_coefficients
    c[k] = _fix(((-1)**(k-1) \* (a-k)**k) \* b / sqrt(a-k), prec)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mpmath/mptypes.py", line 372, in
__rmul__
    r._mpf_ = fmuli(s._mpf_, t, g_prec, g_rounding)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mpmath/lib.py", line 587, in fmuli
    else:      bc += bctable[man>>bc]
IndexError: list index out of range What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? mpmath-0.7, on Debian Linux (2.6.22-3-amd64 #1 SMP) Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue for #66: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=26

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/110354057086964594182/

Actual output with mpmath 0.5 using python 2.5 compiled from release:

> > > a = "2.76"
> > > b = u"2.76"
> > > mpf( a )
> > > mpf('2.7599999999999998')
> > > mpf( b )
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/mpmath.py", line 146, in
> > > **new**
> > >     return +convert_lossless(val)
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/mpmath.py", line 36, in
> > > convert_lossless
> > >     raise TypeError("cannot create mpf from " + repr(x))
> > > TypeError: cannot create mpf from u'2.76'
> > > What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Expected behavior is to be identical to python primitives e.g.
> > > 
> > > float( "2.76" )
> > > 2.7599999999999998
> > > float( u"2.76" )
> > > 2.7599999999999998

Original issue for #43: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=3

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/110030153462670186063/

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. let n = an integer
2. call polyroots([n])

Error from Issue 876, sympy : http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=876 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/ondra/sympy/<ipython console> in <module>()

/home/ondra/sympy/sympy/thirdparty/mpmath/calculus.py in polyroots(coeffs, 
maxsteps,
cleanup, extraprec, error)
    252         err = [mpf(1) for n in range(deg)]
    253         for step in range(maxsteps):
--> 254             if max(err).ae(0):
    255                 break
    256             for i in range(deg): What is the expected output? What do you see instead? if n == 0
probably an error.
if n != 0
empty list, [] What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? svn trunk, linux Please provide any additional information below. I assumed that polyroots([0]) should throw a ValueError since 0 == 0 is a 
tautology. polyroots([n]) for n != 0 will give [], since there are no 
roots.

Original issue for #85: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=45

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/112859157854744488476/

The attached patch makes the tests work on linux. This works now (but
didn't before):

$ cd mpmath
$ py.test
[...]

I can apply it myself, but I want you to check it first. How do you execute
tests?

Original issue for #61: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=21

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/104039945248245758823/

Available in math or cmath:
log10
degrees
radians
frexp
pow (perhaps named differently to avoid mixup with the builtin)
modf
fabs

Some other functions that could be useful:
ln (just an alias for log)
cbrt (cube root)
nthroot for x^(1/n), maybe powpq(x,p,q) for x^(p/q)
sind or sindg, cosd, etc for trigonometric functions with degree arguments
round (perhaps named differently to avoid mixup with the builtin)

More:
List of functions in SciPy: http://www.scipy.org/SciPyPackages/Special List of functions in Matlab: http://tinyurl.com/6eq8vd

Original issue for #87: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=47

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/111502149103757882156/

Polynomial evaluation (with derivative) and polynomial root-finding should
be implemented.

Most of the code already exists in sympy.numerics.

Original issue for #49: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=9

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For improved efficiency, complex multiplication and division should be
implemented using integers instead of creating temporary float values.
These operations should also be done losslessly or at least nearly losslessly.

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$ ./setup.py install  
./setup.py: line 1: from: command not found  
: command not found  
'/setup.py: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `name='mpmath',
'/setup.py: line 3:`setup(name='mpmath',  
$ python setup.py install
running install  
running build  
running build_py 
[...]                               

This is trivial, simple #!python in the first line would do the job.

Original issue for #77: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=37

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/[email protected]/

The order of coefficients used by polyval, polyroots etc should be reversed
for consistency with scipy.

Original issue for #81: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=41

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I think mpmath should use a Decimal like interface, so that just
substituting Decimal for "mpf" should do the job. I think it already
basically has the same interface, right? In this case, maybe it could be
written on the front page, that just substituting Decimal for mpf you get
10x speedup, for free.

Original issue for #41: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=1

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See http://wiki.sympy.org/wiki/Generic_interface As a first step, the attached patch makes an attempt to separate the
dependency on the class hierarchy in the way mathematical properties are
checked for, by replacing isinstance() calls with property checks. The
.func property is also made to work for all objects, and used to check for
exp and log.

Theoretically, using properties should be faster than calling isinstance,
but it might not be so in practice, due to traversal of the class hierarchy
to look up properties (this can be fixed). I did not do any detailed
timings, but I know that the tests ran in ~70 seconds before I started
making changes, and in ~70 seconds after, so this certainly doesn't cause
any major slowdowns.

As usual when sweeping over so much code, I noticed lots of (mostly minor)
bugs and oddities.

I had to do the substitutions manually, as there is quite a lot of code in
SymPy that mixes Basic and non-Basic instances. This is something that
should generally be avoided, unless it is clearly commented (much of the
time it is probably unintended).

In particular, there is a lot of code that looks like

```
if isinstance(x, Symbol):
    do_stuff_once(x)
else:
    do_stuff_repeatedly(x)
```

whereas the following would be clearer and less error-prone:

```
if type(x) is tuple:
    do_repeated_stuff(x)
x = sympify(x)
if x.is_Symbol:
    do_symbolic_stuff(x)
raise ValueError
```

I think the fact that

```
isinstance(<non basic object>, <BasicSubclass>)
```

stops working when removing the isinstance idiom is an advantage, as it
stops non-sympified objects from silently falling through and causing
trouble far away from where they first appeared.

In re, im, the following idiom is used:

```
if not arg.is_Add:
    term_list = [arg]

if isinstance(arg, Basic):
    term_list = arg.args
```

This idiom also occurs in one place in integrals.py
and in basic.py. Is there a reason why this is not written as

```
if arg.is_Add:
    term_list = arg.args
else:
    term_list = [arg]
```

?

I removed the test 'RandomString': 'RandomString' from test_sqrtdenest; it
seems nonsensical to just let invalid input slip through instead of raising
an exception.

Some Function subclasses call sympify inside canonize() while others don't.
But sympify is always called in Function.**new** before canonize gets
called, so this shouldn't be necessary. I think I fixed most cases of this.

I noticed that max_ and min_ were broken because their canonize methods
were not defined as classmethods; this has been fixed.

One file contained mixed space/tab indentations, causing me some debugging
headache (my editor shows tabs as 4 spaces). Please use spaces everywhere!

Next step might be to replace instances of "x is S.obj" with x.is_obj. (In
many cases, where several singletons are checked for (as in some canonize
methods), it would be even better to use a table lookup).

Original issue for #67: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=27

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/111502149103757882156/

What steps will reproduce the problem? What is the expected output? What do you see instead? See two examples below

> > > """ Example 1 mpf \* floating point inf """
> > > ' Example 1 mpf \* floating point inf '
> > > mpmath.mpf( '1.2345' ) \* mpmath.mpf( 'inf' )
> > > mpf('+inf')
> > > mpmath.mpf( '1.2345' ) \* float( 'inf' )
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/mptypes.py", line 214, in
> > > **mul**
> > >     return s.binop(t, fmul)
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/mptypes.py", line 196, in binop
> > >     t = mpf_convert_rhs(t)
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/mptypes.py", line 77, in
> > > mpf_convert_rhs
> > >     return make_mpf(from_float(x, 53, round_floor))
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpmath/lib/floatop.py", line 218,
> > > in from_float
> > >     m, e = math.frexp(x)
> > > OverflowError: math range error
> > > 
> > > "Example 2  mpf \* floating point nan"
> > > 'Example 2  mpf \* floating point nan'
> > > mpmath.mpf( '1.2345' ) \* mpmath.mpf( 'nan' )
> > > mpf('nan')
> > > mpmath.mpf( '1.2345' ) \* float( 'nan' )
> > > mpf('0.0') What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 0.6 linux Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue for #44: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=4

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The bisection and secant root-finding functions from sympy.numerics should
be implemented.

Original issue for #50: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=10

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In the first attached file there is a patch with trivial changes
which speed-up diffc and TS_node.
diffc is 10% faster
In TS_node ldexp has been used when possible; in the example
  4_quadts(lambda x: sqrt(1-x_*2), 0, 1)
the first evaluation is on my computer
15% faster for dps < 50, 10% for dps = 100, t% for dps = 200

In the second attached file there is another modification for
TS_node, which saves the computation of an exponential;
in the above example it gives speed-up,
35% for dps < 100, 40% per dps = 200
Also this modification passes runtests.py, but it might have
some precision problems; comments are welcome.

Original issue for #69: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=29

Original author: https://code.google.com/u/107755593449647463741/

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Let's port all things from sympy/numerics to mpmath. Let's only close this
issue when everything is ported.

We'll then remove sympy/numerics from sympy and will just use mpmath for
everything that doesn't need symbolic manipulation.

Original issue for #64: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=24

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