Re: [Maxima-discuss] A package for working with p-adic numbers

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2019-08-08, José A  Vallejo Rodríguez <jos...@gm...> wrote:

> As far as I know, currently Maxima does not have built-in functions for
> doing p-adic arithmetic. Here is a small package for that, just in case
> someone has interest in it:
> https://github.com/josanvallejo/padics

Looks great, thanks a lot for working on it. I have forked it on Github
and made some changes, mostly renaming padicfoo to padic_foo and so on.
You can see the whole list of changes here:
https://github.com/josanvallejo/padics/compare/master...robert-dodier:master

I'll submit a pull request to josanvallejo/padics but since I've changed
the names of functions, I would like to update the documentation first.
Can you commit the original TeX source? I think it's a good idea
in general to include the document source as well as the finished
output. I will be glad to change the names in the document if I can edit
the TeX file.

Other basic tasks are to create a test script and to create
documentation which can be accessed in a Maxima session via ?. For a
test script, it would be easy to just extract all the examples in the
document. For on-line documentation, I guess that to start it's enough
to just list all the functions and a very brief mention of the purpose
of each one. Note that share/template-standalone.texi can be a template
for such documentation.

Github is a great system for collaboration, I hope others will be
inspired to create their own projects. I'll put in a shameless promotion
for something I started:
https://github.com/maxima-project-on-github/maxima-packages

Keep up the good work,

Robert Dodier