ratpoints: Find rational points on hyperelliptic curves

Description

Michael Stoll’s program which searches for rational points on hyperelliptic curves.

NOTE: the ratpoints package has been assimilated by PARI/GP. Therefore, this package (as Sage package) is deprecated. In the future, it will be removed from Sage.

Upstream Contact

• Author: Michael Stoll

• Email: Michael.Stoll@uni-bayreuth.de

• Website: http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/stoll/programs/

Dependencies

• GMP/MPIR

• (GNU) patch

Special Update/Build Instructions

Note on SSE2 instructions

• On several architectures, the SSE2 instructions used by ratpoints cause compiler errors. In the case that ratpoints fails to build with SSE2 instructions enabled, the build is repeated with SSE2 disabled.

Type

standard

Version Information

package-version.txt:

2.1.3.p5

Equivalent System Packages

arch:

$ sudo pacman -S  ratpoints

conda:

$ conda install ratpoints

Debian/Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install  ratpoints

nix:

$ nix-env --install ratpoints

See https://repology.org/project/ratpoints/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because spkg-configure.m4 has not been written for this package; see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27330