| 1 | Singular version 1.0 |
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| 2 | University of Kaiserslautern |
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| 3 | Department of Mathematics Centre for Computer Algebra |
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| 4 | Authors: G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann |
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| 5 | (C) 1986-1997 All Rights Reserved |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | README FILE FOR SINGULAR KERNEL |
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| 8 | =============================== |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | This directory contains the source files for the Singular kernel and |
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| 11 | the following subdirectories: |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | 'doc' -- contains sources for Singular documentation files |
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| 14 | 'check' -- contains a small Singular self-test |
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| 15 | 'LIB' -- contains Singular libraries written in Singular's |
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| 16 | programming language |
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| 17 | |
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| 18 | See the following files in this directory |
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| 19 | 'INSTALL' -- for information on how to install Singular |
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| 20 | 'COPYING' -- for copying and licence information |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | See below for an overview of Singular, and for distribution and |
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| 23 | support information. |
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| 25 | If you receive this file as part of a complete Singular distribution, |
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| 26 | see also the README, COPYING, and INSTALL files contained in the top |
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| 27 | directory of the full Singular distribution. |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | Overview of Singular |
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| 31 | ==================== |
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| 32 | Singular is a special-purpose computer algebra system for commutative |
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| 33 | algebra and algebraic geometry. The main features of Singular are: |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | * Computations in very general rings (polynomial rings, localizations |
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| 36 | of rings at a prime ideal, tensor products of rings) over many |
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| 37 | ground fields (rational numbers, mod p numbers, Galois fields, |
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| 38 | transcendental/algebraic extensions) and monomial orderings (all |
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| 39 | standard monomial orderings, including matrix orderings) |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | * Very fast standard (resp. Groebner) bases computations |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | * Polynomial factorization, resultant, and gcd computations |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | * Large variety of implemented related algortihm: FGLM, |
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| 46 | Hilbert-driven, Factorizing Buchberger; Minimal resolutions, |
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| 47 | Primary decomposition; Usual ideal theoretic operations; standard |
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| 48 | combinatorial algortihms. |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | * Effficient and flexible communication links based on the MP |
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| 51 | protocol and library |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | * Easy-to-use, command-driven user-interface |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | * Intuitive, C-like programming language |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | * Extensive libraries of procedures, written in Singular'S |
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| 58 | programming language |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | * Written in C/C++. Available as source and binary for some hard- and |
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| 61 | software platforms (including most Un*x variants, MS-DOG, MacOS) |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | |
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| 64 | Distribution of Singular |
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| 65 | ======================== |
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| 66 | The newest version of Singular is always available by anonymous ftp |
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| 67 | from |
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| 68 | www.mathematik.uni-kl.de:/pub/Math/Singular |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | Binary versions of Singular for some common hard- and software |
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| 71 | platforms are contained in the files Singular-1.0.<platform>.gz where |
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| 72 | <platform> is, for example, 'linux', 'SunOS', etc. See the file |
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| 73 | README.bin for more information about the distribution of Singular |
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| 74 | binaries. |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | The source code of Singular is distributed in two versions: |
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| 77 | 1. A full source distribution of Singular is contained in |
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| 78 | Singular-full-1.0.tar.gz. This (gzip'ed and tar'ed) file |
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| 79 | contains the source code, documentation, and supporting data |
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| 80 | files for the Singular kernel, and for all add-on packages, |
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| 81 | i.e. for the GMP, MP, Factory, and Libfac libraries. |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | 2. A kernel source distribution of Singular can be found in |
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| 84 | Singular-1.0.tar.gz This (gzip'ed and tar'ed) contains the |
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| 85 | sources, documentation and supporting data files for Singular, |
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| 86 | only, i.e., it comes WITHOUT the sources for any of the add-on |
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| 87 | packages. |
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| 88 | See the file README.src for further information on the distribution of |
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| 89 | Singular sources. |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | Documentation to Singular is distributed as: |
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| 92 | Singular-1.0.dvi.gz - Reference manual in dvi format |
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| 93 | Tutorial.dvi.gz - Singular tutorial in dvi format |
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| 94 | Singular-1.0.ps.gz - Reference manual in postscript format |
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| 95 | Tutorial.dvi.gz - Singular tutorial in postscript format |
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| 96 | singular.hlp.gz - Reference manual in Info format |
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| 97 | Singular-1.0.html.tar.gz - Reference manual in html format |
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| 98 | See the file README.doc for further information on the distribution of |
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| 99 | Singular documentation. |
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| 100 | |
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| 101 | Libraries written in Singular's programming language are contained in |
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| 102 | the file Singular-1.0.LIB.tar.gz. |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | More information about Singular: Comments, Questions, Bug Reports |
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| 106 | ================================================================= |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | More and up-to-date information about Singular is always available |
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| 109 | from |
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| 110 | http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwzca/Singular |
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| 111 | We very much welcome any comments, questions, and bug reports. Please |
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| 112 | contact us at |
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| 113 | singular@mathematik.uni-kl.de |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | GOOD LUCK and ENJOY! Your Singular team. |
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