LOOPS is a package for GAP4 whose purpose is to:
We assume that you have GAP 4.4 or newer installed on your computer. Download the LOOPS package from the distribution website
and unpack the downloaded file into the pkg
subfolder of your GAP folder.
After this step, there should be a subfolder loops
in your pkg
folder. The
package LOOPS can then be loaded to GAP anytime by calling
LoadPackage("loops");If you wish to load LOOPS automatically while starting GAP, open the file
loops/PackageInfo.g
, and change Autoload:=false
to
Autoload:=true
in the file.
The documentation is available is several formats: TeX, pdf, dvi, pdf, html, and as an online help in GAP. All these formats have been obtained directly from the master TeX documentation file. Consequently, the different formats of the documentation differ only in their appearance, not in contents.
The documentation can be found in the doc
folder of LOOPS and also at the
LOOPS distribution website.
The online GAP help is available upon installing LOOPS, and can be
accessed in the usual way, i.e., upon typing ?
command, GAP displays the
section of the LOOPS manual containing information about command.
Test files conforming to the GAP standards are provided for LOOPS. They
can be found in the folder tst
and run in the usual way.
The file testall.g
runs all tests for LOOPS with the exception of the test
mouflib.tst
. The test mouflib.tst
builds all Moufang loops contained in the
library of LOOPS, and runs for about 10 minutes.
We welcome all comments and suggestions on LOOPS, especially those concerning the future development of the package. You can contact us by e-mail.
loops manual