PARI's commands

[kar_bon]

Look here for examples of cycles.

Why don't you read the links i gave in post #1411?

[science_man_88]

I looked all of them over, I have no care to look over 1000's of threads to find any values to check i have no idea what to do obviously, so I'm of no use regardless.

[kar_bon]

That's how I would and do it:

- read more about the problem to understand things like input, output, exceptions
- try an example by hand/calculator to verify if I understand the problem correct and check against other examples found somewhere
- try to find a simple algorithm in the computer language I want to use: datatypes, a simple flow chart, ignoring for first exceptions but only run and give a result
- write the program
- testing the program with my own examples and verify against others
- try to cover the exceptions
- testing again
- optimize (if needed/wanted) the code
- testing again
- in all steps, documenting is essential
-> after all this is done, realease the code/program to others, let them test, too
-> final release

Finding the algorithm and code is the least part of all.
Exceptions or misuse/false inputs are quite more.
The most time is testing and find the limits of the code, emilminate those errors a user can cause and the documentation.

[science_man_88]

inputs are n the number to find the sequence to: the only failure in my code is not checking over v.

[science_man_88]

...for(y=1,#v-1,if(d==v[y] || d==1,break(3)))...

is the best thing I can think of lol to replace it with

and I still now get about the temp directory error:

sigma: couldn't find a suitable name for a tempdir (MPQS).

[CRGreathouse]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

and I still now get about the temp directory error:

sigma: couldn't find a suitable name for a tempdir (MPQS).

This is clearly a problem in the factoring system. Looking through the source I can see that the message is printed by pari_unique_dir when none of the 600+ temporary directory names it tries to make can be created (for example, they already exist).

This function is called only in the MPQS initialization (mpqs_i).

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by CRGreathouse

This is clearly a problem in the factoring system. Looking through the source I can see that the message is printed by pari_unique_dir when none of the 600+ temporary directory names it tries to make can be created (for example, they already exist).

This function is called only in the MPQS initialization (mpqs_i).

think it's because for some reason i can't write a new file to my main drive at least one level down lol

[science_man_88]

I get the error below:

[CRGreathouse]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

think it's because for some reason i can't write a new file to my main drive at least one level down lol

Well, until you fix that problem you're not going to be able to use MPQS in Pari, since that requires the creation of temportary files and folders.

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by CRGreathouse

Well, until you fix that problem you're not going to be able to use MPQS in Pari, since that requires the creation of temportary files and folders.

is it not possible to get it to write to my portables ? all of them work well last I checked.

[CRGreathouse]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

is it not possible to get it to write to my portables ? all of them work well last I checked.

Hmm. It looks like you could make it work if you changed the environment variable "TEMP" to point to your portable drive, it would work. You *may* be able to do this:

@echo off
REM ************************************************
REM *  Put this in a file called pari.bat          *
REM *  Change F:\ to your portable's drive letter  *
REM *  Change C:\Program... as needed              *
REM ************************************************
set TEMP=F:\tmp
cd "C:\Program Files\PARI"
gp

but I'm not at a Windows machine at the moment so I can't test it.